Prediction of CO₂ emissions during multimodal grain transportation

Abstract The article presents the results of a research on the efficiency of multimodal grain transportation from Ukraine in the global supply chains. The research was conducted on the basis of the developed simulation model. Unlike existing ones the presented model takes into account the stochastic nature of the main technological operations and delays at the intersection point of different modes of transport. Using the developed simulation models, the process of transporting grains in global supply chains from Ukraine through the Mykolaiv Commercial Port was simulated. It was experimentally determined that the environmental impact of the multimodal route is significantly lower. CO 2 emissions per ton of transported grains were 1 kg, which is almost 90 percent lower than when transported by the existing method.