A Study on Mariners' Standard Behavior for Collision Avoidance (1)

Abstract

Human factors have been considered the primary reason of marine accidents. Especially, the collision between vessels is mostlycaused by human behavior. However, there have not been many researches to clarify the reason of marine accidents caused by humanfactors quantitatively. In order to understand human factors and to enhance safe navigation systematically, using a full missionship-handling simulator, we’ve investigated the characteristics of avoiding behavior taken by mariners. Further in order to apply thecharacteristics more widely and effectively, it’s necessary to formulate the standard behavior for ship-handling in the condition of collisionavoidance. Is this study, therefore, we intended to propose the concept to model the mariner’s standard behavior on the handling ofcollision avoidance as the first step. As a result, we confirmed the contents of information processing in ship-handling that mariner’sgenerally taking to avoid collision.