Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-7cvxr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-23T08:15:44.041Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Development of Routing in Coastal Waters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1985

A. N. Cockcroft
Affiliation:
(City of London Polytechnic)

Extract

Traffic separation schemes and other routing measures have now been established in the coastal waters of many countries and new schemes are being introduced each year. Traffic separation was originally intended to reduce the risk of collision between ships proceeding in opposite directions but this paper explains how routing measures are now being used mainly for coastal protection. Improvements in navigational aids may lead to more extensive routing schemes in the future with increasing restriction on the movement of shipping.

The first traffic separation schemes adopted by IMCO (now IMO) in 1965 and 1968 were based on proposals made by the Institutes of Navigation of France, the Federal German Republic and the United Kingdom. In the report submitted to the Organisation by the Institutes in 1964 it was stated that ‘the object of any form of routing is to ease the congestion and lessen the likelihood of end-on encounters by separating opposing streams of traffic …’.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1985

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

1Traffic Regulation in the Dover Strait. Report of a Working Group (1963). This Journal, 16, 15.Google Scholar
2Cockcroft, A. N. (1983). The effectiveness of ship routing off North West Europe. This Journal, 36, 462.Google Scholar
3Cockcroft, A. N. (1981). Routing in the English Channel. This Journal, 34, 392.Google Scholar