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Silveira, P.A.M., Teixeira, A.P. and Guedes Soares, C. (2012), “Analysis of maritime traffic off the coast of Portugal”, Maritime Engineering and Technology, C. Guedes Soares, Y. Garbatov, S. Sutulo, T.A. Santos, (Eds.), Taylor and Francis Group, pp. 35-41
This paper aims at studying the maritime traffic off the coast of Portugal. This study is based on AIS (Automatic Identification Scheme) data, which is registered and maintained by the Portuguese coastal VTS control centre (CCTMC), referring to the time period between the 9th July and the 9th August 2008. The decoding of AIS messages is briefly described and computer programs are developed for the analysis and visualization of the AIS information available for the present study. From the analysis of the AIS information, the maritime traffic off the coast of Portugal is characterised and a statistical analysis of the ships in the Traffic Separation Schemes (TSS) is provided. An algorithm is developed to assess the risk profile and the relative importance of routes associated with ports.
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