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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Maritime Transportation"”.
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Environmental hazard identification, assessment and control for a sustainable maritime transportation system
… widening awareness of the need for sustainable maritime development and for coordinated maritime policies worldwide. Maritime shipping is considered the most eco-efficient mean of transportation and yet, is responsible for negative environmental impacts.</p><p>This dissertation focuses on …
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A comparative study on liability issues concerning maritime transportation of dangerous goods: International and Chinese perspectives
… issues. Both involve liability associated with maritime transportation and liability in respect of dangerous goods is a complex area of law both from an international as well as a domestic perspective. China is a rapidly emerging economic power and a major world player in shipping and seaborne …
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Opposing powers at the helm: The production of (im)mobilities of maritime transportation in Vieques, Puerto Rico
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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A Review of Energy and Environmental Policy for Offshore Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Terminals
The Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 amended the Deepwater Port Act of 1974 allowing energy industries to construct offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals. The industry friendly amendments weakened environmental regulations resulting in quick approval of several terminals that …
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Increasing intermodal transportation in Europe through realizing the value of short sea shipping
… the role of short sea shipping within the transportation network in the European Union. It examines the existence of externalities relating to congestion, infrastructure, air pollution, noise, and accidents in the transportation sector. It evaluates the level of these externalities and also …
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The development of short sea shipping in the United States : a dynamic alternative
… This paper outlines the need for a change in our maritime transportation system. It takes a look at the current uses of short sea shipping in the United States as well as the system used in Europe. The technology associated with this concept is described and high-speed vessel design is …
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Modeling Vessel Behaviours By Clustering Ais Data Using Optimized DBSCAN
Today, maritime transportation represents substantial international trade. Sustainable development of marine transportation requires systematic modeling and surveillance for maritime situational awareness. In this research thesis, we present an enhanced density-based spatial clustering (DBSCAN) …
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Port Infrastructure Resilience through Combined Wind-Surge Demand Characterization
<p>The United States economy is reliant on maritime transportation for 70% of imports and exports. Structures that are integral to the operation of ports, such as cranes, are jeopardized when tropical storms approach land. While wind is the only environmental load used to design dockside container …
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Cabotage: The effects of an external non-tariff measure on the competitiveness of agribusiness in Puerto Rico
… agribusinesses. It explores the effects of a maritime cabotage regulation (US Jones Act) on the affordability and accessibility of produce and grains. PR imports 100% of their needs of grain and over 85% of fresh produce. PR’s food imports are generally from the US and the trade service is …
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Cabotage: The effects of an external non-tariff measure on the competitiveness of agribusiness in Puerto Rico
… agribusinesses. It explores the effects of a maritime cabotage regulation (US Jones Act) on the affordability and accessibility of produce and grains. PR imports 100% of their needs of grain and over 85% of fresh produce. PR’s food imports are generally from the US and the trade service is …
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A framework for quantifying complexity and understanding its sources : application to tow large-scale systems
… Air Traffic Control radar, the second one is a maritime surveillance radar. The two large-scale systems in which the radars are embedded are therefore the air and the maritime transportation system. The internal complexity metrics takes into account the number of links, the number of elements, …
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Enhancing Civil Military Integration for Strategic Sealift
… the workings of the merchant navy, the military transportation desk officer cannot make an informed decision concerning the sealift capabilities required for strategic defence, humanitarian aid or refugee evacuation. This thesis reviews the range of militarily suitable commercial shipping and the …
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Long-Term Assessments Of Some Vessel-Source Marine Pollutants
Accidental and deliberate discharges from maritime transportation activities have been widely perceived as major sources of pollution. Preventive and control management strategies have therefore been progressively introduced internationally to reduce and eliminate these inputs to the marine …
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Intermodal Freight Transport on the ScanMed Corridor: Rail-Road-Sea Integration, Efficiency, and System Optimization
With freight transportation being the backbone of economies and preventing a looming climate crisis, a closer look into the modes of freight transportation is needed. To address the economic viability and the environmental impact of a transportation mode, this report compares the transportation …
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System theoretic safety analysis of the Sewol-Ho ferry accident in South Korea
… place on April 16, 2014, was one of the worst maritime disasters in South Korea in decades, and rescuing only 172 of a total 476 people triggered thorough accident investigations. As the results of the investigations performed by the Korea Maritime Safety Tribunal and the Board of Audit and …
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Mixed-Integer Mathematical Programming Optimization Models and Algorithms For An Oil Tanker Routing and Scheduling Problem
… algorithms for routing and scheduling ships in a maritime transportation system. Literature surveyed on seaborne transportation systems indicates that there is a scarcity of research on ship routing and scheduling problems. The complexity and the overwhelming size of a typical ship routing and …
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Essays on spatial economics and trade
… It investigates the macroeconomic effects of maritime transportation shocks in the case of Chile. Leveraging high-frequency customs data and port-level statistics, I identify these shocks using a strategy based on the inelastic short-term supply of vessels embeded in a SVAR framework. I then …
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The Role of Hydrogen Fuel in Hard-to-Decarbonise Modes of Transport: An Energy Systems Perspective
… the rapid decarbonisation of the aviation and maritime sectors. Simultaneously, there is an opportunity for the maritime sector to assist with the decarbonation of the wider global energy system via the supply of low-carbon energy. There is potential to transport such energy from regions where …