Name
Abstract | ||
|---|---|---|
The US Coast Guard (USCG) is charged with maintaining an acceptable level of safety in US ports and waterways. Allocating resources to solve safety problems is difficult because multiple attributes of a port or waterway affect its safety and determine whether a particular safety measure will improve it. We based the ports and waterways safety assessment (PAWSA) model on multiattribute decision analysis techniques and local experts' and stakeholders' assessments of safety levels and the effects safety alternatives would have on these levels. The USCG used the PAWSA model to justify funding for four new vessel traffic service centers and to determine new technology requirements for all commercial vessels using US waters. The USCG has adopted it as a permanent part of its safety management tool kit. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2007 | 10.1287/inte.1060.0258 | Interfaces |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
safety level,effects safety alternative,pawsa model,safety problem,us port,waterways safety assessment,us coast guard,particular safety measure,us ports,safety management tool kit,us water,decision analysis,applications,transportation | Decision analysis,Port (computer networking),Management tool,Transport engineering,Guard (information security),Engineering,Occupational safety and health,Accident prevention,Vessel traffic service | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
37 | 3 | 0092-2102 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
2 | 0.41 | 5 |
Authors | ||
2 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jason R. W. Merrick | 1 | 135 | 16.29 |
| John R. Harrald | 2 | 111 | 11.22 |