Improving safety of towage special transportation
Office system
The office system is a suite of computer programs under
a graphical user interface, which computes the design
values for a transport and evaluates the risks. The
transport will be modelled using a Monte Carlo type
simulation process, which will also allow the system to
be used for training purposes. In addition, it will also
calculate the full motion climate for the long-term statistics
and related probability of failure of e.g. sea fastenings.
The main components of the office system are:
• FDB (Forecast DataBase)
• RP&D (Route Planning and Display)
• VMC ( Voyage Motion Climate)
• CDM (Captain’s Decision Mimic)
• MCS (Monte Carlo Simulator)
On-board system
The on-board system is a decision support and monitoring
package designed to support the crew by providing
information for operational and routing decisions.
The main components of the on-board system are:
• STMU (Short-term Meteo Update)
• RP&D (Route Planning and Display)
• M&L (Monitoring and Logging)
• DRS (Decision and Routing Support)