Visual Aids to Navigation: Dispelling Aid Availability Myths

Aid availability for the U.S. visual aids to navigation system is calculated monthly by the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Transportation Systems Management Directorate's Visual Aids to Navigation Division. These calculations can be presented by criticality category and broken down to various responsibility and servicing levels, including district, sector, servicing unit, waterway, and individual aid to navigation. Frequent updates and convenient data presentation lead many waterways managers to assume that aid availability provides a comprehensive assessment of the health and effectiveness of aids to navigation (ATON) in their waterways as well as the efficiency of their ATON service delivery units. This mistaken assumption has perpetuated several aid availability myths, which are listed and discussed in this article, as are the ongoing ATON resources that waterway managers have available to them.

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• Authors:
  • Trainor, Robert
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Photos; References;
• Pagination: pp 6-9
• Serial:
  • Proceedings of the Marine Safety & Security Council
  • Volume: 68
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: U.S Coast Guard Headquarters
  • ISSN: 1547-9676

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aids to navigation; Government funding; Ship navigational aids; Ship pilotage; Visual aids; Waterways
• Identifier Terms: United States Coast Guard
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01339988
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 3 2011 2:32PM