Operational Research into Marine Traffic and Collisions
- 1 October 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Navigation
- Vol. 21 (4), 490-503
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0373463300032380
Abstract
There is an urgent need, both at international and national level, for more operational research into marine traffic and the associated collision casualties. At the present time marine traffic research is in its infancy and official analysis of collision is on a national basis with few attempts to correlate the two together and on an international basis. Without this basic information and research on the traffic and accident pattern, it will not be possible to plan effectively to reduce the high cost of collision casualties to ships' operators and to make the necessary improvements in safety over the next decade. This decade will see increasing carriage of dangerous cargoes in bulk, a continual large increase in the number of pleasure boats and the current trend of increasing numbers of merchant ships, fishing and other work-boats will probably continue. Due to this large increase and the trend to mammoth ships, the effective amount of sea space is being rapidly reduced and traffic control is inevitable in some areas.Keywords
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