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Aids to Navigation Improvement to Optimize Ship Navigation
Aids to navigation are established to assist vessels in the navigation with special importance in narrow channels, rivers, or areas with special dangers to navigation. Whether the design of the aids to navigation (AtoN) system is optimum depends on ship positioning, which is affected by several factors: waterway geometry, metocean conditions, design ship, pilotage, and the AtoN themselves, being a crucial part of the design of a waterway.
Optimizing the type of signals and the distance between them allows, not only for safer navigation, but to expand the limits of the waterway by assisting larger vessels to move safely along the waterway, as well as to minimize dredging costs and dredging area by optimizing simultaneously the design of both: the waterway and the Aids to Navigation. An equilibrium is required between the investment and maintenance costs, and therefore, this combined assessment and optimization allows to finally get both, technically and economically feasible projects without detriments on the safety of the waterway.
The use of fast time manoeuvring models and Real Time Simulations allows to check and verify the optimization and improvements in the waterway and in the aids to navigation system. Real Time Simulators and manoeuvring sessions are the perfect place for all stakeholders (Port Authorities, Pilots, Harbour Masters, waterway designers, shipowners, …) to interact, discuss, evaluate, and agree on the best option for the improvement of navigation conditions while preserving the safety of the operations, as it allows to verify the effectiveness of the improvements before implementing them in the reality.
Aids to Navigation Improvement to Optimize Ship Navigation
Aids to navigation are established to assist vessels in the navigation with special importance in narrow channels, rivers, or areas with special dangers to navigation. Whether the design of the aids to navigation (AtoN) system is optimum depends on ship positioning, which is affected by several factors: waterway geometry, metocean conditions, design ship, pilotage, and the AtoN themselves, being a crucial part of the design of a waterway.
Optimizing the type of signals and the distance between them allows, not only for safer navigation, but to expand the limits of the waterway by assisting larger vessels to move safely along the waterway, as well as to minimize dredging costs and dredging area by optimizing simultaneously the design of both: the waterway and the Aids to Navigation. An equilibrium is required between the investment and maintenance costs, and therefore, this combined assessment and optimization allows to finally get both, technically and economically feasible projects without detriments on the safety of the waterway.
The use of fast time manoeuvring models and Real Time Simulations allows to check and verify the optimization and improvements in the waterway and in the aids to navigation system. Real Time Simulators and manoeuvring sessions are the perfect place for all stakeholders (Port Authorities, Pilots, Harbour Masters, waterway designers, shipowners, …) to interact, discuss, evaluate, and agree on the best option for the improvement of navigation conditions while preserving the safety of the operations, as it allows to verify the effectiveness of the improvements before implementing them in the reality.
Aids to Navigation Improvement to Optimize Ship Navigation
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Li, Yun (Herausgeber:in) / Hu, Yaan (Herausgeber:in) / Rigo, Philippe (Herausgeber:in) / Lefler, Francisco Esteban (Herausgeber:in) / Zhao, Gensheng (Herausgeber:in) / Redondo, Raúl (Autor:in) / Atienza, Raúl (Autor:in) / Pecharroman, Lourdes (Autor:in) / Pires, Leandro (Autor:in)
Smart Rivers ; 2022 ; Nanjing
26.02.2023
11 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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