Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.7225/toms.v12.n01.003
The Improvement Model of Navigational Safety for Inland Waterway Transport
Huy-Tien Ha
; Small and Medium Enterprises Association, Vietnam
*
Lan Ngo
; Dong Nai Technology University, Post Graduate Department, Dong Nai, Vietnam
Van-Chung Pham
; University of Economics and Law, Faculty of Economic Mathematics, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Thanh-Liem Nguyen
; Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group - VNPT, Dong Nai, Vietnam
* Corresponding author.
Abstract
This paper aims at evaluating navigational safety for inland waterway transport (IWT). In doing so, the literature and operational features of IWT were initially reviewed to figure out risk elements (REs) influencing the navigational safety for IWT. After that, a fuzzy Analytic Hierarchical Process (AHP) approach was adopted to estimate the weight for the likelihood and consequence measures of REs. Then, continuous risk matrix (RM) was introduced to identify REs' risk level. Lastly, to test the proposed research model's applicability, IWT operators across Vietnam were empirically surveyed. The empirical findings could be useful for IWT operators in launching managerial policies to boost their navigational safety. Furthermore, the proposed risk evaluation framework may serve as a methodological reference in relevant literature.
Keywords
Improvement model; Navigational safety; Inland waterway transport; Risk elements
Hrčak ID:
309927
URI
Publication date:
20.4.2023.
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