This simulation models the oil supply chain in multiple steps:
- Crude oil is delivered to ports by tanker ships
- Crude oil flows from ports to refineries through pipelines
- Refineries turn crude oil into usable fuel
- Oil flows from refineries to storage locations, and then to local distributors
- Tanker trucks deliver oil from distributors to gas stations
Analysis
By looking at the Analysis view tab, you can gain insight into some of the dynamics of the simulation. The goal of the system is to ensure that gas stations have the fuel they need to serve their customers. The more time that gas stations are empty, the worse our system is performing. By using HASH's experiments, we can find configurations of our system that reduce the amount of time that gas stations go empty, and understand how changes in demand affect .
Experiments
Tanker trucks navigate along real roads in this simulation, using the Mapbox Navigation API. Documentation for this can be found here in the Navigation with Mapbox section.
This implementation of continuous resource flow through networks is only one potential method of implementation. See Oil Terminal for an alternate implementation.
This simulation features in one of our Moving to HASH tutorials. Feel free to follow along!
