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Safety in the Dover Strait: a Progress Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

P. J. Gregory
P. J. Gregory
Affiliation:
(Marine Division, Department of Trade and Industry)
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AS readers of the Journal will know the Department of Trade and Industry set up in 1971 a Marine Traffic Systems Steering Group, to commission and coordinate research and development relating to the problems of marine traffic behaviour and to consider practical measures which could be undertaken as regards the Dover Strait area. The Group comprises mariners, economists, scientists and administrators from the Department of Trade and Industry including the National Physical Laboratory, representatives of the Civil Aviation Authority, the Ministry of Defence and, more recently, the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom and Trinity House. Hargreaves has recently described briefly some of the earlier work arising out of the Group's existence. This paper describes in more detail the activities of the Steering Group from the time of its first meeting in March 1971 to the present day (October 1973). Many of the results of this activity are already known to Members of the Institute as a result of the publication in the Journal of papers read at the Conference on Marine Traffic Engineering held at the N.P.L. in May 1972 and sponsored jointly by the Royal Institute of Navigation and the Royal Institution of Naval Architects.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , January 1974 , pp. 51 - 65
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1974

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