Navigation Application
Thursday 11th November 2010, 1500hrs–1600hrs
Chaired by Charles Beers e-Navigation: A Systems Engineering Approach Dr M Fiorini, Selex Sistemi Integrati, Italy The International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted a “Strategy for the development and implementation of e-Navigation” (MSC85-report, Annexes 20 and 21). In particular, IMO adopted the following definition of e-Navigation: “the harmonised collection, integration, exchange, presentation and analysis of maritime information onboard and ashore by electronic means to enhance berth to berth navigation and related services, for safety and security at sea and protection of the marine environment”. IMO has stated the driving forces and the consequential goal for their e-Navigation concept as follows:
“There is a clear and compelling need to equip shipboard users and those ashore responsible for the safety of shipping with modern, proven tools that are optimized for good decision making in order to make maritime navigation and communications more reliable and user friendly. The overall goal is to improve safety of navigation and to reduce errors. However, if current technological advances continue without proper coordination there is a risk that the future development of marine navigation systems will be hampered through a lack of standardization on board and ashore, incompatibility between vessels and an increased and unnecessary level of complexity” (IMO MSC 85, Annex 20, §2.1). e-Navigation is therefore a vision for the integration of existing and new navigational tools, in a holistic and systematic manner that will enable the transmission, manipulation and display of navigational information in electronic format. This paper will describe the initial shore-based e-Navigation architecture and the state of art of the Universal Maritime Data Model (UMDM) and e-Navigation Stack under development by the International Association of marine aids to navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) from a systems engineering point of view trying to highlight motivation and rational behind some decision and its architectural implications. The authors are industrial members of the IALA and members of the architecture technical working group (WG5) e-Navigation committee. The Contribution of Air Navigation Service Safety Assessment Methodology to Vessel Traffic Servic Validation Dott. Francesca Matarese, SESM, Italy Dott. Daniela Dell'Amura, SESM, Italy Most risks arise from dealing with technology change. This is particularly true for safety-critical environments, where system upgrade can cause more problems than it solves.
VTS makes shipping safer but there is no doubt that the development of VTS and associated technologies has been delayed by a combination of many factors, such as the reluctance to adopt new technologies, which imply new costs and responsibilities. One of the principal reasons for introducing technology changes is to improve safety, so safety implications need to be carefully assessed.
In VTS systems, technology and legal changes are usually suffered as impositions, without the evidence of safety and cost benefit. IMO proposed FSA with the purpose of enhancing maritime safety by supporting decision makers to adopt technology changes to their system. FSA is highly technical and complex, but it offers a way forward and a means of escaping from the dilemma of the past, in which action was too often put off until something went wrong.
The aim of this paper is to define an innovative methodology that could become a future reference against which to establish a policy for managing new technology risk in maritime surveillance.
The main limitation to the adoption of FSA is the “a priori” assessment with no subsequent “a posteriori” validation. Thanks to our expertise in Air Navigation Service systems safety assessment, we propose a customisation of FSA, by introducing some concepts of EUROCONTROL SAM, so providing the means to verify and validate FSA results to enhance their credibility.
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