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Maritime Design for the 90% of Us:
Implementing InnovationRoberta Weisbrod,
Ph.D.Sustainable Ports
SNAME Annual Meeting 2012
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Defining the need
Why could this be of interest SNAME members?
How do we make it happen?
Maritime Design for the 90% of Us
Safe affordable ferries for developing nations
Role of ferry transport to economic life and social cohesion
Need for safety
Record of fatalities in developing nations
Statistics
Affordability
Defining the Need
Interferry amassed statistics:
Based on press accounts (not complete)
Counted fatalities, not number of missing
Listed by nation, date, vessel and specific causes
800+ year
Statistics(2000-present)
Analyzed record of fatalities
Published peer reviewed papers
Pilot project with Bangladesh
Causes
Sudden hazardous weather
Poorly trained crew
Overloaded vessels
Inappropriate old vessels
What are the causes of ferry fatalities?
Demonstration projects in Bangladesh and findings from information sharing forum for South East Asia – other causes amenable to correction:
Weather
Training
Overloading
Government policies
Economics
Addressing causes other than vessels
Sudden hazardous weather – tornadoes on water
Chatty beetle
Texting alerts
Future likely to bring advances – multi-use device with alert
Weather
Ferry safety training
Developing world nations:
Can’t afford new developed world vessels
Purchase after-market vessels, not necessarily appropriate for waterways
To a degree overloading related to vessels; also government policy
IMO study to begin
Vessels have been The intractable problem
Vessels and their overloading
Emerging markets, EM ( S. America, Africa, Asia) to be larger than US + EU in 2025
US companies benefit from “Reverse Innovation,” designing for EM.
Design for Other 90%: Think Different, “Deep innovation” meet functional need but with extreme affordability
Real opportunity in growing market
What’s in it for SNAME members?
Vessels aren’t only cause
Vessels highly complex
If such a great idea someone else would have already done it
Arguments against vessel focus
Recognize the good
Nigeria Eko waterbus
Philippines RoPax
Encourage investments
IMF
Encourage deep innovative design
Design competition
Promotion of concept
How to Push Innovation
Recognize the good: Eko Water Bus for Lagos
Recognize the good: Philippines RoPax
Philippines RoPax (interior)
IMF (branch of the WB)
Finance for private sector infrastructure in EM
Everything but ferries
But In response to our work, IMF reached out to us
IMF will now undertake ferry infrastructure projects
Important as example to other investors in private sector
Get funding for vessels
What have we done so far
Formed Advisory Committee (mostly SNAME members)
Worked with academic institutions (Webb, Stevens, SUNY)
Developed schedule
Research agenda in addition to design competition
Stevens students underway (Navy funding)
Gather contacts from schools and trade associations
Promotion
Apply for funding
Mount a Design Competition
News! Obtained grant
Grant allows us to:
Outreach widely to promote competition
Raise amount of prize money
Have more prizes
Award judges stipend/honorarium
Have a recognition ceremony
Design competition status
Jan 1, 2013 start
RFP for ferries from developing countries themselves
This year Bangladesh ferry from Dhaka
Quantitative as possible in terms of comparative costs
Elements of the Design Competition
Materials
Modes of construction
Hull design
Power production
Use of IT
‘Technology transfer from sectors beyond maritime industry’
Opportunities for innovation
To fellow SNAME members:
Where are ideas that could be applied?
Help promote: Academic institutions and trade associations/media that should be contacted
Additional utility beyond the competition
Next steps