Abstract
The globalization of world economy by which locations of productions and consumptions has been diversified into nations has resulted in rapid growth of demands for the intermodal container transportation. This demands cause heavy traffic jam of trucks at the gate of container terminals. This paper tries to investigate economical loss and environmental damages caused by the traffic congestion. To explore better solutions for reducing the congestion, the Monte Carlo random simulation model is applied for queues of trucks observed at a gate of container terminal in a Japanese port. This simulation model simulates two possible alternatives of increasing in number of slots of gate and decreasing service time of checking in gate by which the traffic congestion can be reduced. This paper examines innovative technologies of gate systems that can be used for the alternatives and finally suggests that which one is more ecological to the Japanese container terminals.
