This article focuses on the data collected from Automatic Identification System (AIS) to examine the risk of navigating in a populated vessel traffic in Malacca Strait. The Malacca Strait being the longest strait in the world is an important trading route link between the Indian Ocean to the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean. The increasing trades in East Asia has also increased the traffic in Malacca Strait that resulted in more vessel collisions. A research casualty data shown with the significant increase in maritime traffic had also increased the accidents occurred in 1975 to 1995. The overview of AIS is to receive data and examine the risk of navigation. AIS is function to obtain and monitor ships more than 300 gross tons internationally and 500 gross tons domestically. Using AIS data, an assessment was conducted at different time in specific areas of high traffic. The assessment was categorized with letter ‘A’ being no injuries and ‘E’ being the highest risk of death for several people for collisions cases, “Ship Head-on, Ship Overtaking, Ship Crossing”. These data greatly assist the ship operators to determine the probability of collisions and its consequences. These results are proven to be capable in ensuring the safety measures to improve the safety in Malacca Strait.
This article provides a knowledgeable information for our project to improve navigation of ships and reduce risk of collisions between vessels. From the aspect of safety, the data collected from AIS as shown in the article, will aid shipping industries and operators to mitigate the risk of collision. This would smoothed the maritime traffic and avoid any fatal accidents. As our project integrates both AIS and GPS, the article has provided useful information and statistics about the potential of AIS which connects to our research project.
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