Energieffektivisering av linjesjöfarten till och från Tasmanien
Tasmania is a state in Australia, and is also the country?s largest island. It is separated from the main land by a 429 kilometer wide strait. Every year, a large amount of people, cars and goods are transported to the island using a government owned ferry line, which generates approximately 300 million Australian dollars to the state?s economy ,every year. This bachelor thesis investigates the possibility of reducing the fuel consumption for the ferry traffic to and from Tasmania, which would also reduce the overall cost. This would additionally contribute to lowering the distress on the environment because of a decrease in greenhouse gas emissions, and by doing this it would contribute to a more sustainable transport scenario in the future. The analysis is completed by a model in Matlab mathematical calculation software) that will find an optimized transport scenario. The Matlab model, which consists of data from today existing ferries, is used to analyze different ways to combine these ferries in order to find the solution with the least fuel consumption. The results show that a combination of two of the ferries that are in the model would give an optimized transport scenario. To let these two ferries operate the ferry line to and from Tasmania, instead of the ones that are currently running, could cut the fuel consumption in half every year.