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http://dx.doi.org/10.7837/kosomes.2015.21.1.025

A Study on the Marine Traffic Assessment based on Traffic Distribution in the Strait of Malacca  

Thanh, Nguyen Xuan (Navigation Faculty, Ho Chi Minh City University of Transport)
Park, Young-Soo (Division of Maritime Transportation Science, Korea Maritime University)
Park, Jin-Soo (Division of Maritime Transportation Science, Korea Maritime University)
Kim, Tae-Goun (Division of Maritime Transportation Science, Korea Maritime University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety / v.21, no.1, 2015 , pp. 25-33 More about this Journal
Abstract
The Strait of Malacca is one of the most important fairways in the world and its traffic safety has direct effect on economic development of East Asian countries including China, Japan and Korea. Because of this reason, a safety analysis of the marine traffic in the strait has a great significance. In this paper, we analysed the statistic distribution of marine traffic in the Strait of Malacca based on the vessels' AIS data for 1 month by using the TOAIS and EasyFit programs. As the results of the analysis, it was found that the traffic distribution of this strait was different with normal distribution, which had been still widely used in marine traffic engineering field. Furthermore, with the traffic distribution analysis results, the traffic safety of the strait was also assessed by using the IWRAP model. The results showed that the highest level of risk were overtaking and crossing situations. Finally, we found that the highest risk of collision area in the Strait of Malacca was crossing area between the Strait of Malacca and the Port Klang fairway.
Keywords
The Strait of Malacca; Traffic analysis; Distribution of traffic; Traffic risk assessment; The IWRAP model;
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