Revealing the causes of delays at transit points along an intermodal grain supply chain

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15587/1729-4061.2025.338166

Keywords:

agent simulation, intermodal transportation, excess cargo mass, optimal working fleet

Abstract

This study’s object is the transport and technological system of grain supply along international routes. The issue considered is the emergence of excess cargo weight at the junctions of various types of transport.

The study was conducted on the basis of a constructed simulation model built according to the agent and discrete-event principles. It covers both the maximum transportation volumes in one of the Ukraine’s oblasts in 2021 (880 thousand tons) and the forecasted indicators (1–1.5 million tons per year).

The application of the model has made it possible to determine the optimal parameters for the fleet of vehicles in a supply chain, guided by the system criterion – minimization of the average delivery time of one ton of grain. It was established that for transporting 1 million tons of grain per year, the optimal composition of the transport fleet should include 92 trucks and four railroad routes.

Patterns in the formation of excess cargo weight depending on the estimated composition of vehicles were also determined. With a planned transportation intensity of 1 million tons per year, reducing the number of trucks by 12 units could lead to the accumulation of 237 thousand tons of cargo mass at transit points. Reducing the number of railroad routes by one unit would lead to the accumulation of 544 thousand tons of cargo mass, which corresponds to USD 106 million.

The proposed model makes it possible to assess the consequences of delays in delivery, as well as the formation of excess cargo mass at transit logistics terminals and grain elevators

Author Biographies

Yurii Khomenko, Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies

PhD Student

Department of Transport Service and Logistics

Andrii Okorokov, Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies

PhD, Associate Professor

Department of Transport Service and Logistics

Viacheslav Matsiuk, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine

Doctor of Technical Sciences

Department of Transport Technologies and Means of Agro-Industrial Complex

Iryna Zhuravel, Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies

PhD, Associate Professor

Department of Transport Service and Logistics

Olena Pavlenko, Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department of Transport Service and Logistics

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Revealing the causes of delays at transit points along an intermodal grain supply chain

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2025-08-30

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Khomenko, Y., Okorokov, A., Matsiuk, V., Zhuravel, I., & Pavlenko, O. (2025). Revealing the causes of delays at transit points along an intermodal grain supply chain. Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies, 4(3 (136), 40–50. https://doi.org/10.15587/1729-4061.2025.338166

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Vol. 4 No. 3 (136) (2025): Control processes

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