Simulating the Impact of the Sustained Melting Arctic on the Global Container Sea–Rail Intermodal Shipping
Global warming trends and the rapid reduction of summer Arctic sea ice extent have increased the feasibility of transarctic transport. How the process of glacier melting affects the existing containerized sea–rail shipping network and container flow assignment has become a challenging economic and p...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:oai:doaj.org/article:3f3d03e65a104716978b4430b11ede2f 2023-05-15T14:45:34+02:00 Simulating the Impact of the Sustained Melting Arctic on the Global Container Sea–Rail Intermodal Shipping Zhuo Sun Ran Zhang Tao Zhu 2022-09-01 https://doi.org/10.3390/su141912214 https://doaj.org/article/3f3d03e65a104716978b4430b11ede2f en eng MDPI AG doi:10.3390/su141912214 2071-1050 https://doaj.org/article/3f3d03e65a104716978b4430b11ede2f undefined Sustainability, Vol 14, Iss 12214, p 12214 (2022) Arctic routes container flow assignment sea ice extent sea–rail intermodal network geo envir Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2022 fttriple https://doi.org/10.3390/su141912214 2023-01-22T17:52:28Z Global warming trends and the rapid reduction of summer Arctic sea ice extent have increased the feasibility of transarctic transport. How the process of glacier melting affects the existing containerized sea–rail shipping network and container flow assignment has become a challenging economic and policy issue. This paper first examines the meteorological influences on glacier melting and the assignment of container flow over the existing sea–rail network. Then, a three-layer simulation framework is constructed, with the upper layer simulating glacier melting based on the raster grid, the middle layer combining a grid and topology analysis to simulate the evolution of the global sea–rail network and the lower layer establishing a concave cost network flow model to simulate the container flow assignment. Finally, we use MicroCity to achieve the dynamic optimization and simulation of global container flow assignment, solving the large-scale sea–rail shipping network traffic assignment problem. The simulation results show that the proposed model and solution algorithm are feasible and effective, revealing the variation of container flow assignment in the global sea–rail shipping network under different Arctic ice melting scenarios. For instance, in the summer of 2050, the Arctic routes will share the global container flows, resulting in a significant reduction of container flows in the Malacca Strait, Suez Canal and Panama Canal. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Global warming Sea ice Unknown Arctic Sustainability 14 19 12214 |
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Global warming trends and the rapid reduction of summer Arctic sea ice extent have increased the feasibility of transarctic transport. How the process of glacier melting affects the existing containerized sea–rail shipping network and container flow assignment has become a challenging economic and policy issue. This paper first examines the meteorological influences on glacier melting and the assignment of container flow over the existing sea–rail network. Then, a three-layer simulation framework is constructed, with the upper layer simulating glacier melting based on the raster grid, the middle layer combining a grid and topology analysis to simulate the evolution of the global sea–rail network and the lower layer establishing a concave cost network flow model to simulate the container flow assignment. Finally, we use MicroCity to achieve the dynamic optimization and simulation of global container flow assignment, solving the large-scale sea–rail shipping network traffic assignment problem. The simulation results show that the proposed model and solution algorithm are feasible and effective, revealing the variation of container flow assignment in the global sea–rail shipping network under different Arctic ice melting scenarios. For instance, in the summer of 2050, the Arctic routes will share the global container flows, resulting in a significant reduction of container flows in the Malacca Strait, Suez Canal and Panama Canal. |
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Simulating the Impact of the Sustained Melting Arctic on the Global Container Sea–Rail Intermodal Shipping |
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