Highway Freight Terminal Facilities Allocation based on Flexsim

Abstract

For different technical levels of highway freight terminal, you need to allocate the appropriate facilities (such as parking lots, warehouses, loading and unloading areas, roads) to complete the various operations of vehicle and goods in the stations. According to the demand of the facilities’ ratio in the current revision of “classification and construction requirement of highway freight terminal”, the paper uses the flexsim computer simulation technology combined with AutoCAD and 3dsMax design software to simulate the highway freight terminal. A simulation result is given of the area ratio of the different technical levels of highway freight terminal.Flexsim software is a typical integration between virtual reality technology and discrete object-oriented simulation. In order to make the software more suitable for the simulation model of highway freight terminal, this paper comprehensively analysis the mapping relationship of the road freight station facilities and various objects in the flexsim software. By using external drawing software to create 3D models imported into flexsim simulation software, and create highway freight terminal user object libraries in flexsim, such as: truck. This will enable more realistic simulation models of highway freight terminals. In this paper, on the basis of a comprehensive analysis of the simulation characteristics of the highway freight terminal and flexsim simulation methods, a typical road freight station is used for an example to establish the simulation models and give a simulation result of the area ratio of the different technical levels of highway freight terminal. Effective technical means to scientific decision-making for the road freight station planning and construction program are provided.