As long as only a few ships sail in the harbor area, regulations are not needed. But as the number of ships grows, they may become hazardous to each other. To reduce the risk of collision rules of conduct have to be adopted. With a further increasing number of ships, the need to make a more efficient use of facilities increases too, and safety gets more emphasis. Now regulation takes place on a secondary level. Ships must report their movements to the shore, captains have to be advised by pilots, and shipping is supplied with information from the shore. In several ports or congested shipping areas, a saturation point has already been reached. Therefore serious endeavours are being made to develop something that could be called a third level vessel traffic management system, with instructions given to shipping from a shore based surveillance station. Even a fourth level system is being developed in which management strategies for a complete port area are developed in a traffic center. To be able to select the proper measures the traffic center must know the effects of a particular measure. For instance, how are safety and efficiency affected by a particular admittance strategy, what are acceptable limits with respect to density, what is the effect of allocation of an extended domain for a particular ship on the behaviour of other ships. These kind of questions must be answered before a measure is taken. In this paper the attention is focused on the problem of how this information can be obtained.
Safety and Efficiency Aspects of Vessel Traffic in the Port of Rotterdam
1982
21 pages
Report
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Englisch
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