Assessment of the Hunter Valley coal export supply chain

We develop a decision support tool that assesses the throughput of a coal export supply chain for a given level of demand. The tool can be used to rapidly evaluate a number of infrastructures for several future demand scenarios in order to identify a few that should be investigated more thoroughly using a detailed simulation model. To make the natural model computationally tractable, we exploit problem structure to reduce the model size, and we employ aggregation as well as disaggregation to strengthen the structure of model. We use the tool in a computational study in which we analyze system performance for different levels of demand to identify potential bottlenecks.

• Record URL:
  http://sydney.edu.au/business/itls/research/publications/working_papers
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Sydney. Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies

  University of Sydney, 144 Burren Street, Newtown, New South Wales, 2042, Australia
  Sydney, New South Wales   
• Authors:
  • Boland, M
  • Reisi, M
  • Savelsbergh, M
• Publication Date: 2017-3

Media Info

• Pagination: 24p
• Serial:
  • Issue Number: ITLS-WP-17-06

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bottlenecks; Coal; Decision support systems; Freight transportation; Logistics; Mathematical models; Software; Trade
• Uncontrolled Terms: Freight transport logistics
• Geographic Terms: New South Wales
• ATRI Terms: Bottleneck; Coal; Decision support; Freight transport; Logistics; Modelling; Trade
• ITRD Terms: 2248: Decision process; 1112: Freight transport
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Geotechnology; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01632516
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 24 2017 10:12AM