Optimal decision making for emissions reduction measures for Italian container terminals

2021 ◽  
pp. 147509022110276
Author(s):  
Fabio Ballini ◽  
Seyedvahid Vakili ◽  
Alessandro Schönborn ◽  
Aykut Olcer ◽  
Monica Canepa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Use ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Container Terminals ◽  
Optimal Decision ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Shipping Industry ◽  
Sea Ports ◽  
Operational Activities ◽  
Alternative Sources

The importance of sea ports in the global logistics maritime supply chain and it connectivity is increasing, as is the focus on optimizing daily operational activities and minimizing the negative impact on society. One of the most significant negative externalities for sea ports is air pollution that remain one the main concern and environmental priority for Port Authorities and Government and their strategic policies. The growth of containerization in the shipping industry stimulates the demand for infrastructure development and increased energy use. This paper strives to propose the best alternative sources of energy to transit from traditional fuel to the greener ones for two important container terminals in Italy. The analyses focus on energy consumption of the most important container terminals Voltri and La Spezia in Italy and analysed using alternative sources of energy. Based on the priorities chosen by twelve experts, the cost, societal and environmental criteria are assigned the highest weight respectively. The Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) and the Technique for Order Performance by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) techniques are used, to identify the best alternative sources of energy.

scholarly journals Sustainability issues in maritime transport and main challenges of the shipping industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Koilo
Keyword(s):  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Oil Prices ◽  
Maritime Transport ◽  
Shipping Industry ◽  
Maritime Industry ◽  
The Relationship

Considering the rapid development of oceanic logistics, the maritime traffic is one of the worst offenders for air and water pollution. This paper primarily aims to explore the key concepts and terms applied to denote the sustainability issues in maritime transport and main challenges for the shipping industry. The present study investigates the existing sustainability frameworks on the relationship between sustainability and maritime industry. Also the author proposes to use modelling approaches to measure the relationship between oil prices, exchange rate, services export and ocean transport value added. The empirical findings indicate that growth rate of the crude oil prices has negative impact on ocean transport value added growth, and it can be traced that the oil industry has a strong influence on value creation in maritime clusters and their competitiveness, especially on the shipping sector. The analysis also sheds light on the impacts of relationship between environmental pollution and maritime cluster activity (through the validation of the EKC hypothesis in Norway). The current paper reveals that there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between economic growth and CO2 emissions. The empirical evidences show that the links between CO2 emissions and ocean transport value added are more significant than with energy consumption indicator. It can be assumed that, due to the energy efficiency policy and technological leadership in the shipping industry, the environmental impact of energy use (renewable energy) has improved.

Community Development and Role of Tourism: A Case Study of Tourist Destination Manali in Himachal Pradesh (India)

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Himachal Pradesh ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The Government ◽  
Agriculture Products

Tourism sector has a significant role in the economic development of our country. Tourism sector has contributed 6.88 percent to the GDP and has 12.36 percent share in employment (direct and indirect) in the year 2014. It has also a significant share in foreign exchange earnings. The benefit of tourism mostly goes to the local community (Sonya & Jacqueline, Mansour E. Zaei & Mahin E. Zaei, 2013). In this paper, an attempt has been made to assess how the tourism industry has created an opportunity for the economic, political, social and cultural development of the local community at Manali in Himachal Pradesh (India) and also tried to study the problems that are associated with the tourism in the region. The study found that the tourism industry has been extending its contribution for the development of local community at Manali. It has been providing employment, business and investment opportunities, revenue generation for the government, encouraging the community to promote and preserve its art, culture and heritage, raising the demand of agriculture products, provided opportunities for local people to run and work in the transport business and by promoting MSMEs in the region. Besides the opportunities, the tourism industry has also added many problems to the local community. Traffic congestion, increase in water and air pollution, solid waste generation, degradation of the cultural heritage, ecological imbalances, rise in cost of living, increase in crime, noise and environment pollution, migration of people to the region, negative impact on local culture, and extra pressure on civic services during the tourists season, are the problems associated with the tourism. The study suggest that effective management of natural resources, dissemination of environment protection information, involvement of local community in decision making, professionalization in the working of local administration, extending the support of government in sponsoring the events, infrastructure development, tracking records of migrants with the help of local community to curb the crime rate, promotion and preservation of art, culture and heritage, involvement of NGOs, compliance of the rules can make tourism more beneficial in the development of local community.

