Semantic intelligence in a seaport context

This research work proposes the framework for seaport partners to interact on a semantic level and scope related with jurisdictions/ecosystems and regions to share knowledge among partners. New steps towards dealing with the traditional common sense for managing or governing the seaport are required for assisting the new generation of managers and port authorities. Sematic intelligence answers dilemmas of complex realities and alignments of strategies such as which strategic position may have the seaport facing the growing number of international networks and international treaties. In management and computational sciences, semantic intelligence has been discussed mostly from technological perspectives; however, a higher thinking intelligence for managing and govern the seaport surplus the classical intelligence approach found in literature

Decarbonisation of seaports: A review and directions for future research

Marine activities in seaports account for circa 3% of total carbon emissions worldwide, prompting several initiatives to decarbonise their energy systems and make seaports smarter and greener. This paper provides a thorough and authoritative review of the vast array of research in this field, including past and ongoing initiatives. The study reveals that existing research leverages recent advances in digital technologies while focusing on one or several of the following themes: carbon reduction, use of renewable energy resources, cost-performance optimisation, deployment of smart control technologies, the regulatory landscape for greening seaports, and implementing green port practices guidelines. As such, the paper provides a critical review of existing technologies and concepts that promote and contribute to the decarbonisation of seaports, including Smart Grids and Virtual Power Plants. Several avenues for future research are then discussed, including (a) total life cycle approach to seaport energy management, (b) Semantic-based modelling, forecasting and optimisation of seaports energy systems, (c) Secure and reliable seaports energy services, and (d) Transition towards prosumer-driven seaport energy communities. The paper concludes by emphasising the importance of an adapted energy regulatory landscape at a national and EU-wide level to meet EU phased energy reduction targets

Dynamics in Logistics

This open access book highlights the interdisciplinary aspects of logistics research. Featuring empirical, methodological, and practice-oriented articles, it addresses the modelling, planning, optimization and control of processes. Chiefly focusing on supply chains, logistics networks, production systems, and systems and facilities for material flows, the respective contributions combine research on classical supply chain management, digitalized business processes, production engineering, electrical engineering, computer science and mathematical optimization. To celebrate 25 years of interdisciplinary and collaborative research conducted at the Bremen Research Cluster for Dynamics in Logistics (LogDynamics), in this book hand-picked experts currently or formerly affiliated with the Cluster provide retrospectives, present cutting-edge research, and outline future research directions

The Origin and Implementation of the Smart-Sustainable City Concept: The Case of Malmö, Sweden

The concept of a smart-sustainable city (SSC) has recently come to dominate urban sustainability political agendas and academic discourses in Europe. This thesis investigates (1) the origination of the SSC concept, (2) how it is being framed as an approach to sustainable urban development, and (3) how it can be contextualized in concrete projects and urban planning initiatives in the city of Malmö, Sweden. The SSC is founded on the convergence of several prevailing international trends: the devolution of international environmental governance to the local level; the increasing use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in urban planning and development; and the decentralization of economic policymaking to municipal governments. As a strategic approach to sustainable development, an SSC is one that promotes the use of ICT and collaborative public-private partnerships as the primary means of balancing green economic growth with low carbon, sustainable development. This concept is founded on the significant potential of ICT to promote energy and resource efficiency in urban services and systems and to drive behavioral changes as citizens make more data-informed decisions about their lifestyle and consumption patterns. Proponents argue that more collaborative partnerships in cities foster coordination, innovation and attract necessary resources to help cities address complex sustainability problems. While the SSC concept has been criticized by some social science researchers for its overemphasis on technology and for reframing urban sustainability challenges as market opportunities for private companies and corporations, the case of Malmö reveals a more positive outlook. The Malmö example shows that ideas and strategies inherent within the SSC concept can successfully create technologically and ecologically advanced neighborhoods, but also risk excluding parts of the city and its population from accessing any benefits created. While the SSC concept is not without its faults, contradictions and hyperbole, this thesis concludes that the SSC model for sustainable development can offer opportunities to engage a diversity of actors in finding solutions to a city’s most pressing and complex sustainability challenges

Influence of strategic interrelationships and decision-making in chilean port networks on their degree of sustainability

Indexación ScopusAn extensive literary review is carried out to determine the strategic and business advantages, and difficulties that non-smart ports must face to develop sustainability. Based on a two-port case study, the strategic text of the corporate missions of port administrators and operators is analyzed and classified in order to understand to what extend economic, social and environmental aspects are fulfilled. A conceptual model is designed for an information system based on indicators that can determine the state or degree of sustainability in the critical operational activities of the ports studied. A system is proposed that is based on a data warehouse core and a multidimensional database, which can be implemented in the Relational On-Line Analytical Processing (ROLAP) mode, allowing taking advantage of the good characteristics of relational databases without losing the On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) approach. A discussion of the strategic feasibility of implementing this conceptual model of case study monitoring and its long-term benefits is delivered. The conclusions state that the development of this green technology requires cultural changes, public policy initiatives and the incorporation of new actors. In addition, more research is needed in this area to identify other relevant sustainable variables. © 2021 by the authors.https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/7/395

