Print Email Facebook Twitter The Effect of Traffic Complexity on the Development of Near Misses on the North Sea Title The Effect of Traffic Complexity on the Development of Near Misses on the North Sea Author van Westrenen, Fulko (Umantec) Ellerbroek, Joost (TU Delft Control & Simulation) Date 2015-12-23 Abstract Vessel traffic is changing due to changing transport demands, larger ships, and new use of sea space, such as windmill parks. This may have an effect on the risks at sea. This paper uses ship state information provided by automatic identification system-messages to analyze the traffic on the North Sea. From the ship-state information conflict situations are selected, i.e., situations where the ships need to maneuver to avoid collision. In addition, situations of near-miss collisions are calculated. It was found that complex conflicts lead to more near misses. It was also found that near misses are not spread evenly over the sea but are concentrated in a number of specific locations. These findings may be important for the design of route structures for ships, as well as for investigations into methods to resolve complex conflict situations. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:36095af1-e224-4d6d-b930-111a5296e689 DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMC.2015.2503605 ISSN 2168-2216 Source IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 47 (3), 432-440 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2015 Fulko van Westrenen, Joost Ellerbroek Files PDF van_Westrenen_Ellerbroek_ ... th_Sea.pdf 9.25 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:36095af1-e224-4d6d-b930-111a5296e689/datastream/OBJ/view