A Study on the Sector Division for Effective Vessel Traffic Service

Yang, Hyoung-Seon

Journal of Navigation and Port Research 2010;34(4):265-270.
Published online June 20, 2010.

Focused on Daesan, Pyeongtaek and Inchon Harbour

A Study on the Sector Division for Effective Vessel Traffic Service

Abstract

The national VTS was launched in 1993, and has adopted a harbour-oriented control method which is unable to consider enough characteristics of its work. However, for the past 17 years, the characteristics has changed due to increased amount of vessels. Up to now the domestic Vessel Traffic Service has adopted harbour-oriented control method which is unable to consider enough characteristics of its work. However, developed countries have carried out waters-oriented control method, according to the using areas of ships, to be well considered the characteristics of control for increasing efficiency of it. Especially, VTS of Daesan, Pyeongtaek and Inchon harbour can have confusions of control because of overlapped service areas of it. Therefore, in this paper suggested a new Sector Division that the relevants waters is divided into 3 operational Regions and these are divided into nine sectors again, for the purpose of improving the efficiency and the concentration of VTS.

Key Words: Vessel Traffic Service;Vessel Traffic Control;Harbour-oriented Control;Efficiency of Control;Sector Division Control;Congestion Areas;Blind Areas of VTS