Fatigue may have significant impacts on the port operations efficiency, but also on the safety of each single workers and on the “safety” of the whole terminal. To this aim, if on the one hand it is important to implement real-time solutions for improving port performances, on the other hand it is interesting to investigate the drop in performance of quay crane operators due to mental workload. The aim of this study was the simulation of the crane operator's fatigue. In particular, starting from real data provided on the two busiest work shifts, the paper aims at analyzing the crane operators fatigue curve in the port of Salerno and implementing it in a multi-agent discrete-event simulation model. The results of the analysis point out that the fatigue curve obtained through the real data referred to the port of Salerno are validated by the theory and consistent with the available fatigue curves.

Implementation of a Methodology for the Fatigue Analysis in Quay Crane Operators Through a Multi-agent - Discrete Event Simulation: The Salerno Container Terminal Case Study

de Luca, Stefano;Cisternas, Lucas Joel;Fiori, Chiara;Di Pace, Roberta
2022-01-01

Abstract

Fatigue may have significant impacts on the port operations efficiency, but also on the safety of each single workers and on the “safety” of the whole terminal. To this aim, if on the one hand it is important to implement real-time solutions for improving port performances, on the other hand it is interesting to investigate the drop in performance of quay crane operators due to mental workload. The aim of this study was the simulation of the crane operator's fatigue. In particular, starting from real data provided on the two busiest work shifts, the paper aims at analyzing the crane operators fatigue curve in the port of Salerno and implementing it in a multi-agent discrete-event simulation model. The results of the analysis point out that the fatigue curve obtained through the real data referred to the port of Salerno are validated by the theory and consistent with the available fatigue curves.
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