Urban Logistics Facilities
- Modeling approach: Discrete-event and agent-based
- Performance criterion: Analysis of different consolidation and cost allocation methods for intra-logistics and urban distribution.
Simulation of automated hinterland container terminals
- Modeling approach: Discrete-event and agent-based
- Performance criterion: Analysis of different terminal layouts regarding capacity requirements and throughput times.
Green City Supply – Sustainable integration of rail freight transport into urban logistics concepts
- Modeling approach: Discrete-event and agent-based
- Performance criterion: Comparison of unimodal road freight transport and intermodal freight transport. Evaluation regarding transport costs, traffic volume and traffic emissions
Simulation-based analysis of a load-oriented driving ban in Darmstadt
- Modeling approach: Discrete-event and agent-based
- Performance criterion: Analysis of different control strategies for a truck drive-through ban in Darmstadt. Evaluation regarding transport costs per company type, vehicle use, traffic volume and emissions
- Modeling approach: Discrete-event and agent-based
- Performance criterion: Logistics and production key performance indicators of various postponement scenarios, robustness of the scenarios against fluctuations in demand, variable sales forecast quality, lot sizes and set-up times
Simulation-based study on storage location assignment strategies in airfreight handling
- Modeling approach: Agent-based
- Performance criterion: Effects of dynamic storage location assignment on process times, required storage areas and number of forklifts.
Simulation-based study on storage location assignment strategies in airfreight handling
- Modeling approach: Agent-based
- Performance criterion: Effects of dynamic storage location assignment on process times, required storage areas and number of forklifts.
Simulation-based study on storage location assignment strategies in airfreight handling
- Modeling approach: Agent-based
- Performance criterion: Effects of dynamic storage location assignment on process times, required storage areas and number of forklifts.
Picker blocking in the manual order picking process
- Modeling approach: Agent-based
- Performance criterion: Cycle time of order picking
GenesisKV – Business development for non-cranable semi-trailers with innovative systems in combined transport
- Modeling approach: Agent-based
- Performance criterion: Break-even calculation for the investment decision for transshipment equipment for non-cranable semi-trailers
InterSim – Interdisciplinary Simulation for Case Study Based Teaching
- Modeling approach: Discrete-event and agent-based
- Performance criterion: Shipping and inventory costs of different delivery strategies in the automotive supply chain
KRITIS – Cooperation for the protection of critical infrastructures
- Modeling approach: Discrete-event and agent-based
- Performance criterion: Simulation of communication and infromation exchange processes
Logistics und Transport Manager
- Modeling approach: Discrete-event
- Performance criterion: Identification of bottlenecks in the warehouse, which have a negative influence on the performance (service and cost)
Layout design for production and warehouse buildings on a green-field production site
- Modeling approach: Discrete-event and agent-based
- Performance criterion: Efficient material flow for a green-field production site under the consideration of production-specific conditions
Material flow analysis for a production line on a green-field production site
- Modeling approach: Discrete-event and agent-based
- Performance criterion: Efficient material flow for a green-field production site under the consideration of production specifications and aims
Overbooking in intermodal transportation
- Modeling approach: Agent-based
- Performance criterion: Impact of different overbooking strategies on revenue, profit, and service level
ProSee Rhein-Main – Analysis to increase process efficiency in rail-bound hinterland traffic
- Modeling approach: Discrete-event and agent-based
- Performance criterion: Impact of changes in the order process of the maritime transport chain
Simulation-based study on storage location assignment strategies in airfreight handling
- Modeling approach: Agent-based
- Performance criterion: Effects of dynamic storage location assignment on process times, required storage areas and number of forklifts.
Delivery Time Windows for Road Freight Carriers and Forwarders
- Modeling approach: Agent-based
- Performance criterion: Additional costs for the operation of time slot management systems
CSSP – Commen Seawater Supply Pipeline
- Modeling approach: Discrete-event and agent-based
- Performance criterion: Impact of global and local uncertain input factors on the service level of a transportation network in a developing country
VESUHV – Improving data flow along the maritime transport chain in rail-bound hinterland traffic
- Modeling approach: Agent-based
- Performance criterion: Capacity utilization of the import rail-bound maritime transport chain
MitKV – Market potential for innovative transshipment technologies for combined transport
- Modeling approach: System-dynamics
- Performance criterion: Modal shift potential for non-cranable semi-trailers in combined transport