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Istanbul Strait is one of the most crowded, narrowest straits in the world. More than fifty thousand ships per year (more than one ship in ten minutes in average) pass through the Istanbul Strait. It is also assumed to be the most dangerous strait in the world due to its narrowness and nature of the sea flows in the straits. Even though the number of accidents has decreased in recent years, the risk is still high. Management of Istanbul Strait is indeed a difficult job required to control many parameters. For example, opening the strait for one or two way traffic, applying different queuing strategies, or scheduling of limited number of maritime pilots affect the strait traffic. In order to see the effect of changes in management related strategies, it may not be very practical to really apply the changes in the traffic management. Simulation of marine traffic in Istanbul Strait is very important to be able to see the effects of different management strategies and possible changes affecting the marine traffic without really applying them. This paper presents a simulation model for marine traffic in Istanbul Strait. AutoMod software is used to develop the simulation model. Different queuing strategies and management related issues are analyzed in the simulation and their effects are compared in this paper.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AW040 Marine Safety and Human Factors.

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13-1024

English

14p

2013

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Computer models; Risk analysis; Traffic queuing; Traffic simulation; Water transportation; Waterways

Bosporus (Turkey); Istanbul (Turkey)

Marine Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-1024

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Feb 5 2013 12:18PM