SHIP MANOEUVRABILITY ASPECTS AND HUMAN FACTORS

As a consequence of the increasing complexity of maritime traffic and the potential risk of casualties, the European research organisation COST 301 has allocated a programme to the study of ship manoeuvrability. This report reviews the work carried out within this cooperative project. The first part presents a state-of-the-art summary of ship manoeuvrability studies from both the theoretical and experimental aspects. The experimental methodologies and instrumentation most widely used both for full scale and model scale are briefly illustrated and the utilisation of experimental results in the preparation of data banks and for verification of predictional procedures is discussed. The second part of the report examines the impact of human factors on ship navigation. The research approach in this case is essentially the experimental one, both through collection of data on the decisional process and through measurements made in the field or on a research simulator. The final part deals with the statistical analysis of simulator results and their application to the definition of qualitative manoeuvring safety indices for a total ship-control-environment system.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Centra per Gui Studi di Tecnica Navale, Publication No. 59, Oct. 1984 (83 pp., 41 ref., 13 graphs, 12 diag.)
• Authors:
  • Chilo B
  • Della Loggia, B
• Publication Date: 1984

Language

• English

Subject/Index Terms

• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00688683
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: British Maritime Technology
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 14 1995 12:00AM