Scheduling two-way ship traffic for the Kiel Canal: Model, extensions and a matheuristic

2019 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 119-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Meisel ◽  
Kjetil Fagerholt
Keyword(s):  
Ship Traffic ◽  
Kiel Canal

scholarly journals Alien amphipods (Arthopoda; Crustacea) in the Tista Estuary, Halden, southeastern Norway

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 34-40
Author(s):  
Ingvar Spikkeland ◽  
Jens Petter Nilssen
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Brackish Water ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Ecological Niches ◽  
Ship Traffic ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Kiel Canal ◽  
Corophium Multisetosum

Two new amphipods for Norway Melita nitida and Corophium multisetosum (Crustacea; Amphipoda) were registered in brackish waters in the Tista Estuary in Halden, southeastern Norway. Both species were found in the samples from Tista’s outlet into the Idde Fjord, C. multisetosum in the beach zone and M. nitida at about 4 m depth. Melita nitida is a North American species first found in Europe in the Netherlands in 1998, and since then dispersed into the Baltic Sea via the Kiel Canal and now also found several places on the German Baltic Sea coast and in the Black Sea. Corophium multisetosum was collected even before the 1920s in Western Europe, and is considered native for Europe, whereas its relationship to North America is more ambiguous. From the British Isles and the Netherlands, it seems to have spread to Germany, Poland, Denmark and Sweden, and at present Norway. Until now the two species were found in small numbers at the Norwegian sites and their influence on the total benthic community is probably negligible in this initial phase. The Tista Estuary in Halden apparently appears to be a hotspot for alien brackish water species in Norway. Generally estuaries, with their combination of brackish water jointly with their unsaturated ecological niches and intensive international ship traffic, seem to possess the highest potential infection rate for aquatic systems with alien acrozoobenthic species.

scholarly journals Ship Traffic Optimization for the Kiel Canal

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 791-812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Lübbecke ◽  
Marco E. Lübbecke ◽  
Rolf H. Möhring
Keyword(s):  
Ship Traffic ◽  
Traffic Optimization ◽  
Kiel Canal

A prediction model of vessel trajectory based on generative adversarial network

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Senjie Wang ◽  
Zhengwei He
Keyword(s):  
Safety Management ◽  
Route Planning ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Trajectory Data ◽  
Trajectory Prediction ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Ship Traffic ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
Vessel Motion

Abstract Trajectory prediction is an important support for analysing the vessel motion behaviour, judging the vessel traffic risk and collision avoidance route planning of intelligent ships. To improve the accuracy of trajectory prediction in complex situations, a Generative Adversarial Network with Attention Module and Interaction Module (GAN-AI) is proposed to predict the trajectories of multiple vessels. Firstly, GAN-AI can infer all vessels’ future trajectories simultaneously when in the same local area. Secondly, GAN-AI is based on adversarial architecture and trained by competition for better convergence. Thirdly, an interactive module is designed to extract the group motion features of the multiple vessels, to achieve better performance at the ship encounter situations. GAN-AI has been tested on the historical trajectory data of Zhoushan port in China; the experimental results show that the GAN-AI model improves the prediction accuracy by 20%, 24% and 72% compared with sequence to sequence (seq2seq), plain GAN, and the Kalman model. It is of great significance to improve the safety management level of the vessel traffic service system and judge the degree of ship traffic risk.

scholarly journals Research on the impact of ship traffic flow on the restricted channel segment of the middle Yangtze River based on traffic wave theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ting Liu ◽  
Gabriel Lodewijks
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Flow ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Flow Simulation ◽  
Wave Theory ◽  
Flow Density ◽  
List Type ◽  
Ship Traffic ◽  
Traffic Wave ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Channel Segment

Abstract Abstract On the basis of the influence of dry season on ship traffic flow, the gathering and dissipating process of ship traffic flow was researched with Greenshields linear flow—density relationship model, the intrinsic relationship between the ship traffic congestion state and traffic wave in the unclosed restricted channel segment was emphatically explored when the ship traffic flow in a tributary channel inflows, and the influence law of multiple traffic waves on the ship traffic flow characteristics in unclosed restricted segment is revealed. On this basis, the expressions of traffic wave speed and direction, dissipation time of queued ships and the number of ships affected were provided, and combined with Monte Carlo method, the ship traffic flow simulation model in the restricted channel segment was built. The simulation results show that in closed restricted channel segment the dissipation time of ships queued is mainly related to the ship traffic flow rate of segments A and C, and the total number of ships affected to the ship traffic flow rate of segment A. And in unclosed restricted channel segment, the dissipation time and the total number of ships affected are also determined by the meeting time of the traffic waves in addition to the ship traffic flow rate of segments. The research results can provide the theoretical support for further studying the ship traffic flow in unclosed restricted channel segment with multiple tributaries Article Highlights The inflow of tributaries' ship traffic flows has an obvious impact on the traffic conditions in the unenclosed restricted channel segment. The interaction and influence between multiple ship traffic waves and the mechanism of generating new traffic waves are explained. The expression of both dissipation time of queued ships and the total number of ships affected in the closed and unclosed restricted channel segment are given.

