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Work packages Work Package 1 (LP) Kotka Maritime Research Centre The task of the Lead Partner (LP) is to implement the project coordination, increase project's publicity and visibility in all medias, e.g., arrange seminars and press conferences, update and launch www-pages, distribute brochures, publish press releases and spread knowledge of the project to the public and the highest governmental level in Finland and Estonia. Work Package 2 (WP2) University of Turku, Centre for Maritime Studies WP2 produces basic data of current cargo flows, infrastructure and actors in the Gulf of Finland and importance of the cargo flows for business and society. In addition, future changes and cargo flow development are estimated. Based on these analyses, alternative routes for traffic flows in case of an emergency are studied. Work Package 3 (WP3) Lappeenranta University of Technology, The Northern Dimension Research Centre (NORDI) In WP3, alternative scenarios of operational environment in the extreme situations will be examined. Firstly, the analysis comprises of the possible emergency situations that could affect the Gulf of Finland cargo flows and the consequences of possible emergency situations for the actors in business and public sector. Secondly, the environmental effects of road and rail transportations on the alternative transport routes will be studied. In addition, the opportunities and threats for the operations of sea ports in the area of Baltic Sea Region and inland logistics centres in South-East Finland will be examined. Work Package 4 (WP4) Estonian Maritime Academy WP4 includes determining the threats posed by crises for energy traffic flows in the Baltic Sea region and especially in the Gulf of Finland. The analysis will discuss oil and chemical flows and alternative routes, environmental, social, economical and political risks associated with oil transportation in emergency situations. Work Package 5 (WP5) Lappeenranta University of Technology, Kouvola Research Unit In this study, WP5 will analyze different types of emergency situations occurring at the arbitrary periods of time (within defined investigation period) through computer based simulation models. Mostly system dynamics simulation is used for this purpose, but the utilization of more advanced methods are also emphasised during the implementation of the project, for example, agent based simulation. These initial and small-scale agent models enable the use of advanced artificial intelligence in the project, among complex command structures in the models; until today it has not been possible to conduct these with other approaches. |
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