scholarly journals Evaluation of CO2 emissions and energy use with different container terminal layouts

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Arif Budiyanto ◽  
Muhammad Hanzalah Huzaifi ◽  
Simon Juanda Sirait ◽  
Putu Hangga Nan Prayoga
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Container Terminal ◽  
Container Terminals ◽  
Future Planning ◽  
Container Handling

AbstractSustainable development of container terminals is based on energy efficiency and reduction in CO2 emissions. This study estimated the energy consumption and CO2 emissions in container terminals according to their layouts. Energy consumption was calculated based on utility data as well as fuel and electricity consumptions for each container-handling equipment in the container terminal. CO2 emissions were estimated using movement modality based on the number of movements of and distance travelled by each container-handling equipment. A case study involving two types of container terminal layouts i.e. parallel and perpendicular layouts, was conducted. The contributions of each container-handling equipment to the energy consumption and CO2 emissions were estimated and evaluated using statistical analysis. The results of the case study indicated that on the CO2 emissions in parallel and perpendicular layouts were relatively similar (within the range of 16–19 kg/TEUs). These results indicate that both parallel and perpendicular layouts are suitable for future ports based on sustainable development. The results can also be used for future planning of operating patterns and layout selection in container terminals.

scholarly journals Infrastructure development potential financial market of Ukraine

VUZF Review ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-128
Author(s):  
Natalia Trusova ◽  
Iryna Chkan ◽  
Inna Yakusheva
Keyword(s):  
Financial Market ◽  
Foreign Currency ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Conceptual Basis ◽  
Is Research ◽  
External Threats ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Methodological Approaches

The research of infrastructural potential of development of the financial market of Ukraine in globalization conditions is research. The importance of forming a rational infrastructure of the financial market and finding sources to increase its potential is substantiated. The conceptual basis for ensuring the realization of the infrastructural potential of the financial market is presented, which is based on defining the basic preconditions, principles and tasks of the conceptual basis and developing methodological approaches to assessing the quality of the conceptual basis for building and realizing the infrastructural potential of the financial market. It is proved that the number and structure of financial intermediaries is one of the key characteristics of the development of the financial market and its infrastructure, as well as its response to global challenges. The dynamics of the penetration of insurance and lending by banks to the real sector of the economy tends to decrease, which indicates their negative impact on the security of the financial market as a whole. The dollarization index is twice the critical value, which also has a negative impact on the level of financial market security. In the context of ensuring the security of the technological component of the infrastructure potential of the financial market in Ukraine and its ability to withstand external threats, the authors propose to define the indicator of financial market flexibility as the ratio of foreign currency deposits to total deposits (dollarization). The lower this figure, the higher the level of financial market security.

scholarly journals Simulation Analysis on Dangerous Goods Accident in Container Terminals

2020 ◽  
Vol 206 ◽  
pp. 03004
Author(s):  
Qiao Jianzhe ◽  
Shou Youping ◽  
Zhao Junjie
Keyword(s):  
Simulation Analysis ◽  
Container Terminal ◽  
Container Terminals ◽  
Shipping Industry ◽  
Dangerous Goods ◽  
Calculation Results

In general, transportation of Dangerous Goods in the port and shipping industry is mainly based on the container. This paper summarized the types of container terminal accidents, and put forward a method to select source of pollutants, and showed pollution range of typical accidents, provided the basis for the decision of management department. Taking a domestic container terminal as an example, the calculation results show that, under the premise of taking corresponding measures, the pollution range of accidents is not wide, and the risk is controllable.

