We have studied the efficient operation of the radar and the appropriateness of the installation location, when constructing the VTS system. As the Civil-Military Complex Harbour (Kangjeong Port) is completed in 2016, we set the control area within 10 nautical miles centering on Kangjeong Port, and found out and removed the operational radar blind area of VTS system to provide safe navigation information for vessels that navigating this area. Assuming that two international cruise ships entering at the same time, we performed the radar simulation and compared the images by considering the three sites of Kangjeong Port, Miaksan and Seoguipo Port. Simulation results for a single radar installed at Kangjung Port indicate that the blind area was largely affected by two large cruise ships and the surrounding islands. The blind area due to Kogunsan was considerably large when installed in Miaksan, but the blind area due to the influences of Beomseom, Moonseom and Seopseom was negligibly large. It seems that additional radar installation is necessary as a complementary solution to solve this blind area. When two radars were installed at Miaksan and Kangjeong Port, the residual blind area due to the Seopseom was 0.25 km2 at 0.1~0.33 nautical miles in the southeast direction from Seopseom. In addition, the remaining blind area with two cruise ships mutually influenced was 0.18 km2, which did not occur with a single cruise ship.

세계 주요 항만에서 해상안전관리의 주요한 수단으로 자리잡은 VTS는 향후 E-네비게이션을 비롯하여 해상과 항만의 각종 데이터를 총괄하는 데이터 베이스의 중심이 될 것으로 전망되고 있다. 다양한 정보의 수집과 분석이라는 측면에서 최근에 주목되고 있는 빅 데이터 개념을 포함한다면 VTS를 통해 수집할 수 있는 데이터의 범위와 정보 분석 능력 및 활용범위를 향상시키기 위한 연구가 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 통신 빈도와 같이 정량적 분석 위주로 접근했던 기존 연구와는 달리 VTS 통신의 목적이나 유형과 같은 분석을 포함하여 관제대상 선박에 대한 정보와 각 통신의 소요시간까지 수집하였다. 이렇게 수집된 정보의 여러 항목을 교차하여 비교하고 분석할 수 있는 데이터 수집 모델을 본 연구에서 제시하여 관제통신 건수, 방식, 관제 유형방법, 선종별 통신량 및 법령 위반건수 등을 분석하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 이 연구 결과 (1) 부산항 북항의 경우에는 정보전달 형태의 관제가 빈번하고, 특정한 선종의 선박과 통신이 편중되어 있으며 (2) 관제 채널 청취 불이행, 항로 준수 위반의 법령 위반 사항이 자주 발생하고 있으나 통신량의 혼잡으로 인하여 소극적인 관제가 수행되고 있다는 사실을 알 수 있었다. 이렇게 수집된 정보는 IALA Guideline에서 작업부하로 지적하고 있는 ‘상황인지가 가능한 수준의 관제통신량’에 대한 분석 자료로 활용할 수 있으며 향후 e-내비게이션 연구를 위한 데이터베이스로 이용될 수 있을 것이다.

It has been well acknowledged that Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) has played a growing important role to ensure the safety of navigation in the busy ports and waterways. However, the benefits produced by VTS are usually ignored by the public and private sectors. Besides, the previous evaluations generally exist following problems: (1) It is difficult to collect the data for the parameters in the evaluation models and/or the parameters are designed illogically; (2) Those models did not take the following factors into consideration such as reducing the frequency of coastal vessel patrolling and saving human and material resources; (3) It is difficult to clearly discriminate the benefits derived from VTS and non-VTS. In this paper, a framework is presented to calculate the benefits of VTS in China. Four key indicators (safety, traffic efficiency, environmental protection and reducing supervising cost) and quantitative methods have been introduced into the framework. When calculating the benefits quantitatively, the traffic condition before the construction (expansion) of the VTS has acted as a benchmark. For a case study, the project of the expansion of VTS in Zhoushan Port, East China was evaluated with 10-year data. According to the results, the largest contribution is from the benefit of environmental protection. Via Cost-benefit analysis the benefit cost ratio (B/C) of the VTS is up to 5.248, which shows the benefits produced by VTS are considerable. The research could provide references for VTS benefits evaluation and investment optimizing.

According to the statistics of the last five years, fishing vessel accidents accounted for about 80% of collisions of all ships and has led to many casualties. To prevent collision accidents, it is important to assess the collision risk potential related to the sailing characteristics of fishing vessels. The authors represented the traffic patterns of vessels that sail around Wando waters based on Automatic Identification System (AIS) and Radio Detecting and Ranging (RADAR) data. The authors analyzed the statistical near miss data between fishing vessels and non-fishing vessels in the Wando Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) area and assessed the risk of ship collisions. From this research, the authors identified waters with a high risk of ship collisions. The analyzed results can be used as basic data to develop collision prevention strategies which aides the decision making and efficient operation of VTS officers (VTSO.)

This paper describes the application method of bumper area defined in the ship domain theory and it is to identify risky sectors in VTS(Vessel Traffic Services) area. The final goal of this work is to develop early warning system providing the location information with high traffic risks in Mokpo VTS area and to prevent the human errors of VTS Officer(VTSO). The current goal of this paper is to find evaluation and detection method of risky sectors. The ratio between overlapped bumper area of each vessels and the summing area of a designated sector, Ratio to Evaluate Risk(RER) r is used as one of evaluation and detection parameter. The usability of overlapped bumper area is testified through three kinds of scenarios for various traffic situations. The marine traffic data used in the experiments is collected by AIS(Automatic Identification System) receiver and then compiled in the SQL(Structured Query Language) Server. Through the analysis of passing vessel‘s tracks within the boundary of Mokpo VTS area, the total of 11 sectors are identified as evaluation unit sector. As experiment results from risk evaluation for the 11 sectors, it is clearly known that the proposed method with RER r can provide the location information of high risky sectors which are need to keep traffic tracks of vessel movements and to maintain traffic monitoring by VTSO.