Greening Cities Shaping Cities: Pinpointing Nature-Based Solutions in Cities between Shared Governance and Citizen Participation

The topic of pinpointing Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in the urban context has been cultivating interests lately from different scholars, urban planning practitioners and policymakers. This Special Issue originates from the Greening Cities Shaping Cities Symposium held at the Politecnico di Milano (12–13 October 2020), aiming at bridging the gap between the science and practice of implementing NBS in the built environment, as well as highlighting the importance of citizen participation in shared governance and policy making. The Special Issue was also made open to other contributions from outside the symposium in order to allow for contributions from a major scientific and practical audience wherever possible. Indeed, we have gathered contributions from Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey, Brazil, Portugal, Denmark, France, Bulgaria, Sweden, Hungary, Spain, the UAE, the UK, and the USA

Sustainability in the digitally optimised maritime industry

The increasing volumes in global maritime trade are associated with accumulating stresses and adverse effects on the environment. Measures such as stricter regulations and renewed legislation are implemented to pivot the industry towards global sustainable development goals. While the end goal of achieving carbon neutrality remains problematic and slow-going, several short-term solutions could be found. This study aims to explore how digitalisation can support the sustainable development of the maritime industry, focusing primarily on enhancing port efficiency. The purpose of the study is divided into two sub-questions: what are the sustainability impacts of the maritime industry, and how could digitalising port calls impact shipping emissions? The study's theoretical framework consists of three large concepts; sustainability, digital transformation, and the maritime industry's complexity, particularly the port operations, are discussed. The research method used in this study is quantitative, as the research problem is best addressed by processing numerical data. The results of the study are in line with previous research, indicating that optimising the port operations and reducing waiting time could have significant impacts on CO2 emissions. Lowering the CO2 emissions leads to the sustainable development of the environment and economic and social sustainability as the cost savings have the potential to reach billions of USD and have positive effects on social well-being. While change on a global scale may not be viable to implement due to development maturity, more realistic scenarios, such as a change in top 30 GDP countries, depict the ability to implement digitalisation and JIT shipping effectively and at scale. By leveraging their current infrastructure and economic capabilities, these countries alone could produce significant sustainability impacts while remaining competitive. To tackle the global issue of climate change, the decision-makers should thus invest and incentivise the maritime actors to optimise their operations that directly lead to the industry's sustainable development.Maailman meriteollisuuden kasvuun liittyy lisääntyviä stressitekijötä ja haitallisia ympäristövaikutuksia. Toimenpiteitä, kuten tiukempia määräyksiä ja uudistettua lainsäädäntöä, toteutetaan, jotta ala saataisiin kohti globaaleja kestävän kehityksen tavoitteita. Vaikka lopullinen tavoite hiilineutraaliuden saavuttamiseksi on edelleen ongelmallinen ja hidas saavuttaa, voidaan useita lyhyen aikavälin ratkaisuja ottaa käyt-töön. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on selvittää, miten digitalisaatio voi tukea mer-iteollisuuden kestävää kehitystä keskittymällä ensisijaisesti satamatehokkuuden paran-tamiseen. Tutkimuksen tarkoitus on jaettu kahteen alakysymykseen: mitkä ovat meren-kulkualan kestävän kehityksen vaikutukset ja miten satamatoimintojen digitalisointi voi-si vaikuttaa merenkulun päästöihin? Tutkimuksen teoreettinen kehys koostuu kolmesta suuresta käsitteestä; kestävästä kehityksestä, digitaalisesta muutoksesta ja merenkulkualan, erityisesti satamatoimintojen monimutkaisuudesta. Tutkimusmenetelmänä käytetään kvantitatiivista menetelmää, sillä tutkimusongelmaan voidaan parhaiten pureutua analysoimalla numeerista dataa. Tutkimuksen tulokset ovat aiempien tutkimusten mukaisia, ja ne osoittavat, että sa-tamatoimintojen optimoinnilla ja odotusajan lyhentämisellä voi olla merkittäviä vaikutuksia hiilidioksidipäästöihin. Hiilidioksidipäästöjen vähentäminen johtaa ympäristön kestävään kehitykseen sekä taloudelliseen ja sosiaaliseen kestävyyteen, sillä kustannussäästöt voivat saavuttaa miljardeja dollareita ja vaikuttaa myönteisesti so-siaaliseen hyvinvointiin. Vaikka globaalin mittakaavan muutos ei välttämättä ole toteut-tamiskelpoinen sen kehityksen kypsyyden vuoksi, realistisemmat skenaariot, kuten muutos 30 parhaan BKT-maan joukossa, kuvaavat kykyä toteuttaa digitalisaatio ja just-in-time (juuri ajoissa) tehokkaasti ja laajamittaisesti. Hyödyntämällä nykyistä infra-struktuuriaan ja taloudellisia valmiuksiaan nämä maat yksin voivat tuottaa merkittäviä kestävyysvaikutuksia pysyen kilpailukykyisinä. Ilmastonmuutoksen maailmanlaajuisen ongelman ratkaisemiseksi päätöksentekijöiden olisi siten investoitava ja kannustettava merenkulun toimijoita optimoimaan toimintaansa, mikä johtaa suoraan alan kestävään kehitykseen

