Name: AMABILE CUCCO DE CARLI
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 28/06/2022
Advisor:
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| RODRIGO DE ALVARENGA ROSA | Advisor * |
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| RODRIGO DE ALVARENGA ROSA | Advisor * |
Summary: Retail companies have been looking for new transport alternatives for delivering cargo
within cities in order to reduce their transport costs. In the context of cities that have
waterway, maritime, or river connections, the integration of waterway transport with
land transport is an interesting alternative, since restrictions on access to trucks have
become increasingly present in urban centers. Therefore, this dissertation proposes
an integrated cargo distribution strategy combining waterway and land transport. The
use of public passenger Waterway Terminal infrastructure is considered to also receive
cargo ships and, in parallel, generate alternative revenue for the State. Data from the
municipalities of Vitória, Cariacica, and Vila Velha were chosen to test the proposed
model since the government of the State of Espírito Santo (ES) is implementing a
waterway passenger transport system between these three municipalities. To plan the
two types of transport in an integrated way, a mathematical model inspired by the Twoechelon
Capacitated Routing Problem (2E-CVRP) was created, considering a two-step
distribution, multiple trips, time window, and access restriction. The first stage refers to
waterway transport, which includes ships traveling between the Cargo Consolidation
Center (CCC) and Waterway Terminals. The second stage, which is carried out by
land vehicles, such as bicycles and motorcycles, concerns the route between the
Waterway Terminals and the final customers. To solve the model, CPLEX 12.20 was
used and the results indicated that the use of Waterway Terminals is a functional
strategy and presents better results when integrated with the terrestrial fleet of bicycles
with multiple trips. In addition, it was found that having a greater number of points for
berthing ships, that is, greater availability of more Waterway Terminals, reduced the
transportation costs by up to 6%.
Keywords: City logistics. Waterway transportation. Multimodality. Two-echelon
Capacitated Routing Problem.
