The paper proposes a metamodelling procedure devoted to provide a reference model to be used by decision makers in the performance evaluation of Intermodal Transportation Network (ITN). In order to obtain a generic model describing a nonspecific ITN from the structural and behavioural point of view, the metamodelling approach consists in applying a top down and modular procedure. The model is specified by the well known Unified Modelling Language (UML), a graphic and textual modelling formalism intended to describe systems from structural and dynamics viewpoints. Hence, the paper models a generic ITN starting from the network description and shows by a case study the metamodel of one of the most important nodes that compose it: the port subsystem. Moreover, the case study model is translated in a simulation software and the performance measures obtained by the simulation results are shown.

A metamodelling approach for performance evaluation of intermodal transportation networks / Boschian, Valentina; Dotoli, Mariagrazia; Fanti, Maria Pia; Iacobellis, Giorgio; Ukovich, Walter. - In: EUROPEAN TRANSPORT/TRASPORTI EUROPEI. - ISSN 1825-3997. - STAMPA. - 46:(2010), pp. 100-113.

A metamodelling approach for performance evaluation of intermodal transportation networks

Mariagrazia Dotoli;Maria Pia Fanti;Giorgio Iacobellis;
2010-01-01

Abstract

The paper proposes a metamodelling procedure devoted to provide a reference model to be used by decision makers in the performance evaluation of Intermodal Transportation Network (ITN). In order to obtain a generic model describing a nonspecific ITN from the structural and behavioural point of view, the metamodelling approach consists in applying a top down and modular procedure. The model is specified by the well known Unified Modelling Language (UML), a graphic and textual modelling formalism intended to describe systems from structural and dynamics viewpoints. Hence, the paper models a generic ITN starting from the network description and shows by a case study the metamodel of one of the most important nodes that compose it: the port subsystem. Moreover, the case study model is translated in a simulation software and the performance measures obtained by the simulation results are shown.
2010
A metamodelling approach for performance evaluation of intermodal transportation networks / Boschian, Valentina; Dotoli, Mariagrazia; Fanti, Maria Pia; Iacobellis, Giorgio; Ukovich, Walter. - In: EUROPEAN TRANSPORT/TRASPORTI EUROPEI. - ISSN 1825-3997. - STAMPA. - 46:(2010), pp. 100-113.
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