Merging Multiple System Perspectives
The Key to Effective Inland Shipping Emission-Reduction Policy Design
S.E. van der Werff (TU Delft - Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineering)
F Baart (Rijkswaterstaat)
M Van Koningsveld (Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors, TU Delft - Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineering)
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Abstract
Policymakers in the maritime sector face the challenge of designing and implementing decarbonization policies while maintaining safe navigation. Herein, the inland sector serves as a promising stepping stone due to the possibility of creating a dense energy supply infrastructure and shorter distances compared to marine shipping. A key challenge is to consider the totality of all operational profiles as a result of the range of vessels and routes encountering varying local circumstances. In this study, we use a new scheme called “event table” to transform big data on vessel trajectories (AIS data) combined with energy-estimating algorithms into shipping-emission outcomes that can be evaluated from multiple perspectives. We can subsequently tie observations in one perspective (for example, large-scale spatial patterns on a map) to supporting explanations based on another perspective (for example, water currents, vessel speeds, or engine ages and their contributions to emissions). Hence, combining these outcomes from multiple perspectives and evaluation scales provides an essential understanding of how the system works and what the most effective improvement measures will be. With our approach, we can translate large quantities of data from multiple sources into multiple linked perspectives on the shipping system.
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