EXPERIMENTAL AUTOMATIC VESSEL TRAFFIC SYSTEM FOR THE PORT OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

The paper describes the system, with emphasis on the system architecture and software features. The San Francisco vessel traffic system has fully automatic detection and tracking of all ships under radar surveillance. It provides the VTS watchstander with a variety of hazardous situation detection and traffic analysis services. A brief history of the development cycle is given. The existing system is described in terms of the services that it provides the watchstander. The system implementation is described in terms of the major software design concepts. The experience gained in San Francisco indicates that future automatic vessel traffic systems have certain desirable properties.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Also available from Netherlands Maritime Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Maritime Traffic Systems, Proceedings of an International Symposium, The Hague, Netherlands, April 11-14, 1976.
• Corporate Authors:

  Delft University Press

  Heemraadssingel 112, Postbus 1474
  Rotterdam,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • Grauling, C
• Conference:
  • Also available from Netherlands Maritime Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Maritime Traffic Systems, Proceedings of an International Symposium, The Hague, Netherlands, April 11-14, 1976.
• Publication Date: 1976

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 176-191

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Control systems; Highway traffic control; Information processing; Port traffic; Ports; Radar; Surveillance; Traffic control; Vessel traffic control; Water traffic; Water transportation
• Geographic Terms: California
• Old TRIS Terms: Waterway transportation
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00157110
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 19 1977 12:00AM