INTERMODEL gives terminal owners and operators, an option to improve decision-making with integrated approach to establish consideration of multimodal terminals. Offers a detailed vision to improve in 3 perspectives: operational, economic and environmental.
The added value of the Integration Platform is the ability to gather the knowledge of different expertise areas in a common environment. Currently each of these areas of expertise works independently, being less efficient in the search of similar results. Consequently, the investment in time and cost is higher.
An INTERMODEL indicator framework has been set and provides a complete vision of the terminal performance.
The Project presents a decision-making tool which evaluates the different alternatives for the design and expansion of a terminal. In order to do so, several scenarios representing the different alternatives must be determined as inputs. However, selection and definition of these scenarios is not an easy task and requires a strong knowledge of the concepts and data needed as well.
From a functional perspective, the platform developed represents a digital tool where identified questions are jointly (among the problem owner and experts) discussed and improved, and then quantitative predictions are given based on the developed holistic and integrative approach.
Stakeholders with different backgrounds can understand various perspectives with a realistic ‘game-type’ visualization of operations. For the decision makers, it provides an opportunity to consider desired functional areas and it is possible to consider e.g. additional data, costs and outside terminal options on different scenarios.
From an economic point of view, the integration platform has also a function for simple financial calculations
The calculation is performed based on:
•Revenue in TEU
•Costs
•Terminal throughput and
•Annual operating hours and carbon footprint.
The user is able to get output including revenue, OPEX, operational profit and margin and carbon footprint. The function helps to adjust operational numbers, when there are e.g. discussions on reducing running costs per hour of the terminal.
After analysing the Project performance made with the available data and based on the Consortium experience, can be concluded that a reduction in time for project definition and study of new terminal proposals could represent savings at around 30% in time and up to 80% in costs from the study perspective.
Environmentally, Intermodel studies the impact that different type of concrete represents for the Sustainability allowing the user the possibility to evaluate how different materials can improve the indicators related.
Regarding the exploitation, several KERs were identified and a Memorandum of Understanding has been generated involving several partners.
Dissemination tools such as social media, brochures and presentation videos have been used and created during the project and will be further used in the following months.
