Towards safer navigation
Navigation has over time changed as a result of people's demands for increased speed, larger ships, increased efficiency and reduced environmental impact. We have access to high speed and high engine power, sometimes even without prerequisites when it comes to leisure craft. Shipping and navigating the ship is largely based on good seamanship, good sense and experience – how do we define that?
Fredrik Forsman is a Phd student in Human Factors at the Department of Shipping and Marine Technology and Lighthouse. He also works at the Swedish Sea Rescue Society as Head of Training and has many years of experience from training crews for The Amphibious Corpse.
His research is focused on safe navigation and is expected to result in a description of the state of the research in this field as well as an empirical foundation on training and methodology required to navigate fast ships. Long term work will be expected to contribute to improving safety and knowledge about the performance of ships of any size.
Fredrik Forsman’s research project intends to study the method and conditions for implementing the navigation in high speeds rather than technology and systems support. The project, which is expected to lead to a licentiate thesis, aims primarily to describe the state of the art and best practice in the field and to formulate questions that can form the basis of experiments in a simulated or real environment..