SafeMTS: Report on the Pilot
This report describes results of a pilot effort to test the feasibility of establishing a near-miss reporting program for the U.S. maritime industry. The effort, titled SafeMTS (Safe Maritime Transportation System), is a collaboration between the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and the Maritime Administration (MARAD), in partnership with the maritime industry. It aims to fill a gap in sharing of information on maritime precursor safety events, which can be used to develop preventive safety measures and lower the risk of more serious, or even catastrophic events. Seven maritime companies participated in the pilot by sharing sample near-miss records, working with BTS and MARAD to identify the scope of data that should be submitted to ensure data captured has appropriate learning value, and contributing to the development of the pilot “data key”—a set of baseline core data fields and values necessary for the collection of meaningful information about a near-miss event. An evaluation and summary of the pilot dataset, comprising 7,222 near-miss and hazard recognition events occurring between 2020 and 2022, is presented in this report as an illustration of analytics to be developed for the full program.
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Corporate Authors:
Department of Transportation
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Washington, DC United States 20590 - Publication Date: 2023
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 83p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Data collection; Databases; Maritime safety; Near crashes; Pilot studies; Water transportation crashes
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Marine Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01906509
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: NTL, TRIS, USDOT
- Created Date: Jan 31 2024 9:11AM