Report on Specific Operational and Dimensional Design Characteristics of thePresent United States Passenger Vessel Fleet. Data Base and Report, February 1995

摘要

This report on specific dimensional design characteristics of the presentwaterborne passenger vessel fleet in the United States, reflects a sampling of existing vessels reported by the vessel operating community as well as the vessel design and construction industries. The report offers a review of statistics reported by the Urban Harbors Institute in an earlier report on the impact of ADA on the vessel industry, documentation on the data base itself, a comparison of the present rules, regulations and guidelines now in existence on ADA to highlight the treatment of the critical areas to date, a detailed review of the survey in report form of information provided by 57 companies on 108 vessels. A total of 67 reports, 34 from the operator responses and 33 from the design and build industry are presented and analyzed. Finally, UHI has included extracts of each of the company responses.