TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Investigating the role of the human element in maritime accidents using semi-supervised hierarchical methods
JO  - Transportation research procedia
A1  - Paolo, Fadda
A1  - Gianfranco, Fancello
A1  - Luca, Frigau
A1  - Marco, Mandas
A1  - Andrea, Medda
A1  - Francesco, Mola
A1  - Vittorio, Pelligra
A1  - Mattia, Porta
A1  - Patrizia, Serra
SP  - 252
EP  - 259
VL  - 52
IS  - 
N2  - Navigation safety is a priority both at European and global level. Despite the important progress made over the years, sea accidents remain a major concern and much work is still needed to enhance maritime safety. Knowing the causes and precursors of past accidents is essential to identify the elements on which to intervene to improve safety and reduce the possibility of an accident to occur again. In this study, 1.079 sea accidents from the International Maritime Organization (IMO) database are analyzed using Semi-supervised Recursively Partitioned Mixture Models in an attempt to identify and categorize causal themes from accident data. Special attention is devoted to the human element, which is widely recognized as a primary or precursory cause in most accidents.     23rd EURO Working Group on Transportation Meeting, EWGT 2020, 16-18 September 2020, Paphos, Cyprus<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2352-1465
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2021.01.029
ID  - ref1
ER  -