Sea Traffic Management (STM) in the Vessel Traffic Service (VTS)
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Examensarbete på grundnivå
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2019
Författare
Flodin, Teodor
Johansson, Philip
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The digitalization in the shipping industry has during the last decade resulted in
different research projects aiming to make the shipping chain more effective and
efficient. International Maritime Organization (IMO) has developed a “Strategy
Implementation Plan” to help navigate the development in the right direction with
demands which the projects are trying to fulfil. One of the projects is Sea Traffic
Management (STM) which has developed tools to help assist with decision making
and a more efficient way of navigating and planning voyages. The tools are aimed
towards the mariners on board but also the operators ashore in the Vessel Traffic
Service (VTS).
The aim of this thesis is to get an understanding of what the Vessel Traffic Service
Operators (VTSO) think of the STM tools user interface/friendliness, their benefits,
and what potential problems they could produce. The results are supported by
answers from a questionnaire collected during full scale simulation testing of the
STM services. This helped to gain a brief understanding in their thought of the
STM tools and how user friendly the tools are. The results were strengthened by four
interviews of VTSOs who participated in the simulation runs and the questionnaire
to get a deeper understanding of the pros and cons on the STM tools. The result
indicated that the tools were over-all user friendly and was to a benefit for the
VTSOs with increased foresight and overview.
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VTS, VTSO, IMO, user friendliness, shipping, STM, Sea Traffic Management