Channel Safety Assessment in Ship Navigation Based on Fuzzy Logic Model

With the progress of economic globalization, international shipping trade is developing fast, resulting in a gradual rise in the amount of transportation in channel. In turn maritime affairs occur more frequently due to that than before, and the circumstance of transportation in channel is getting more complex. It is a great influence to the safety of navigation as well as a problem must be solved about safety assessment. What is more, the development of a port cannot be sustained without the comprehensive assessment of the relative channel. Therefore, this paper tries to make an overall evaluation of channel safety. This paper establishes a multilevel index system and constructs a fuzzy logic model based on fuzzy set to give a complete assessment on the channel safety. Previous researches show that fuzzy logic model can be used to manage multi-factor in safety assessment. However, the application for channel safety is an experiment and innovation. The model is applied to Yangtze Estuary deep water channel, and reaches an conclusion roughly correspond to the practice. It has important value to make integrity planning of the channel.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AW040 Marine Safety and Human Factors.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Wu, Yuan
  • Hu, Hao
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC
  • Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
• Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 16p
• Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Channels (Waterways); Fuzzy logic; Maritime safety; Navigation; Risk analysis
• Geographic Terms: Yangtze River
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; I80: Accident Studies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01516396
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 14-2605
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 28 2014 1:32PM