Harmonized web-based information systems for shallow geothermal energy use in Austria

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelia Steiner ◽  
Gregor Goetzl ◽  
Martin Fuchsluger ◽  
Alexander Rehbogen
Keyword(s):  
Geothermal Energy ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Green Energy ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Information Platform ◽  
Groundwater Availability ◽  
Shallow Geothermal Energy ◽  
Cover Ratio

<p>Neither regional development, construction projects nor infrastructure development – structural planning does not fully consider energy supply in Austria (yet). The project “Spatial Energy Planning for Heat Transition” is part of the research initiative “Green Energy Lab”, which has a project life-time from June 2018 to May 2021. It aims to provide a sound basis for the integration of heat in private and public planning processes and for the implementation of the energy infrastructure of the future together with energy providers.</p><p>Three Austrian states (Vienna, Styria and Salzburg), their capital cities and pilot-municipalities of all scales work together to provide all information necessary for the implementation of spatial heat-planning – as role model for Austria and other European countries. The GIS-based web-tool “heat-atlas” will provide this harmonized data and serve an information platform for project developers as well as for regional planning, fostering a sustainable use of all available sustainable energy resources and infrastructures to their full extent. The system of the information platform is arbitrarily scalable and is aimed to be expanded to other interested regions of Austria on demand.</p><p>One part of this “heat-atlas” is about shallow geothermal energy and covers vertical closed loop and open loop systems. The Geological Survey of Austria developed new methods to estimate capacity and energy resources as well as to show possible limitations of shallow geothermal energy use on property level. The resource calculations combine location-specific parameters such as thermal conductivity, underground temperature and groundwater availability with system-specific parameters such as mode of operation, operational hours, geometry and threshold values demanded by official regulations.</p><p>The method provides not only information about the maximum amount of energy available on the property, but also about the cover ratio of the demand. So called level-1 maps show the resources for standardized well-doublets and borehole heat exchangers independently of the property. The calculations for level-2 maps consider site-specific properties such as heating and cooling demand, operational hours and size of the property. This enables the estimation of the overall energy resources and the cover ratio of the property.</p><p>The results are shown as maps and as location specific query, which gives a concise summary of all relevant information for one location in form of an automatically generated report. More information about the project is available at http://www.waermeplanung.at/.</p>

scholarly journals How much gene flow is needed to avoid inbreeding depression in wild tiger populations?

2014 ◽  
Vol 281 (1789) ◽  
pp. 20133337 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kenney ◽  
Fred W. Allendorf ◽  
Charles McDougal ◽  
James L. D. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Gene Flow ◽  
Inbreeding Depression ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Genetic Load ◽  
Habitat Connectivity ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Population Isolation ◽  
Source Populations ◽  
Seven Generations

The number and size of tiger populations continue to decline owing to habitat loss, habitat fragmentation and poaching of tigers and their prey. As a result, tiger populations have become small and highly structured. Current populations have been isolated since the early 1970s or for approximately seven generations. The objective of this study is to explore how inbreeding may be affecting the persistence of remaining tiger populations and how dispersal, either natural or artificial, may reduce the potentially detrimental effect of inbreeding depression. We developed a tiger simulation model and used published levels of genetic load in mammals to simulate inbreeding depression. Following a 50 year period of population isolation, we introduced one to four dispersing male tigers per generation to explore how gene flow from nearby populations may reduce the negative impact of inbreeding depression. For the smallest populations, even four dispersing male tigers per generation did not increase population viability, and the likelihood of extinction is more than 90% within 30 years. Unless habitat connectivity is restored or animals are artificially introduced in the next 70 years, medium size wild populations are also likely to go extinct, with only four to five of the largest wild tiger populations likely to remain extant in this same period without intervention. To reduce the risk of local extinction, habitat connectivity must be pursued concurrently with efforts to increase population size (e.g. enhance habitat quality, increase habitat availability). It is critical that infrastructure development, dam construction and other similar projects are planned appropriately so that they do not erode the extent or quality of habitat for these populations so that they can truly serve as future source populations.

scholarly journals The impact of transport infrastructure projects on sustainable development within a major logistics gateway in North West England

