Ongoing
Project description
PortForward will attempt to address important challenges that today’s ports are facing, in order to take a substantial step towards the Port of the Future. More specifically the following needs are addressed:
- Lack of efficiency in operations with heterogeneous freights (roll-on/roll-off cargo, containers), such as inefficient land use, berth scheduling and quay crane allocation, quay crane scheduling and bay sequencing, yard con-figuration and stacking policies, and lack of monitoring of the depth of access channels and quays, which varies due to silting
- Need for real time monitoring of freight flows through the use of end-to-end track-and-trace solutions in order to optimize port activities.
- Need for remote monitoring and management of important port operations, such as maintenance scheduling, cargo and passenger traffic, especially for short sea shipping cases
- Interconnection with hinterland transportation with special focus on inland waterways
- Interface with the surrounding urban environment
- Experience sharing and transferability to other intermodal transport hubs (ports, airports, etc.)
- Environmental impact reduction through the use of green technologies and energy solutions saving
Professor Mansouri, as Brunel’s PI, will be leading a work package on Green Scheduling and Sustainability of Operations for the development of a novel green yard scheduler (GYS) for yard operations as a core component of the PortForward decision support system (DSS) to enhance environmental sustainability of port operations in close collaboration with the port of Vigo and LeiTaT from Spain.