Estimation of exhaust ship emission from marine traffic in the straits of Singapore and batam waterways using automatic identification system (AIS) data

This study focuses on the strait of singapore and batam waterways area because it is one of the world’s most congested straits used for international shipping. the study aims to estimate exhaust gas emission and the concentration of emission to several areas around the strait. this is accomplished by evaluating the density of shipping lanes in the strait by using the data which obtained by automatic identification system (ais). meet methodology is used to estimate emissions from ships. there were 1269 total number of ships through the strait on september 27,2014 at 06.00 am-08.00 am produces total exhaust emission for nox,co,co2,voc,pm and sox were about 12595.35 g/second (15.99%),25725.19 g/second (32.66%),11832.31 g/second (15.02%),5973.23 g/second (7.58%),443.71 g/second,(0.56%),22185.57 g/second (28.17%),respectively. the ships under the singapore flag contribute approximately 22.78% of total emissions in the strait of singapore and batam waterways followed by panama,indonesia and malaysia 14.47%,3.67%,1.91%,respectively. based on the total emission rates hips under indonesia and malaysia rank of seventh and eighth respectively. © 2015 penerbit utm press. all rights reserved.