Abstract
Service disruption hurts the reliability of liner shipping schedules and the lack of high-quality data impedes research on schedule recovery in liner shipping. With the support of the Automatic Identification System (AIS), a satellite-based tracking system acquiring real-time records of vessels’ navigation trajectories worldwide, this study develops a novel data-driven framework to uncover the vessel schedule disruption recovery behavior (i.e., port-skipping). The framework consists of a series of independent yet closely related algorithms, which are in turn tasked with screening port calls, estimating closed-loop routes, measuring similarity between different routes, and identifying port-skipping behavior, respectively. Compared with partial proprietary data from the shipping industry and port authorities, the identification results can provide transparent datasets with wide applications and much easier access publicly. The developed data-driven framework is implemented with vessel trajectory information of around 2,000 container vessels worldwide from January 2016 to December 2020, and the results prove its validity and practical value for liner shipping scheduling management.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 103229 |
| Journal | Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review |
| Volume | 176 |
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| Publication status | Published - Aug 2023 |
Keywords
- AIS
- Data mining
- Port-skipping
- Schedule recovery
- Vessel trajectory
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Business and International Management
- Civil and Structural Engineering
- Transportation