2024
VISIR-2 peer-reviewed paper:
2023
Preprint of the VISIR-2 documenting paper:
2022
An assessment of the first four years of THETIS-MRV data:
Impact of COVID-19 on CO2 emissions from ferries:
2021
First results of the new model upgrade in python (VISIR-2):
2020
Evaluation of VISIR’s solution vs. a PDE-based model by MIT:
- G. Mannarini, D. N. Subramani, P. F. J. Lermusiaux and N. Pinardi, “Graph-Search and Differential Equations for Time-Optimal Vessel Route Planning in Dynamic Ocean Waves,” in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 3581-3593, Aug. 2020, doi: 10.1109/TITS.2019.2935614.
- source code of the evaluation exercise: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8815853/algorithms?tabFilter=code#algorithms
A first dive into reported CO2 emission data from ferries:
- Mannarini, G., Carelli, L., Salhi A.: EU-MRV: an analysis of 2018’s Ro-Pax CO2 data. In 21st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), pages 287–292. IEEE, 2020, doi:10.1109/MDM48529.2020.00065.
2019
VISIR-1.b: the latest update of the model for including ocean currents: this manuscript includes a thorough description of its governing equations, validation, performance, extensive case studies:
Further thoughts on open science and open maritime data:
- Mannarini, G.: Delivering open science for contributing to the societal challenge of climate change.
in 5th AtlantOS project newsletter, 2019 [download]
First comparison of VISIR tracks to AIS maritime traffic data:
Some thoughts on open maritime data:
- Mannarini, G., Towards an analytics of optimal ship routes based on meteo-oceanographic datasets
in Proceedings of the CMRE Maritime Big Data Workshop, E. Camossi, A.-L. Jousselme (Eds.), La Spezia 2018 [download]
2018
Initial results on EEOI savings via operational vessel route optimisation:
- Mannarini, G., Pinardi, N., Coppini, G.: Low Carbon Intensity Routes via Ocean Currents and Waves
in Technology and Science for the Ships of the Future, A. Marinò and V. Bucci (Eds.) IOS Press, 2018. doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-870-9-340 [download]
2017
Contribution to AtlantOS Science-Policy Briefing Paper #2:
- Fritz, Jan-Stefan, Ketelhake, Sandra, Pinardi, Nadia, Horsburgh, Kevin, Mannarini, Gianandrea and Lehodey, Patrick: Science-Policy Briefing Paper and Event 2, AtlantOS Deliverable, D10.7 . AtlantOS, 4 pp. DOI 10.3289/AtlantOS_D10.7. [download]
Preliminary results on the introduction of surface ocean currents into VISIR:
- Mannarini, G., Coppini, G., Lecci R., Turrisi, G.: Sea Currents and Waves for Optimal Route Planning with VISIR, in 16th International Conference on Computer and IT Applications in the Maritime Industries (Cardiff, 2017) ISBN 978-3-89220-690-3 [download]
2016
The ultimate and comprehensive documentation of VISIR model:
VISIR’s code architecture and the goals of a future community of VISIR developers:
- Mannarini, G., Pinardi, N., Coppini, G.: VISIR: A Free and Open-Source Model for Ship Route optimization, 15th International Conference on Computer and IT Applications in the Maritime Industries (Lecce, 2016) [download]
A technical presentation of the operational system for providing VISIR on PC, tablets, and smartphones:
2015
VISIR’s extension to sailboats:
- Mannarini, G.; Lecci, R.; Coppini, G., “Introducing sailboats into ship routing system VISIR,” in Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA), 2015 6th International Conference on , vol., no., pp.1-6, 6-8 July 2015, doi: 10.1109/IISA.2015.7387962 [download]
An invited contribution to a workshop organized by the Italian Navy on greening of maritime transportation:
2013
The seminal publication about what eventually became the VISIR ship routing system: