Risk, Behaviour, and Innovation in Maritime Operations

Integrating Management Science and Behavioural Perspectives
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-28834-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Risk Management

This book presents a groundbreaking synthesis of operations research, management science and behavioural operations to explain how modern container terminals and maritime networks function under accelerating technological, environmental, and organisational pressures.

Bridging classical foundations with next generation digital ecosystems, the book positions ports as complex sociotechnical systems shaped simultaneously by automation, cyber physical integration, human decision pathways, and innovation dynamics rooted in creative destruction. The book is deeply empirical, drawing on massive maritime datasets to feed into reproducible modelling pipelines, with all computational logic and code provided to ensure transparency, replicability, and scholarly robustness. Rich case studies anchor the analysis across diverse operational theatres with the chapters showing how visual analytics, digital twins, simulation, and decision-support systems reveal hidden bottlenecks, behavioural anomalies, and cascading disruptions that traditional OR/MS models overlook.

This book is essential reading for scholars and practitioners in Operations Research, Management Science, Service Operations, Maritime Informatics, Behavioural Decision Science, and Complex Systems Engineering. It offers not only a theoretical advance but a fully reproducible computational ecosystem for analysing the next generation of maritime risk and innovation.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heydari, Mohammad

Lai, Kin Keung

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Transport- und Verkehrswirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Einkauf, Logistik, Supply-Chain-Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Foundations and Theoretical Framework 1. Introduction: Risk and Transformation in Container Terminals 2. Container Terminals in China and the Global Context 3. Behavioural Synthesis Risk Theory (BSRT): Concept and Application 4. Risk Typologies and Attributes in Container Terminals 5. Petri Nets, Bayesian Networks, and Agent-Based Models for Risk Modelling Part II: Applications in Container Terminals 6. Maritime Informatics and Real-Time Risk Monitoring 7. Decision Support and Scheduling under Behavioural Risk Uncertainty 8. Voyage Risk Analytics and Decision Support for Port Operations 9. Simulation and Practical Implications for Terminal Operations Part III: Systemic Risk Extensions 10. Vessel–Port Interdependencies and Future Directions 11. Ship Reporting and Communication Reliability in Port Safety Systems Appendix

Über Autor(innen)

Mohammad Heydari is a Lecturer at the School of Applied Business, Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand.

Kin Keung Lai is a Professor at International Business School, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China.