Sustainable Means of Transporting Mining Goods to a Logistics Consolidated Platform

Abstract

The movement of goods and services severely impacts the development of the supply chain and urban sustainability. Both scholars and decision-makers have recently given the idea of city logistics and intermodality a lot of attention. City logistics are crucial to maintaining the viability of metropolitan regions in which urban freight transportation also significantly impacts how well people live there. Optimizing urban freight transportation substantially impacts the sustainability and livability of cities and urban areas by lowering traffic congestion, minimizing traffic accidents, and attenuating the effects of CO2 emissions and noise. The supply chain of mining and sub-contractor companies in Tarkwa is mostly done by road freight which creates massive environmental, safety and traffic congestion. Therefore, this thesis evaluates creating a new transport network to haul mining goods and services to a consolidated logistics platform. To achieve this, a wide range of literature assessments relevant to peripheral logistics platforms' impact on cities' sustainability were examined. It appears that there aren't any well-defined models that can provide a thorough and quantitative evaluation of sustainability for the rerouting of transport networks. Field traffic flow observation and a case study on Goldfields Damang were used to perform additional research. A mixed-methods study using both a qualitative and quantitative component was conducted based on all the data gathered from the pertinent sources. This thesis created a methodical technique using google Maps and Jupyter notebook to evaluate the significant elements that affect a move in the context of all three sustainable aspects: social, economic, and environmental growth. These effects include traffic congestion, travel time and distance, increased emissions, cost-effective transportation, and improved mobility. The simulation revealed the necessity of having a new transport link to the consolidated platform to enhance intermodality. Research must be done into how government and other stakeholders can partner to build an intermodal logistic platforms with well-enhanced transport networks, and the use of GIS in location selection to create smart city concepts