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Commercial vessels utilize anchorages on a regular basis for various reasons such as waiting for loading/unloading, supply, and bad weather conditions. Recent increase in demand for anchorage areas has mandated a review of current anchorage planning strategies. In particular, current state-of-the-art anchorage planning algorithms assume that the anchorage areas are of uniform depth, which is quite unrealistic in general. In this study, we introduce an algorithmic modification to current anchorage planning methods that takes into account non-uniformity of anchorages. By exploiting the depth non-uniformity, our algorithm significantly improves the number of vessels that can be accommodated in an anchorage and it can easily be incorporated into existing anchorage capacity planning decision support systems.
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This work was supported by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), Grant No. 113M489. We would like to thank Turkish Directorate General of Coastal Safety for providing us the historical traffic data for the Ahırkapı Anchorage.
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Malekipirbazari, M., Oz, D., Aksakalli, V., Alkaya, A.F., Aydogdu, V. (2015). Capacity Planning in Non-uniform Depth Anchorages. In: Neves-Silva, R., Jain, L., Howlett, R. (eds) Intelligent Decision Technologies. IDT 2017. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 39. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19857-6_3
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