DETERMINISTIC-BASED SHIP ANTI-COLLISION ROUTE OPTIMIZATION WITH WEB-BASED APPLICATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 161 (A4) ◽  
Author(s):  
R Fışkın ◽  
E Nasibov ◽  
M O Yardımcı
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Collision Avoidance ◽  
Traffic Engineering ◽  
Human Error ◽  
Experimental Tests ◽  
Route Optimization ◽  
Process Automation ◽  
International Regulation ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Ship Traffic

Most of the accidents are caused by human error at sea so, decision making process made by navigators should be more computerised and automated. The supported decision making can be a step forward to decrease the risk of collision. This paper, in this respect, aims to present a deterministic approach to support optimum collision avoidance trajectory. This approach involves a collision avoidance course alteration. A web-based application coded with "JavaScript" programming language on the "Processing" software platform which allows the own ship to change her course in a deterministic manner to avoid collision optimally has been introduced. Algorithm structure of the method has been formulated and organized according to the International Regulation for Preventing Collision at Sea (COLREGs). The experimental tests results have revealed that the system is practicable and feasible and considerably outperforms heuristic-based method. It is thought that the developed method can be applied in an intelligent avoidance system on board and provides contribution to ship collision avoidance process, automation of ship motion control and ship traffic engineering.

scholarly journals Invasion of the Indo-Pacific blenny Omobranchus punctatus (Perciformes: Blenniidae) on the Atlantic Coast of Central and South America

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 571-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Lasso-Alcalá ◽  
Jorge L. S. Nunes ◽  
Carlos Lasso ◽  
Juan Posada ◽  
Ross Robertson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Introduced Species ◽  
Temporal Pattern ◽  
Larval Dispersal ◽  
New Records ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Ship Traffic ◽  
Marine Habitats ◽  
Petroleum Platforms

We examined 308 specimens of the Indo-Pacific blenniid Omobranchus punctatus deposited in four museum collections, and analyzed data on their collection locations to assess its invasion on the Atlantic coast of Central and South America. This species occurs in shoreline estuarine and marine habitats in the Indo-West Pacific. Previous sampling and recent records in the Tropical West Atlantic from 1930 to 2004 produced 20 records for: Panamá, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Brazil. In this work, we provide data on 17 new records for the Gulfs of Venezuela and Paria in Venezuela, as well as four records for Maranhão and Pará states in NE Brazil. The temporal pattern of collections (1930 - 2009) and the proximity of most localities to ports and zones of ship traffic indicate that O. punctatus was initially introduced to the Atlantic by ships travelling from India to Trinidad. Within Brazil the introduction is linked to shipping connected to petroleum platforms. In Maranhão and Pará the introduction may have occurred as a result of fish sheltering in fouling on hulls of ships moving between ports around the mouth of the Amazon River. Alternatively, the spread of this species along of the American coast may reflect the expansion of the range of O. puntactus through larval dispersal in northward flowing currents. We recommend monitoring of this introduced species, and studies of its ecology in West Atlantic areas.

Exploring ship traffic variability off California

2018 ◽  
Vol 163 ◽  
pp. 515-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Moore ◽  
Jessica V. Redfern ◽  
Michael Carver ◽  
Sean Hastings ◽  
Jeffrey D. Adams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ship Traffic

Enhanced levels of nitrous acid during daytime derived from MAX-DOAS measurements during the AQABA campaign in late summer 2017

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffen Dörner ◽  
Sebastian Donner ◽  
Lisa Behrens ◽  
Steffen Beirle ◽  
Sergey Osipov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nitrous Acid ◽  
Arabian Gulf ◽  
Late Summer ◽  
Oil Fields ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
Ship Traffic ◽  
Dust Clouds ◽  
Clean Air ◽  
Ship Route ◽  
Set Up

<p>During the Air Quality and Climate Change in the Arabian Basin (AQABA) campaign a MAX-DOAS instrument was set up on board of the Kommandor Iona. The ship route covered a variety of regions with different atmospheric compositions: Clean air in the Mediterranean and the Arabian Sea, anthropogenic air pollution near the oil fields in the Arabian Gulf or in areas of dense ship traffic like the Suez Channel or the dust clouds of the nearby deserts in the Red sea. The measured spectra in the UV/VIS spectral range (302 to 467nm) provide sufficient information for the retrieval of aerosol and trace gas profiles. In this study, we focus on evidences of direct nitrous acid emission sources in harbor areas around Jeddah and Kuwait. Since HONO daytime chemistry is debated in recent literature and missing sources are being discussed, we compared the results of the MAX DOAS measurements to WRF-Chem model output in order to identify potential daytime sources in maritime/harbor regions.</p>

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