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Paraskevadakis ◽  
Alan Bury ◽  
Jin Wang ◽  
Jun Ren ◽  
Stephen Bonsall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
The Impact

Abstract In the North West of England the issue of a perceived infrastructure gap is of increasing concern. Investment needs to be made to improve the transport infrastructure of the region if it is to be expected to promote the development of its own regional logistics gateway. Funding tools have been set up to address the challenges arising from the imbalance in infrastructure development that exists between regions in the north of the United Kingdom and those in the south. For regions with well developed economies the outlook is promising as the availability of modern transport infrastructure looks set to improve. However, some sources believe that the development of new transport infrastructure will have a negative impact upon sustainable development. It is expected that this will occur in a range of both direct and indirect ways. As a result, it is critical that planning for the creation of new intermodal transport infrastructure, or the upgrading of that which already exists, takes into account the impact that these developments will have on the sustainable development of the host region. A scenario based development methodology is proposed in this paper. It was developed to provide a way to identify potential scenarios that may arise within a given region as a result of transport infrastructure projects. To create significant scenarios the methodology is dependent on the availability of a sufficient quantity of quality data. For this paper that data was collected through a focus group composed of stakeholders from the region in question. This was further supported by the performance of an impact survey using the same group of stakeholders.

scholarly journals Perspectives of Development and Enhancement of the Efficiency of the Functioning of Small Forms of Business on the Village

2019 ◽  
Vol 19(34) (3) ◽  
pp. 108-115
Author(s):  
Vadym Tkachuk ◽  
Oksana Vitriak
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
State Support ◽  
Manufactured Products ◽  
Low Education ◽  
System Improvement ◽  
Resource Support ◽  
The Village ◽  
Statistical Indicators ◽  
Significant Factors

The article substantiates the prospects for the development and increase of the functioning efficiency of small farming forms in the countryside. Particular attention is paid to the study of factors that have a negative impact on the farms and households functioning. Based on the analysis of statistical indicators, it has been established that the most significant factors that have a negative impact on the functioning of small farming forms in the countryside are the difficulty of manufactured products realization, insufficiently effective state support, lack of developed infrastructure, low education level of households' heads. In order to minimize the negative impact of the identified range of problems, it is proposed to introduce preventive measures in the following areas: the state support system improvement, infrastructure development, the production base and resource support improvement, integration relations development.

scholarly journals LOGISTIC ACTIVITIES IN BELARUS: TRENDS AND CHALLENGES

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 506-514
Author(s):  
P. V. Bozhanov
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Container Terminals ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Storage Space ◽  
Logistics Systems ◽  
Cargo Transport ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Freight Forwarding ◽  
Logistics Performance Index ◽  
Logistics Activity

Main results of investigations on logistics activities in the Republic of Belarus at year-end 2016 are presented in the paper. The paper identifies and analyzes basic components of this activity on the basis of economic evaluation of indices presented in annual State statistical reporting on logistics and transport and freight forwarding activities of the Republican organizations according to form 1-logistics (Mintrans – Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Belarus), a report of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Belarus on the results of the implementation of Republican Program for development of logistics systems and transit potential of the Republic of Belarus for the period of 2016–2020, World Bank reports on logistics performance index, some indices of logistics infrastructure position and also results of electronic questionnaire of the largest logistics centers of the Republic of Belarus. Methods of comparative analysis, generalization and economic analysis have been used in the process of research. The analysis has shown that a network of logistics centers with various specialization and forms of property are located and operating in all regions of the Republic of Belarus. Most of them are situated in the Minsk region near the II and IX trans-European transport corridors and in the Brest region near the border with Poland. Structure of the logistics centers includes temporary storage warehouses, customs warehouses, warehouses for general use, container terminals, car parking, customs clearance office, and automotive, railway and other cargo transport facilities. Indices of logistics activity in the Republic of Belarus demonstrate its development in 2016. Storage space of logistics centers and main financial and volumetric indices of logistics activity which are included in the State statistical reporting have been increased during in recent times. These facts testify to the demand for logistics capacity of the Republic of Belarus and its efficient economic and infrastructure development.

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