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... Barriers to improvements in information systems include the division of responsibilities for waterways management among multiple agencies at all levels of government, a lack of coordination among the federal agencies responsible for waterways management, inadequate budgets for some critical maritime programs, the high costs of some specialized technologies, stakeholder opposition to user fees, limited access to certain key data, the incompatibility of many independently developed systems, and the absence of standards for some attractive technologies. In this report, the second phase of a three-year study by the Committee on Maritime Advanced Information Systems of the National Research Council, a strategy is presented for overcoming the major barriers and deficiencies and providing 1 a minimum level of maritime safety information nationwide.
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... In 1995, recognizing the need for better communications among agency programs responsible for waterways and their use, the key federal departments and agencies formed the Interagency Committee on Waterways Management. This committee offers a mechanism for coordinating federal funding priorities with regard to nautical charting; electronic charts and other systems for delivering data to users; PORTS and other systems for collecting and disseminating real-time data on weather, currents, and tides; conventional aids to navigation (e.g., buoys, lights, and markers)
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... Specifically, the U.S. Coast Guard should take the following steps while moving forward with the overall program: develop, standardize, and implement objective criteria for selecting ports to be served by federally funded vesset traffic services while upgrading existing systems and implementing new systems that are urgently needed develop training, certification, watchstanding, and operating standards for vessel traffic services applicable to all services regardless of whether or not they are federally operated as the competent authority, ensure that all shore-based vessel traffic management activities, regardless of who operates them, comply with established international standards · facilitate communication among ports regarding lessons learned about the implementation of these systems Recommendation 4.


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