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

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

MARITIME POLICY & MANAGEMENT, cilt.46, sa.4, ss.410-435, 2019 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 46 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2019
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/03088839.2019.1571644
  • Dergi Adı: MARITIME POLICY & MANAGEMENT
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.410-435
  • İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

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.