NTL Record

Title	Saint Lawrence Seaway Navigation-Aid System Study : Volume I - Text and Appendixes A and D
Record ID	49060
Personal Name Creator	Weiss, Jack W.; Nelka, John J.
Source	116p. in various pagings
Corporate Contributor	John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
Publisher	Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
Publication Date	19780901
Language	English
Abstract	The requirements for a navigation guidance system which will effect an increase in the ship processing capacity of the Saint Lawrence Seaway (Lake Ontario to Montreal, Quebec) are developed. The requirements include a specification of system positioning accuracy and the type and frequency of information which must be displayed to the master of each ship in the Seaway. A detailed development of the logic used to compute Seaway capacity as a function of the guidance system positioning accuracy is presented. A computer program is given which follows this logic and is used to compute Seaway capacity as a function of positioning accuracy for two classes of ships. Various sensitivity analyses are presented. It is shown that the capacity of the Seaway could be increased by up to 30 percent through the use of a navigation guidance system.
Rosap ID	dot:10540
Rosap URL	https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/10540
TRT Terms	Navigational aids; Position fixing; Navigation charts; Radio navigation; Inland waterways; Waterways; Ship pilotage; Cold weather
General Subjects	Aids to navigation
Classification	NTL - MARINE/WATERWAYS TRANSPORTATION - MARINE/WATERWAYS TRANSPORTATION; NTL - MARINE/WATERWAYS TRANSPORTATION - Marine Safety; NTL - OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLS - OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLS
Geographical Coverage	Montreal (Canada); New York
Report Number	DOT-TSC-SLSDC-78-1, I; DOT-SLS-63-78-1, I
Resource type	Tech Report
URL	https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/49000/49000/49060/SLS-63-78-1.1.pdf
Format	PDF
Database	NTL Digital Repository