Advisory-Based Time Slot Management System to Mitigate Waiting Time at Container Terminal Gates

This paper introduces an advisory-based time slot management system (TSMS) to control truck arrivals at seaport terminals with the aim to reduce congestion at terminal gates. A modeling framework is proposed, developed, and applied to assess the impact of a truck arrival shift for a case study in the Port of Rotterdam. This system is designed...

A cost-effective bacteria-based self-healing cementitious composite for low-temperature marine applications

Bacteria-based self-healing concrete is an innovative self-healing materials approach, whereby bacteria embedded in concrete can form a crack healing mineral precipitate. Structures made from self-healing concrete promise longer service lives, with associated economic benefits [1]. Despite concretes susceptibility to marine-based degradation...

Electromagnetic interferometry in wavenumber and space domains in a layered earth

With interferometry applied to controlled-source electromagnetic data, the direct field and the airwave and all other effects related to the air-water interface can be suppressed in a data-driven way. Interferometry allows for retreival of the scattered field Green’s function of the subsurface or, in other words, the subsurface reflection...

Robotization in Seismic Acquisition

The amount of sources and detectors in the seismic method follows "Moore’s Law of seismic data acquisition", i.e., it increases approximately by a factor of 10 every 10 years. Therefore automation is unavoidable, leading to robotization of seismic data acquisition. Recently, we introduced a new source concept that replaces today’s complex, local...

Nongeometrically converted shear waves in marine streamer data

Under certain circumstances, marine streamer data contain nongeometrical shear body wave arrivals that can be used for imaging. These shear waves are generated via an evanescent compressional wave in the water and convert to propagating shear waves at the water bottom. They are called “nongeometrical” because the evanescent part in the water...

Effects of heavy metals on microbial diversity and bacterial resistance in marine sediments

In North-Western Europe alone more than 200 million cubic meters of contaminated sludge is dredged on an annual basis. Deposition of dredged harbour sediments in relatively undisturbed ecosystems is often considered a viable option, under the assumption that metals are not released into the environment. This research initially focused on the...

Marine litter monitoring by Northern Fulmars: Progress report 2002

Corpses and stomach contents of 53 Fulmars beachwashed in the Netherlands during the year 2001 were investigated on the presence of marine litter ingested by these birds. These data were added to the existing database on this topic covering the years 1982 to 2000. Litter quantities in 2001 were relatively low as compared to some earlier years,...

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Risk analysis for marine systems: An introduction

The safety analysis of marine systems is studied. One assumes that the required results of the hazard analysis are available. The identification of the appropriate performance function and the relevant reliability calculation are discussed in detail. The procedure is exemplified for some basic categories of marine systems.

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