Research Needs to Reduce Maritime Collisions, Rammings, and Groundings.

Abstract

This report contains an evaluation of the research needed to prevent marine casualties--specifically collisions, rammings, and groundings--associated with vessel controllability. A review of existing studies and casualty data, combined with the committee's experience, resulted in the identification of four major categories of marine-casualty factors: personnel; ports and waterways; aids to navigation; and vessel characteristics, maneuverability, and hydrodynamics. A significant amount of research on systems, hardware, and human behavior exists that is applicable to these categories. However, there are important gaps in basic hydrodynamic research. The committee further determined that a basic problem in the maritime industry is not so much the lack of research, but a need to disseminate information, coupled with coordination of research and a serious effort to apply existing knowledge. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA100092

Entities

Organizations

  • National Research Council

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Psychology
  • Control Systems
  • Databases
  • Engineers
  • Human Behavior
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Human-Machine Systems
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Literature Surveys
  • Marine Transportation
  • Maritime Industry
  • Motor Skills
  • Naval Architecture
  • Organizational Structure
  • Psychology

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Maritime Security/Maritime Homeland Security