Post date: Nov 24, 2015 11:10:7 AM
One main change that we have faced so far is changing the public transpiration section of our project. Previously, we were focusing on calculating passenger miles and determining the speeds of different legs of the boat paths. However, we determined that this would be nearly impossible to calculate and would not offer as much to our project as other methods. The method that we came up with was to calculate passenger counts of public transportation boats coming from cruise ships that in Venice. There is much moto ondoso that is created from all of the boats that come from these cruise ships, and there also existed a gap in the Venice Project Centers previous data which this data we collect would fill. We would count the number of public transportation boats that come from the cruise ships and then count the passengers on each ship. This will be done by having two students stationed on the Giudecca island to spot the boats and communicate them to two students stationed at the San Marco boat stop who will then count the passengers that get off of these boats.
From this data, we will be able to make this cruise ship departing system more efficient and fill the gap in the VPC's data. This optimizing could be done in many ways such as changing the type of boats used, making the current boats more efficient, eliminating trips made by boats with no passengers, introducing a more concrete scheduling system, etc.
We have also been continuing to meet with Gregorio to further develop our boat hull models and learn how to reduce moto ondoso. With public transportation boats, we learned that the main thing to do is to make them lighter and have as little volume as possible while still being able to fit enough passengers.
We believe that our project is coming along well and we have continued to enjoy our work and free time here in Venice.
The Wakes Team