Passage Planning: An Objective Assessment of a Bridge Management Procedure Versus Integrated Electronic Aids

摘要

Recent implementation of bridge organization standards, procedures, and the onboard practice of passage planning, by several major merchant ship operators provided the impetus to initiate this program. The Bridge Team and Passage Planning Effectiveness Evaluation was performed onboard the real-time shiphandling simulator at the Computer Aided Operations Research Facility (CAORF), Kings Point, N.Y. The experiment, using actively sailing masters and teams of qualified ship's officers, was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of these concepts in improving the navigational safety of ships at sea. Specifically, the investigation studied the performance among four groups of bridge watches addressing trained versus untrained (in the concepts), three-man bridge team versus two-man complement, and the impact of an Automatic Radar Plotting Aid (ARPA), as an information source, and to reduce team workload, versus conventional labor.