Agent Technology supports Inter-Organizational Planning in the Port
2005-06-07
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The Port of Rotterdam is a key container transshipment hub for Europe. Inland container shipping is important to connect the hinterland (40% market share). Barges visit several terminals per round-trip through the Port, thus requiring a proper planning support – to avoid planning problems such as double-bookings. A pilot version of an inter-organizational system has been build, titled APPROACH. This paper describes an industry workshop where a gamesetting was used to evaluate the current manual planning practices with the APPROACH outcome – and delivered interesting findings; both for actual implementation of the system as well as it unveiled issues for further research.
Keywords
- industry application
- agent technology
- Port of Rotterdam
- inter-organizational systems (IOS)
- supply chain management (SCM)
Classifications using
Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) Classification System
- L92 : Railroads and Other Surface Transportation: Autos, Buses, Trucks, and Water Carriers; Ports
- M : Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting
- R4 : Transportation Systems
- M11 : Production Management
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- barge
- planning
- system
- approach
- operator
- workshop
- rotation
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- container
- barge operators
- approach pilot system
- research
- rotterdam
- agent
- container terminals
- result
- problem
- visit
- inter-organizational planning
