Authors: Valentina Boschian, Maria Pia Fanti, Giorgio Iacobellis, George Georgoulas, Chrysostomos Stylios, Walter Ukovich
This paper deals with the specification of a Decision Support System (DSS) that has to manage the flow of goods and the business transactions between a port and a dry port. The paper investigates the case of the broader area of Trieste port and specifies the DSS that manages the import flows of freights between dry port and seaport. An integrated approach is designed for the tactical level decision strategy based on simulation optimization, where metaheuristic algorithms are applied.