Journal of Naval Sciences and Engineering

113 - 128

Authors: Özgenur AKTAN

The purpose of this review is to critically evaluate Peter Leeson’s paper in which he argues that piracy as profit-seeking criminal activity may produce socially desirable outcomes and achieve a social order and then, concludes that criminals’ self-interested and profit-seeking activities are capable of producing public benefits in the context of invisible hand. More precisely: the purpose is to critically discuss and evaluate Leeson’s general conclusion, line of reasoning and to present counter-arguments in the context of invisible hand and pirates’ relative racial tolerance policy towards black sailors in their crews. Leeson tries to investigate the political economic and social impacts of piracy in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century and argues that black crew members’ economic and social status in pirate ships were more progressive compare to the legitimate merchant ships. Leeson reads black crew members’ status in pirate ships as an improvement in racial equality, economic and social justice. Therefore, he concludes that self-interested and profit-seeking criminal activities are capable of producing socially laudable outcomes. In contrast to Leeson, the argument in this review is that self-interested and profit-seeking criminal activities are not capable of producing socially laudable outcomes.

159 - 172

Authors: Elif BOZKAYA

Energy saving technologies for smart vehicles have great importance because of decreasing total energy consumption. It is estimated that the cost of energy will increase in the near future. Here, Road Side Units (RSUs) are the dominant contributing components to the overall energy consumption in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). This paper investigates the energy efficiency of RSUs by proposing an energy management model for ITS. Energy efficiency can be achieved if as many as possible RSUs switch off while maintaining an acceptable quality of service. The aim is to present a way to improve total energy efficiency by scheduling RSUs with a switching on/off model so that total energy consumption of RSUs can be managed.