IDEA:
L1-106 - Chloris, An Alternative For Sea Transportation

PILLAR:
C - Waterborne

RESEARCH AREA:
RA2 - Vehicles & Vessels Technologies, Design and Production

TEAM NAME:
Team Chloris

TEAM MEMBERS:
Barış Tığlı (Team leader)


UNIVERSITY:
Technical University of Istanbul

COUNTRY:
TURKEY

ABSTRACT:
	Chloris concept is based on a motivation that to create a sea transportation alternative for modern metropolises. Sea transportation in metropolises is an effective way to eliminate the traffic and to reduce time en route. However existent alternatives for sea transportation cannot satisfy passengers’ desire. In this respect, mass transportation fail to satisfy passengers’ rapid and flexible trip expectations and private sea cabs’ prohibitory pricing conception move people away from the sea. In the light of these facts an alternative transportation option requirement is came to light. For this purpose a cost-efficient vessel with 4 passenger capacity has been designed in this project. Design process has been progressed in the light of the main goals and these were this vessel to be fast, flexible and cheap. Rather than these, in sociological aspect modern metropolitan lifestyle force city-dwellers to live and travel more individually. As a combination of these reasons, this vessel to have 4 passenger capacity is unlike compared to the existent alternatives. By means of this feature Chloris projected to be vessel version of the land taxis. Moreover, various materials projected to manufacture an environmental friendly, fast and cheap vessel.
	Furthermore, for a realistic practice, Istanbul (Turkey) was selected as a subject city. 15 million population, excessive land and sea traffic and massive unused mass transportation capacity, Istanbul city is the best place to define and solve the sea transportations’ problems.
	During the study, a route analysis for existent alternatives which are mass transportation alternatives, private ferries and sea cabs; preliminary design of the vessel that includes definition of requirements, form development, general arrangement, weight estimation, equipment selection, scantling, viable materials research, engine selection, resistance, stability and seakeeping calculations; cost estimation for manufacturing which includes detailed initial and running cost estimation; and concept design of the vessel was made to accomplish the objectives.