Greening Cities Shaping Cities

The topic of pinpointing Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in the urban context has been cultivating interest lately from different scholars, urban planning practitioners and policymakers. This Special Issue originates from the Greening Cities Shaping Cities Symposium held at the Politecnico di Milano (12–13 October 2020), aiming at bridging the gap between the science and practice of implementing NBS in the built environment, as well as highlighting the importance of citizen participation in shared governance and policy making. The Special Issue received contributions from all over the world, from Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey, Brazil, Portugal, Denmark, France, Bulgaria, Sweden, Hungary, Spain, the UAE, the UK, and the USA

1st TRIMIS Horizon Scanning Session

The Transport Research and Innovation Monitoring and Information System (TRIMIS) is an open-access transport policy-support tool developed and managed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) to support the implementation of the Strategic Transport Research and Innovation Agenda (STRIA). One of the main objectives of TRIMIS is to provide a forward-oriented support to transport research and innovation (R&I) governance by using foresight in its technological and socioeconomic assessment process related to transport R&I. Within the TRIMIS framework, horizon scanning is applied through a structured and systematic collaborative exercise that contributes to the identification of new and emerging transport-related technologies and trends, with a potential future impact on the transport sector. Furthermore, it supports the assessment of current and future research needs and provides transport related insights to the broader European Commission foresight system contributing to a higher-level strategic framework also covering the transport domain. As part of this process, on 26 September 2019 the TRIMIS team, with support from the Unit for Knowledge Management and the EU Policy Lab of the JRC organised a sense making session entitled the 1st TRIMIS Horizon Scanning Session. It aimed at gathering insights from various transport experts with different backgrounds and make sense of previously collected, transport-related horizon scanning items through a process that could provide indications on relevant trends, new drivers of change, weak signals, discontinuities or shocks/’wild cards’/sudden unexpected events/’black swans’. This report collects and analyses the experiences that were shared and discussed during the session along with the supplementary material and initial results. Furthermore, it acts as a first input to the next step of the TRIMIS Horizon Scanning process that will involve policymakers with a focus on transport R&I.JRC.C.4-Sustainable Transpor

Decarbonising fishery ports through smart cluster energy systems

The rising energy prices at seaports and fishing industries pose a major challenge because the pace of work and high demand for fish products has increased dra‐matically. This comes at a time of growing international pressure and global moti‐vations to address climate change and reduce carbon emissions in many different sectors of the economy. In the literature review, a few research studies were found to highlight the op‐timal use of power energy in ports, while some studies proposed certain measures that contribute to some extent to reducing energy consumption and carbon emis‐sions. However, there is an absence of a study that discusses the possibility of de‐veloping a holistic energy analysis and management that can be scaled from a site to a community level to achieve economically and environmentally viable benefits to the community. The research study that is described in this thesis aims to develop a compre‐ hensive integrated system for the optimal use of energy in seaports through the de‐velopment of a smart grid system that is based on the renewable energy at Milford Haven Port, which was developed and used as an applied case stud. It is hoped that this study will contribute to reducing energy prices and that the port will achieve economic benefits by sharing its surplus power with the national grid. A five‐stage research methodology has been developed, starting with the pro‐ cess of collecting and analysing data on fishery buildings, known as and energy audit. It then develops energy simulation models at the port using energy simula‐tion software. The next stage aims to propose a smart grid model at multi‐levels, namely a building, port and a community of 200 houses around a fishery port. The next stage consists of the development of two smart decision‐making systems: the first aimed at sharing surplus power with the neighbours of the port through a Peerto Peer (P2P) energy sharing approach; and the second aims to achieve financial in‐comes for the port by selling surplus power to the national grid when energy prices rise, a price‐based control strategy is used in this system The model was developed and tested within 24 hours on randomly selected days during the four seasons of the year. The simulation was characterised by the fact that it was carried out instantaneously to get an accurate result, which resem‐ bles a real‐life system. In addition, the optimal number of energy storage systems was determined at multi‐levels, which achieve the self‐sufficiency of the electric power that is needed to meet the energy demand during the day. Finally, a proposed road map has been developed to achieve nearly zero carbon fishery ports that can be applied to different ports in different locations