Safety on navigation in the straits of Malacca using Automatic Identification System (AIS) data

Abstract

Safety on navigation has become one of the important issues to the entire world shipping community. The result from the ship collisions has been contributing to the issues of security, the loss of lives and property also the environmental may occur. This study focuses on the Strait of Malacca area because it is one of the world’s most congested straits used for international shipping which is located on the border among the three countries of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. The study is to extract and record the data of ships which is passing through The Strait of Malacca using Automatic Identification System (AIS) in Marine Technology Center, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor. The main scope is to develop the program that can reduce the numbers of collision between the vessels during the navigation in the Straits of Malacca. The data from Automatic Identification System (AIS) will be analyzed using the program that will be developed. The effectiveness of the developing program will be determined by using the data analyses and determination of the particular vessel which is in danger condition which is using safety distance calculation.