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An information service is a service to ensure that essential information becomes available in time for onboard navigational decision-making. The information service is provided by broadcasting information at fixed times and intervals or when deemed necessary by the vessel traffic service or at the request of a vessel, and may include for example reports on the position, identity and intentions ...
Sea traffic management (STM) is a methodology, developed by the Swedish Maritime Administration [1] MonaLisa project, endorsed by the European Commission, [2] sought to define a set of systems and procedures to guide and monitor sea traffic in a manner similar to air traffic management. [2]
Vessel traffic management (Vessel Traffic Service, situation displays etc.) Canal transit management; Maritime de-confliction; Safety statistics (via data logging & playback, snapshot files) Pilot navigation (ETA, closest point of approach, dead reckoning) Accident investigation (via data logging and playback) Buoy positioning; Oil spill ...
If a ship wants to cross a traffic-lane it should do so at a right angle to avoid endangering ship traffic using the traffic-lanes (although traffic in the lane does not automatically have the right-of-way [1]). To minimize the amount of time a crossing ship spend crossing the traffic-lanes, there should be a right angle between the lane ...
A U.S. Coast Guard Operations Specialist using AIS and radar to manage vessel traffic. An AIS-equipped system on board a ship presents the bearing and distance of nearby vessels in a radar-like display format. A graphical display of AIS data on board a ship.
The ship's current cruise, which left for a planned round-trip sailing from Baltimore on March 24, will end in Norfolk on Sunday. Passengers will then receive free bus rides to Baltimore.
A TSS is typically created in locations with large numbers of ship movements and vessels travelling in different directions and where there might otherwise be a high risk of collisions. Details of traffic separation schemes and similar routing-systems can be found on Admiralty charts. [1]
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