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July 2012 www.sname.org/sname/mt BY CRAIG DICKSONSIMULATE .UPDATE .REPEAT .Al Capone once famously admonished his supporters to vote ?early and often.? In this original political context, early and often was a means to subvert the will of the voters. In the context of an engineering project, it can do just the opposite: simulating early in the process and periodically updating the analysis throughout the project can bene t the stakeholders. Recent project work at the Port of Long Beach (POLB) in California is a case in point. FOR THE PORT OF LONG BEACH, MODELING HAS BEEN A KEY PART OF SUCCESSFUL EXPANSION