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Modeling and Analysis of Vessel Traffic in Delaware River and Bay: Risk Assessment and Mitigation
204-RU6532.pdf (27.58 Kb)
Project #: 204 RU6532
Fiscal Year: FY2007/2008
Rutgers-CAIT Authors:
Tayfur Altiok
External Authors:
Sponsor:
NJDOT, Maritime Division
Status: In Progress
Summary:
The SAFE Port Act of 2006 (PL 109-711) requires Area Maritime Security Plans to include a salvage response plan intended, inter alia, to ensure that commerce is quickly restored to US ports following a transportation security incident. Accordingly, this motivates the need to study and analyze the risks inherent in Delaware River and Bay vessel traffic, to be better able to develop a post incident recovery strategy. Accordingly, the CAIT-DIMACS Laboratory for Port Security (LPS) at Rutgers University proposes a collaborative project to study the following issues:
- Vessel traffic in the Delaware Channel, including current practices in handling dangerous cargo vessels and vessel delays at Delaware Bay.
- The economic impact of vessel activity along the Delaware Channel.
- Risk analysis and mitigation strategies for safe and efficient traffic management and port operations.
- Prioritization of Delaware Channel vessel traffic in the course of recovery from a channel closing high-consequence incident (collision, ramming, grounding, fire, or explosion, stemming from an accident or a terrorist activity). The prioritization methodology will be based on an economic analysis that will consider the strategic importance as well as key risk factors of each vessel cargo.