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A Tanker Navigation Safety System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

Brad Judson
Affiliation:
(GeoInfo Solutions, Victoria, British Columbia)

Extract

This paper summarizes the results of Phase 3 of the Arctic Tanker Risk Analysis Project (ATRA) which provided a prototype Tanker Navigation Safety System (TNSS). TNSS is a ship-board risk management system capable of route planning and decision support based upon a knowledge database. The objective of the project was to provide timely risk assessment information to a mariner or decision-maker in a system capable of integration with existing ECDIS or shipboard PC systems. The historical information was to include: accident location, frequency and type, ice, wind, visibility, environmental sensitivity and other factors. The specifications of the TNSS prototype were expanded so that risk could be assessed for each track in a route plan by applying a predictive accident model patterned after the navigation and collision avoidance process.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1997

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