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The Role of Digital Twins on Rail Operations at EU Container Terminals : Crucial or Negligible?
Brüll, Linus (2024) The Role of Digital Twins on Rail Operations at EU Container Terminals : Crucial or Negligible?
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| Abstract: | In the course of the past decade, climate change has become an increasingly urgent and popular topic. Making up a significant portion of the EU’s gas emissions, the EU logistics sector is pushed to make a drastic modal shift from truck transport to the more efficient rail transport in order to achieve the EU’s climate goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This paper found, that the implementation of a digital twin is effective enough to catalyse a hinterland terminal’s rail performance to meet current climate target such as a 28,57% increase of transport until 2025. However, its impact is overshadowed by infrastructural and political issues persistent in the EU i.e. the invasion of Ukraine or the lackluster railway infrastructure, which make up the greatest bottlenecks, hindering rail from reaching the popularity of truck and inland waterways transport. Furthermore, digital twins are found useful as long as they can ameliorating significant processes such as wagon planning and container handling, but have many more future use cases, that are currently still too expensive or complex to implement. For instance, seamless geotracking through an open data exchange across the entire supply chain and the full automation of container planning via a digital twin simulation |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | EEMCS: Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science |
| Subject: | 54 computer science |
| Programme: | Business & IT BSc (56066) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/101161 |
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