A maritime safety on-board decision support system to enhance emergency evacuation on ferryboats

Sarvari P. A., Çevikcan E., Celik M., Üstündağ A., Ervural B.

Maritime Policy and Management, vol.46, no.4, pp.410-435, 2019 (SSCI, Scopus) identifier identifier

  • Nəşrin Növü: Article / Article
  • Cild: 46 Say: 4
  • Nəşr tarixi: 2019
  • Doi nömrəsi: 10.1080/03088839.2019.1571644
  • jurnalın adı: Maritime Policy and Management
  • Jurnalın baxıldığı indekslər: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Səhifə sayı: pp.410-435
  • Açar sözlər: decision support system, emergency evacuation, ferryboat, Marine transportation, simulation
  • Açıq Arxiv Kolleksiyası: Məqalə
  • Adres: Bəli

Qısa məlumat

Planning emergency evacuation operations in a proactive manner in public marine transportation systems is a critical success factor for passenger and crew safety. Despite the fact that there is a growing attention on safety issues for marine transportation systems, providing a real-time decision support for evacuation planning under different emergency conditions has not yet been addressed. In this context, this paper contributes to the related literature by providing a comprehensive methodology including simulation and statistical analysis along with a three-module decision support system (DSS) for ferryboat emergency evacuation. Emergency evacuation and fire environment are simulated via Maritime EXODUS V5.1 and SMARTFIRE V4.3, respectively. The methodology is applied to a real-life Ro-Ro ferry, and the results not only revealed significant factors on emergency evacuation performance, but also demonstrated the validity of the developed decision support system.