Deep learning has been used to improve intelligent transportation systems (ITS) by classifying ship targets in interior waterways. Researchers have created numerous classification methods, but they low accuracy and misclassify other targets. As a result, more research into is required avoid inland waterway collisions. We present new convolutional neural network method for waterways that can cla...

Last month, sea-ice cover in the Arctic extended to just 5.95 million square kilometres — 1.68 million square kilometres less than the average between 1979 and 2000. While native fauna such as polar bears are threatened by dwindling summer sea ice, commercial opportunities are opening up in this newly accessible summer sea and are being pursued apace. The first commercial supertanker succeeded ...

Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are areas controlled by specific legislations so as toattain economic prosperity. These zones are commonly established and controlled bygovernment officials and are primarily characterized by growing population and developingtransport infrastructure. One relevant case is the Pars Special Economic Energy Zone(PSEEZ) situated in the south of Iran, on the northern sho...

8 A comprehensive model for predicting the dynamics of spills from LNG and oil product tankers 9 is constructed from fluid mechanics principles and empirical properties of oil and LNG spills on 10 water. The analysis utilizes the significant tanker hold and discharge flow area dimensions to specify 11 the cargo liquid outflow history and the ensuing pool characteristics, including the establish...

This study presents a MILP model to retrieve or get close to the early schedule of disrupted container vessels. The model is appliedon a realcase study of Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) considering container demands, and CO2 emissionssolvedwith CPLEX GAMS solver in less than a minute. Sensitivity analysis on fuel inventory level shows the inevitable influence of the ...

The presence and abundance of non-indigenous, and/or harmful or toxic dinoflagellate species in ballast sediments is examined for 65 cargo ships visiting ports on the East coast of Canada, as part of the Canadian Aquatic Invasive Species Network (CAISN). Ships visiting several ports in the provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were sampled during three summers (2007, 2008, 2009). T...

A new type of interactive attraction in mixed reality environment, BLADESHIPS, has been designed and developed. The BLADESHIPS is a game in which players compete with each other by controlling virtually expressed belt-shaped flying object, “ships”, with their hands in real environment. They control their own ships by avoiding other ships and real/virtual obstacles. They try to drive enemy ships...

Maritime intermodal container terminals (CTs) are complex hub systems in which multiple transport modes receive and distribute freight to various destinations. They can be considered as interchange places in a transport system network where seaways, railways, and motorways intersect. Freight is usually organized, transported, stacked, handled and delivered in standard units of a typical contain...