Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) for Analysis of Ship Collision Using AIS Data

Currently, maritime safety is the best issue in the world. International Maritime Organization (IMO) have recommended formal safety assessment (FSA) methodology to enhance maritime safety. In this paper, the research was conducted in the Malacca Strait. Malacca Strait is an area that has a high risk for shipping navigation. Many accidents occur in the area are like collision, fire, grounding and so on. Therefore a study on improving safety in this area is very important. It is to produce an output that can be used to provide input to the master and multiple stakeholders to improve safety on board at the time of sailing. In this study, AIS is used as a data source. Sea condition data collected actual traffic through the Automatic Identification System (AIS) equipment installed at Kobe University, Japan, and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in Johor, Malaysia. The data is applied to define a method with the help of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).