Work Packages

WP No	Work Package Title	Lead Beneficiary short name	Start month	End month
WP1	Project Management	UNITS	1	48
WP2	Requirements Analysis	TEO	1	10
WP3	Development of Decision Support System (DSS)	KIC	4	30
WP4	Development of the Discrete Event Simulation (DES)	UNITS	17	30
WP5	Test of the algorithms and tools in case studies	TEO	21	32
WP6	Integration and evaluation of the prototype tools in the overall ICT platform	TEO	27	36

 

WP1 is the Project Management Workpackage, which will last for the whole duration of the project.
The objective of this Workpackage is to guarantee that:
- the transfer of knowledge programme is carried out according to the time schedule and budget established
- the objectives are efficiently achieved
- an effective co-ordinated structure is created and maintained
- the project is managed according to the contract between the SAIL consortium and the EC, maintaining a continuous link with the EC overall legal, contractual, ethical, financial and administrative issues of the project.

WP2 is related with Requirements Analysis, which will be dedicated to define the SAIL tool characteristics, the competence required for the researchers to be involved in the project and it will define the recruitment process among the partners. WP2 has to be considered as preparatory actions before starting the real R&D and ToK activities.

WP3 is related with the Development of the DSS System, with the overall purpose to improve the overall qualitative and quantitative performance of the intermodal port management.
The DSS is focused on the means of transport and not on the goods that they are transporting. There are several problems to take into account, e.g., the assignment of available resources and the scheduling of the activities. The system is composed by many actors and there are different and limited resources.

In the WP4, models of the logistic system involving the two terminals, port and dry port, are developed.
These models represent the structure of the system including activities of the actors and the available resources. For these reasons the system is modeled as a Discrete Event System whose dynamics depends on the interaction of discrete events, such as demands, departures and arrivals of transporters at facilities, acquisitions and releases of resources by vehicles, blockages of operations. Since the task of the model is a simulation study, the Unified Modelling Language (UML) formalism is used to describe the various viewpoints of the system: static (describing the different type of objects in the considered system), functional and dynamic (describing the activities of each object with the relative relation of precedence, synchronization, cooperation, timing). Indeed, UML is defined as a graphic and textual modelling formalism intended to understand the needs and to specify the system. The DES system will have inputs on real scenario (synergies with the SlimTruck project will allow that) concerning the activities that have to be performed and the available resources and also from the DSS developed in WP3. The main outputs of this system will be the assessment of various solutions provided by the DSS.

WP5 is the Test of Algorithms and Tools in Case Studies Work Package, where the efforts are addressed to evaluate the accuracy, the reliability and the security of all algorithms and components of the SAIL systems. Further evaluations will then dedicated to the integrated ICT platform in WP6.

WP6 is the Integration and Evaluation of Prototype Tools in the ICT Platform Work Package. It will include the overall integration of the prototype tools developed in the second phase of the work flow and their overall performance evaluation. After defining experimental scenarios and evaluation criteria, the robustness and the accuracy of the integrated SAIL system will be tested. This process will assure that the final result system will be a reliable tool for the logistic chain of port and dry port management.