A System to Improve Port Navigation Safety and Its Use in Italian Harbours

This article describes research aimed at developing a system able to support local authorities and port communities in optimizing port navigation, avoiding or managing critical situations induced by sea-level variations in harbours and minimizing environmental damages and economic losses. In the Med...

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Autores principales:	Maurizio Soldani, Osvaldo Faggioni
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	coastal maritime transport maritime safety ship accident prevention harbour waterside management environmental monitoring marine environment protection Technology T Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TA1-2040 Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Physics QC1-999 Chemistry QD1-999
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:cd428b99809340a4a67d2e98b046c8a82021-11-11T15:18:07ZA System to Improve Port Navigation Safety and Its Use in Italian Harbours10.3390/app1121102652076-3417https://doaj.org/article/cd428b99809340a4a67d2e98b046c8a82021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/21/10265https://doaj.org/toc/2076-3417This article describes research aimed at developing a system able to support local authorities and port communities in optimizing port navigation, avoiding or managing critical situations induced by sea-level variations in harbours and minimizing environmental damages and economic losses. In the Mediterranean basin, sea-level changes are mostly due to astronomical tides, related to the gravitational attraction between Earth, Moon and Sun. Nevertheless, sea-level variations are also influenced by meteorological tides, which are geodetic adjustments of sea surface due to atmospheric pressure variations above a water basin. So, starting from monitoring or forecasting environmental parameters in harbours, the system updates port bathymetric maps based on sea-level variations (acquired in the past, measured in real-time, or expected in the future) and detects hazardous areas for a certain ship moving inside a port at a given moment, by means of the implementation of “virtual traffic lights”. The system was tested on some real situations, including the analysis of maritime accidents (stranding of ships), providing satisfactory results by correctly signalling potentially dangerous areas variable over time. The architecture of the system and results achieved using it in the ports of Livorno and Bari, in Italy, are herewith described.Maurizio SoldaniOsvaldo FaggioniMDPI AGarticlecoastal maritime transportmaritime safetyship accident preventionharbour waterside managementenvironmental monitoringmarine environment protectionTechnologyTEngineering (General). Civil engineering (General)TA1-2040Biology (General)QH301-705.5PhysicsQC1-999ChemistryQD1-999ENApplied Sciences, Vol 11, Iss 10265, p 10265 (2021)
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topic	coastal maritime transport maritime safety ship accident prevention harbour waterside management environmental monitoring marine environment protection Technology T Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TA1-2040 Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Physics QC1-999 Chemistry QD1-999
spellingShingle	coastal maritime transport maritime safety ship accident prevention harbour waterside management environmental monitoring marine environment protection Technology T Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TA1-2040 Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Physics QC1-999 Chemistry QD1-999 Maurizio Soldani Osvaldo Faggioni A System to Improve Port Navigation Safety and Its Use in Italian Harbours
description	This article describes research aimed at developing a system able to support local authorities and port communities in optimizing port navigation, avoiding or managing critical situations induced by sea-level variations in harbours and minimizing environmental damages and economic losses. In the Mediterranean basin, sea-level changes are mostly due to astronomical tides, related to the gravitational attraction between Earth, Moon and Sun. Nevertheless, sea-level variations are also influenced by meteorological tides, which are geodetic adjustments of sea surface due to atmospheric pressure variations above a water basin. So, starting from monitoring or forecasting environmental parameters in harbours, the system updates port bathymetric maps based on sea-level variations (acquired in the past, measured in real-time, or expected in the future) and detects hazardous areas for a certain ship moving inside a port at a given moment, by means of the implementation of “virtual traffic lights”. The system was tested on some real situations, including the analysis of maritime accidents (stranding of ships), providing satisfactory results by correctly signalling potentially dangerous areas variable over time. The architecture of the system and results achieved using it in the ports of Livorno and Bari, in Italy, are herewith described.
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title	A System to Improve Port Navigation Safety and Its Use in Italian Harbours
title_short	A System to Improve Port Navigation Safety and Its Use in Italian Harbours
title_full	A System to Improve Port Navigation Safety and Its Use in Italian Harbours
title_fullStr	A System to Improve Port Navigation Safety and Its Use in Italian Harbours
title_full_unstemmed	A System to Improve Port Navigation Safety and Its Use in Italian Harbours
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A System to Improve Port Navigation Safety and Its Use in Italian Harbours

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