Dynamic capabilities of maritime infrastructure: conceptual design of merchant vessels with usability in crisis
Abstract Today’s social infrastructure, e.g., transportation, medical services, energy supply and distribution, may become temporarily unable to provide functions due to the damage to buildings or excessive congestion resulting from threats, such as natural disasters, rising sea levels,...
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2023
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| author | Hirayama, Satoshi Ichinose, Yasuo Wanaka, Shinnosuke Moser, Bryan Hiekata, Kazuo |
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Today’s social infrastructure, e.g., transportation, medical services, energy supply and distribution, may become temporarily unable to provide functions due to the damage to buildings or excessive congestion resulting from threats, such as natural disasters, rising sea levels, pandemics. Maritime-based responses, typified by hospital ships, are drawing attention as a method to mitigate these effects. However, while designing emergency infrastructure, it is necessary to consider not only the value of these systems in emergencies but also during normal times. This study adopts the systems approach, a set of methods to conduct decision-making when complex stakeholders’ relationships are involved. We focus on medical functions and propose a conceptual design for a flexible hospital ship with dynamic capability during emergencies as well as normal times. Specifically, we examine the optimal combination of ship type, size, navigation range during normal times, operations during emergencies, and contract approaches. Quantitative evaluation of utility during emergencies and economic efficiency are considered in tradeoff. In addition to the conventional cost-based study, we examined benefit–cost through ship sharing, in which ships are leased to the private sector as merchant vessels during normal times to generate revenue. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1487982024-01-12T21:04:55Z Dynamic capabilities of maritime infrastructure: conceptual design of merchant vessels with usability in crisis Hirayama, Satoshi Ichinose, Yasuo Wanaka, Shinnosuke Moser, Bryan Hiekata, Kazuo System Design and Management Program. Abstract Today’s social infrastructure, e.g., transportation, medical services, energy supply and distribution, may become temporarily unable to provide functions due to the damage to buildings or excessive congestion resulting from threats, such as natural disasters, rising sea levels, pandemics. Maritime-based responses, typified by hospital ships, are drawing attention as a method to mitigate these effects. However, while designing emergency infrastructure, it is necessary to consider not only the value of these systems in emergencies but also during normal times. This study adopts the systems approach, a set of methods to conduct decision-making when complex stakeholders’ relationships are involved. We focus on medical functions and propose a conceptual design for a flexible hospital ship with dynamic capability during emergencies as well as normal times. Specifically, we examine the optimal combination of ship type, size, navigation range during normal times, operations during emergencies, and contract approaches. Quantitative evaluation of utility during emergencies and economic efficiency are considered in tradeoff. In addition to the conventional cost-based study, we examined benefit–cost through ship sharing, in which ships are leased to the private sector as merchant vessels during normal times to generate revenue. 2023-03-27T18:31:55Z 2023-03-27T18:31:55Z 2023-03-20 2023-03-26T03:12:26Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/148798 Hirayama, Satoshi, Ichinose, Yasuo, Wanaka, Shinnosuke, Moser, Bryan and Hiekata, Kazuo. 2023. "Dynamic capabilities of maritime infrastructure: conceptual design of merchant vessels with usability in crisis." PUBLISHER_CC en https://doi.org/10.1007/s00773-023-00932-x Creative Commons Attribution http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The Author(s) application/pdf Springer Japan Springer Japan |
| spellingShingle | Hirayama, Satoshi Ichinose, Yasuo Wanaka, Shinnosuke Moser, Bryan Hiekata, Kazuo Dynamic capabilities of maritime infrastructure: conceptual design of merchant vessels with usability in crisis |
| title | Dynamic capabilities of maritime infrastructure: conceptual design of merchant vessels with usability in crisis |
| title_full | Dynamic capabilities of maritime infrastructure: conceptual design of merchant vessels with usability in crisis |
| title_fullStr | Dynamic capabilities of maritime infrastructure: conceptual design of merchant vessels with usability in crisis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dynamic capabilities of maritime infrastructure: conceptual design of merchant vessels with usability in crisis |
| title_short | Dynamic capabilities of maritime infrastructure: conceptual design of merchant vessels with usability in crisis |
| title_sort | dynamic capabilities of maritime infrastructure conceptual design of merchant vessels with usability in crisis |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/148798 |
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