연안해역의 해상교통관제 방안에 관한 연구

Abstract

This study recognized that wide area vessel traffic management system is necessary at the traffic congested area and/or environmentally sensitive water through the survey on the international trends on VTS. Also IMO and IALA have recommended to implement a VTS at the waters having a high traffic density, conflicting & complex navigation pattern, difficult hydro-graphical & hydrological elements, many records of marine casualties and/or narrow channels. Furthermore the Canadian and other researches revealed that the estimated effect of VTS on accident prevention is much higher in Open waters than Confined waters.

This study comprehensively assessed the marine traffic features in Mokpo water through the traffic survey at four(4) locations. The results shows that there are high traffic density, number of narrow channels, many ships carrying hazardous cargoes, and many encounters and conflicting navigation patterns.

The analysis of ship casualties in Mokpo water indicated that most of the accidents were occurred along the main route of traffic, thus some kind of traffic management measure should be implemented in this water. The causal analysis revealed that many casualties by the human error which could be eliminated by the assistance of VTS.

The conclusions include 1) six proposed sites of Radar to cover the whole area, and 2) a proposed VTS center to manage the traffic considering the feasibility, availability and etc. It is surely expected that the proposed coastal VTS should improve the safety & efficiency of traffic and protection of marine environment in the water.