Digital Twins nei Sistemi Portuali e il contributo di GHG accounting: Una review della letteratura

Journal title MANAGEMENT CONTROL
Author/s Assunta Di Vaio, Sabrina Palladino, Elisa Van Engelenhoven
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/1
Language English Pages 26 P. 211-236 File size 137 KB
DOI 10.3280/MACO2025-001010
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This study explores the existing literature to better understand how Digital Twins (DTs) have been analyzed in the perspective of measuring and reporting the carbon footprint of port systems. The study also analyzes how greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting can contribute to feed the DTs information system regarding the values of emissions from mooring, unmooring and manoeuvring operations at the ship-port interface. Although several studies have explored the implementation of new technologies to improve the technical efficiency of ports and their effects on emissions, and others have analyzed GHG accounting for the measurement and reporting of the latter, it remains uncertain how GHG accounting can be integrated with DTs for predictive analytics of ship-port interface operations. This study conducts a literature review on a dataset of 47 articles from Scopus database and Google Scholar, published from 1990 to 2024. The results highlight that, since 2015, research on DTs in ports has highlighted their key role in reducing the carbon footprint and in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG7. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that analyses, according to a holistic approach, digital systems for virtual representations (DTs) and measurement and reporting systems (GHG accounting) for environmental sustainability at the ship-port interface to support public management decisions. This study provides a different perspective of analysis to the decarbonization of the port sector, with theoretical and practical implications also in response to the UN 2030 Agenda and its SDGs.

Keywords: GHG Accounting, Digital Twins, GHG Emissions, Management Control Systems, Port Systems, Sustainable Development Goals.

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Assunta Di Vaio, Sabrina Palladino, Elisa Van Engelenhoven, Digital Twins nei Sistemi Portuali e il contributo di GHG accounting: Una review della letteratura in "MANAGEMENT CONTROL" 1/2025, pp 211-236, DOI: 10.3280/MACO2025-001010