A comprehensive statistical investigation framework for characteristics and causes analysis of ship accidents: a case study in the fluctuating backwater area of Three Gorges Reservoir region
Xue, J.; Papadimitriou, E.; Reniers, G.; Wu, C.; Jiang, D.; van Gelder, P.H.A.J.M. (2021). A comprehensive statistical investigation framework for characteristics and causes analysis of ship accidents: a case study in the fluctuating backwater area of Three Gorges Reservoir region. Ocean Eng. 229: 108981. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2021.108981 In: Ocean Engineering. Pergamon: Elmsford. ISSN 0029-8018; e-ISSN 1873-5258, more |  |
| Keyword | | | Author keywords | Ship accidents; Marine traffic safety; Three Gorges Reservoir; Fluctuating backwater area; Statistical and comparative analysis; Data visualization |
| Authors | | Top | - Xue, J.
- Papadimitriou, E.
- Reniers, G., more
| - Wu, C.
- Jiang, D.
- van Gelder, P.H.A.J.M., more
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| Abstract | Frequent water traffic accidents pose severe threats to human life and property safety, the water environment, and adverse effects on social stability. Understanding historical accidents is essential for accident prevention and risk mitigation. However, at present, research on the comprehensive statistical analysis of characteristics and causes of ship accidents that occurred in the inland water areas of the Yangtze River, especially in the fluctuating backwater area (FBA) of Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) region, is still scanty, even less a hierarchical and systematic analysis framework. Therefore, this paper proposes a comprehensive ship accident characteristics and causes analysis framework, and summarizes and visualizes the characteristics of ship accidents through the statistical and comparative analysis of historical data in terms of categories and severity of accidents, ship types involved in accidents, spatial and temporal distribution characteristics, ship accident losses, and root causes and lessons learned from the related accidents. In order to demonstrate the value of the proposed framework, based on the official sources, ten years of ship accident data from 2009 to 2018 in the FBA of TGR region are collected and analyzed in detail. On the basis of the results, this paper summarizes accident prevention and supervision guidelines to provide decision support for maritime safety. This research is of significance to the water traffic accident precaution and risk mitigation in this region and can be useful for other similar specific scenarios worldwide. |
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