1. VTS, risk and safety Gesa Praetorius & Anders Brödje Department of Shipping and Marine Technology Ship Work Environment and Safety Chalmers University of Technology
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6. VTS Intelligent Decision Support Systems = ?? part of Maritime Traffic Surveillance Research Project Saab TransponderTech AB
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8. Preliminary results – Understanding VTSO use of sensors CCTV Radar & AIS Mooring Operations VHF Harbour Planning & General adm. Pilot planning Meteorological information
Editor's Notes
The Vessel Traffic Service is a shore-side service to the maritime community implemented to promote and improve the overall safety in the shipping domain. The service´s goals are to improve the safety of navigation, safety of life at sea and to improve the protection of the the environment. A VTS can offer information service, traffic organization and navigational advice and assstance. Which services are offered depends on of the level of VTS. The VTS is shaped by international guidelines, but implemented locally by the Competent Authority, e.g. Swedish Maritime Administration
The research questions for my project were: How do VTS operators define risk and safety? what do VTS operators do to promote safety?
4 VTS centres were visited: VTS Ymuiden, Traffic Centre Hook of Holland, Sound VTS, which is located in Malmö, and VTS West Coast, located in Gothenburg. VTS operators and shore-based pilots were interviewed and observed at work to derive insight in how safety and risk are constructed as part of the operators’ daily work
The results of my study indicate that safety and risk are context-dependent conditions which are constructed by the VTS operators as part of their daily work. The results also indicate experience as key ingredient to good or overall safe decision-making. Although internationatel guidelines and local authorities set up a framework for the VTS´work, safety is constructed and enacted indivually as result of his/her own actions. And finally, safety arises through the interaction and cooperation of the VTS with other actors in the maritime domain, such as pilots, masters, lock masters etc.
The results of my study indicate that safety and risk are context-dependent conditions which are constructed by the VTS operators as part of their daily work. The results also indicate experience as key ingredient to good or overall safe decision-making. Although internationatel guidelines and local authorities set up a framework for the VTS´work, safety is constructed and enacted indivually as result of his/her own actions. And finally, safety arises through the interaction and cooperation of the VTS with other actors in the maritime domain, such as pilots, masters, lock masters etc.
The results of my study indicate that safety and risk are context-dependent conditions which are constructed by the VTS operators as part of their daily work. The results also indicate experience as key ingredient to good or overall safe decision-making. Although internationatel guidelines and local authorities set up a framework for the VTS´work, safety is constructed and enacted indivually as result of his/her own actions. And finally, safety arises through the interaction and cooperation of the VTS with other actors in the maritime domain, such as pilots, masters, lock masters etc.
The results of my study indicate that safety and risk are context-dependent conditions which are constructed by the VTS operators as part of their daily work. The results also indicate experience as key ingredient to good or overall safe decision-making. Although internationatel guidelines and local authorities set up a framework for the VTS´work, safety is constructed and enacted indivually as result of his/her own actions. And finally, safety arises through the interaction and cooperation of the VTS with other actors in the maritime domain, such as pilots, masters, lock masters etc.
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