RT journal article
T1 Use of AIS data for the environmental characterization of world cruise ship traffic
A1 Vicente-Cera, Isaías
A1 Acevedo Merino, Asunción
A1 López Ramírez, Juan Antonio
A1 Nebot Sanz, Enrique
A2 Tecnologías del Medio Ambiente
K1 Cruise traffic
K1 AIS data
K1 wastes productions and emissions
K1 environmental characterization of world cruise traffic
AB Cruise tourism industry has experienced significant global growth in recent years in terms of new passengers, fleet size, ports visited, and economic value. Therefore, the main environmental impacts resulting from this activity such as exhaust emissions, wastewater discharges, and solid waste should be researched since most of them can be released directly into the ocean and atmosphere. This study develops a methodology that combines automatic identification system (AIS) data as well as reports belonging to different companies and environmental agencies, in order to assess environmental pressures related to global cruises’ traffic along their paths. Three innovative indexes are proposed to help assess environmental impacts of world cruise fleet (equivalent fulltime navigation vessel, areal cruise traffic pressure, and route cruise traffic pressure), displaying the most crowded routes by unit of length and water masses by unit of area. This methodology can allocate hot spots of activity and quantify the production of waste and emissions worldwide. Moreover, the results from the proposed method allow calculating the world cruise fleet production (2015–2017), resulting in the last year studied in 23 Mt/year of CO2 and34 hm3/year of wastewater, in addition to many other calculated wastes.
PB Taylor and Francis
SN 1556-8318
YR 2019
FD 2019-02-26
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/30485
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/30485
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad-FEDER, Proyecto AVANTE. [CTM2014-52116-R, 2014].
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 10-nov-2026