In maritime transportation system (MTS), ports and ocean routes are essential for establishing maintaining effective international trade routes. However, the ability of to send receive goods can be easily destroyed by political natural interferences. This will cause a significant negative socio-economic impact such as port operation suspension route disruption. Effectively implementing resilien...

The economies of coastal communities around the Great Lakes have historically been dependent upon maritime transportation. Urban ports and waterways continue to accommodate expanding trade, growth of tourism, and recreational boating. Even in this challenging economic period, planned expansions in the iron-ore, slab-steel, low-sulfur coal, and nonferrous metals industries and growing tourism in...

In 1999, Typhoon 9918 struck Kyushu Island, which is located in Western Japan. During the strongest stage of the typhoon, the central pressure was 930 hPa and the maximum wind speed was 45 m/s near the center of the typhoon. The maximum storm tide was over 2 m along the coast of Kumamoto Prefecture on Kyushu Island. Due to the storm surges and wind waves, the typhoon caused enormous damage to m...

One of the current challenges in urban planning concerns the urban transportation involving multi-mode transportation. One of the ways to evaluate different situations in order to make decisions of how, when and where to invest is using multimodal traffic simulation. This paper presents a review about multimodal traffic simulation, identifying the state of art and directions for future work. Ke...

Recent work in the assessment of risk in maritime transportation systems has used simulation-based probabilistic risk assessment techniques. In the Prince William Sound and Washington State Ferries risk assessments, the studies' recommendations were backed up by estimates of their impact made using such techniques and all recommendations were implemented. However, the level of uncertainty about...