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June 2015 - January 2019
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In recent years, with the rapid development of world economy, energy consumption increases sharply, and the environment is deteriorating. So, Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), a renewable clean energy (Tugnoli et al., 2010) which can be used as ship fuel, is drawing attentions from more and more countries in the world. However, the transformation of the...
With the prosperity of global shipping industry, a variety of shipping-induced environmental problems and increasingly rigid emission restrictions have drawn more attention to an emerging marine fuel—liquefied natural gas (LNG), a clean and efficient energy that conforms to the essence of green shipping. Although with superiority using onboard, the...
Accurately forecasting container port throughput over the medium-term is crucial for making informed investment decisions by companies. However, current methods suffer from poor accuracy in dealing with complex, non-linear fluctuations and time series of uncertain demand. This research presents a novel hybrid framework that combines deep learning t...
The use of traditional methods in anomaly detection of multi-class ship trajectories showed some limitations in terms of robustness and learning ability of trajectory features. In view of this, an anomaly detection model for ship trajectory data based on Gaussian Mixture Variational Autoencoder (GMVAE) is proposed in this study using an unsupervise...
The rapid development of high techniques in recent years has made the operation of intelligent ships a possible option in foreseeable future. This will inevitably change the navigation environment of ships. Both conventional and intelligent ships will sail in the same channels and water areas. This research proposed a framework to meet the needs of...
Recently, researchers have shown a soaring interest in maritime autonomous surface ship (MASS). The reliable design and risk evaluation of MASS is crucial in order to support its safe operations. Hence, keeping abreast of emerging trends in developing MASSs safety and reliability-related technologies is necessary and significant. Nevertheless, a co...
In recent years, the construction of lane-level road maps has received extensive attention from industry and academia. It has been widely studied because this kind of map provides the foundation for much research, such as high-precision navigation, driving behavior analysis, and traffic analysis. Trajectory-based crowd-mapping is an emerging approa...
Efficient and effective allocation of emergency resources is a premise for in-time maritime search and rescue (MSAR). In order to improve the allocation efficiency of maritime emergency resources and the performance of MSAR operations, an optimization model of emergency resources allocation is proposed, considering multiple restrictions including a...
Given to the increasing traffic volume in ports in recent years, ship selection and inspection procedure in the port state control (PSC) should be improved to reduce any unnecessary delay caused by the inefficient inspections. This study aims to newly use a data training technique and the newest PSC data to improve the usage of Bayesian Network (BN...
Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship (MASS) is widely deemed as the future of global shipping. The cyber vulnerability has however been identified as an emerging problem and a potential barrier influencing MASS development. This paper, through the investigation of the fundamental trust problem with regards to the cyber security of MASS systems, aims to...
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Since the start of the current century, the world at large has experienced uncertainties as a result of climate change, terrorism threats and increasing economic upheaval. These uncertainties create non-classical risks for global seaborne container trade and liner shipping networks (LSNs). The purpose of this paper is to establish a novel r...
Ports, as the main components of global maritime transportation, have attracted attention from both industry and academia in relation to their safety management. Identifying the important ports of a maritime shipping network is necessary and significant for the recovery of ports when encountering severe disasters, especially with limited emergency...
Risk presents an important challenge in transportation research. Its foci are being expanded from classical safety, through security to resilience. Addressing risk-based resilience within the context of freight transport networks requires integration across disciplines and research methodologies. The research community currently lacks a critical un...
Port State Control (PSC) inspections have been implemented as an administrative measure to detect and detain substandard ships and thus to ensure maritime safety. Advanced risk models were developed to investigate the impact of factors influencing ship detention. Although showing much attractiveness, current studies still reveal a key challenge on...
Inland shipping plays a significant role in the integrated transport system. Maritime safety has been one of the top concerns due to its high-risk characteristics. The historical accident data is treated as a valuable source for identifying the riskiest waters (also called black-spots) where special attention is necessary. In view of this, a two-st...
This paper proposes a novel data-driven approach to estimate the navigable capacity of busy waterways, focusing on ships entering and leaving port, based on the structural characteristics of traffic flow driven by the Automatic Identification System (AIS) data. First, we collect the ship traffic flow in a busy waterway by processing the original AI...
Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) have recently drawn significant attention throughout academia, governments, and industry. One of the requirements for MASS is that they should at least be as safe as conventional ships. Often, to measure their level of safety, the concept of risk is adopted, and risk influencing factors are determined. This...
This paper develops a decision-making model to assist the improvement of the carrying capacity of ship locks by combing fuzzy logic, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method, and the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS). A three-level hierarchical structure is constructed to identify the key factors influenc...
Water transportation accidents have occurred frequently in recent years. In order to improve the emergency response capability of water transportation systems under traffic-intensive conditions, this paper identifies and analyzes the vulnerability in traffic-intensive areas of water transportation systems. Firstly, the vulnerability identification...
The Belt and Road (B&R) initiative provides a great opportunity for facilitating the development of the maritime industry. Ports, as the main components of the global maritime logistics system, have attracted attention from both industry and academia in relation to the evaluation of their role in maritime shipping networks. To assess the importance...
This paper aims to develop a novel model to assess the risk factors of maritime supply chains by incorporating a fuzzy belief rule approach with Bayesian networks. The new model, compared to traditional risk analysis methods, has the capability of improving result accuracy under a high uncertainty in risk data. A real case of a world leading contai...
In recent years, increasingly strict restrictions on ship emissions and continuously increasing prices of marine fuel oil have made the liquefied natural gas (LNG) using as a marine fuel more attractive, and LNG fuelled ships have therefore become more popular in many countries. However, there is still not much research on the development level of...
Inland ports are core strategic resources promoting the development of regional economy. They are not only connections between production and consumption, domestic and foreign freight transport, but also critical infrastructure supporting the national and regional economic development, whose performance will inevitably influence the economy of the...
During a decision making process, decision makers often need to handle large amount of information in order to reach a rational decision. Such information can be incomplete, uncertain and even contradictory to each other. Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methods provide effective and popular solutions to aid decisions under uncertainty. Well-e...
The Belt and Road (B&R) initiative was introduced by the Chinese government to promote the worldwide economic development and multilateral cooperation between China and the associated countries. As a crucial part of global supply chains, transportation plays a key role to ensure the implementation of the B&R. Safety is one of the issues with great...
Environmental problems that seriously affect both natural systems and social development of human beings have drawn extensive attention from governing authorities all around the world, and become an urgent issue to be addressed. Ports play a significant role in the international shipping which inevitably influence the global environment. Thus, the...
With the continuous increase of traffic volume in recent years, inland waterway transportation suffers more and more from congestion problems, which form a major impediment to its development. Thus, it is of great significance for the stakeholders and decision makers to address these congestion issues properly. Fuzzy Techniques for Order Preference...
With the rapid economic development, inland navigation plays a vital role in the regional economy. Hence, more and more ships navigate in the Yangtze River, the longest inland river in China. This paper analyzes the current situation of navigation of the Three Gorge water area. Based on the statistics analysis of the traffic flow feature of the are...
Recent years, with the rapid development of world economy, energy consumption is sharply increaseing and the environment is deteriorating. Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), a clean renewable energy which can be used as ship fuel, is drawing attentions from more and more countries over the world. However, the conversion of the LNG-diesel dual fuel engine...
Liquefied natural gas (LNG), a cleaner energy resource compared to heavy fuel oil (HFO), has been utilized as an energy source by vessels of various types, e.g., ferries, cargo vessels and platform supply vessels (PSV), notably after the release of International Maritime Organization (IMO) interim guideline MSC. 285(86) which officially authorized...
Through investigation of the reservoir area in Guangxi Province and the definition of key risk factors (such as human, ship, environment, and management), this paper evaluates the waterway traffic safety status by using the pressure - state - response (PSR) evaluation theory combined with the Analytic Hierarchy Process method and linear quadratic e...
Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) is a kind of quality and valuable industrial chemical, produced by compressing and cooling natural gas to -162 degree Celsius. The safety issues are worth concern, especially in the LNG storage and transportation processes (e.g. the ultra-low temperature may be threatening once leakage happens.) This article chooses the ISO...
Scientific and objective evaluation of waterway traffic safety plays an important role in risk prevention and control. An international advanced concept of PSR (Pressure-State-Response) model is introduced in this paper. What's more, the waterway traffic safety risk assessment system in Guangxi area is constructed. Four regions (C, Y, O and R) are...