This study examines ferry routes that arrive at a Central Business District (CBD) during peak periods. Ferries are investigated because in certain locations they provide an alternative to buses and private vehicles, with potentially faster and more reliable journey times. The objectives

This article introduces a planning framework for improving and best utilizing existing water and ferry resources. It presents an analysis framework and formulation for designing and evaluating passenger ferry routes. The motivation for this work emanates from problems encountered by the ferry

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci-entific research documents, whether they are pub-lished or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et a ̀ la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Annals of Operations Research manuscript No. (will be inserted by the editor) Theory of continuous polling systems applied to the

. The polling disciplines that are needed for modeling the FWLAN involve non-standard variants of gating disciplines. Our goal is to design the routes of the Ferry as well as the points where it should stop to distribute and collect packets. This mathematical modeling brings another dimension to the classical

station. The ferry thus serves as a relay that enables communication between the sensors and the base station. Our goal in this paper is to design optimal routes of the Ferry moving along which it distributes/collects the messages. Our analysis and optimization results build heavily on the theory

Message ferrying is a networking paradigm where a special node, called a message ferry, facilitates the connectivity in a mobile ad hoc network where the nodes are sparsely deployed. One of the key challenges under this paradigm is the design of ferry routes to achieve certain properties of endto

polling system. The polling disciplines that are needed for modeling the FWLAN involve non-standard variants of gating disciplines. Our goal is to design the routes of the Ferry as well as the points where it should stop to distribute and collect messages. This mathematical modeling brings another

-mances are highly unsteady. In such a periodic and disrupted network, Message Ferry (MF) is designed to collect and relay data between disconnected two ends. Our Fastest-Ferry Routing in DTN-enabled VANET (FFRDV) scheme extends MF to the disconnected VANET. Maximum velocity-based routing within the block benefits

. In this regards, this study presents general overview of Korea-China Car Ferry Route and evaluates the efficiency level of each operating route using DEA model. Incheon-Yingkou, Incheon-Lianyungang, Pyeong Taek-Lianyungang are analyzed as efficent routes, while from the view point of passenger efficiency, 4

. This paper presents two efficient message ferry routing algorithms, denoted as MFRA1 and MFRA2, for data collection in disconnected wireless sensor networks. Both algorithms are designed to find feasi-ble routes for the message ferry such that the buffers of sensors will not overflow after a complete