Posted: February 21st, 2024
The Role of AI in Maritime Transport
## The Role of AI in Maritime Transport
1. **Digital Transformation**:
– Digitalization focuses on operations automation, business process automation, and information processing.
– E-navigation systems improve data organization and communication between ships and shore.
– Port Community Systems electronically integrate heterogeneous compositions within the port community.
– Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Analysis aids decision-making in maritime logistics, port safety, and security.
– The concept of the **Internet of Vessels (IoV)** proposes an innovative network of intelligent, interconnected vessels and shore facilities.
2. **Big Data and AI Applications**:
– Four main clusters of AI research in maritime include:
– **Digital transformation**: Automation, business process automation, and information processing.
– **Application of big data from Automatic Identification System (AIS)**: AIS data enhances navigation and energy efficiency.
– **Energy efficiency**: AI-driven solutions optimize fuel consumption and emissions.
– **Predictive analytics**: AI models predict maintenance needs and optimize operations.
– Autonomous ships, big data analysis, cybersecurity, IoT, and virtual reality are key areas of research.
3. **Challenges and Opportunities**:
– AI can improve safety and efficiency but faces challenges related to information uncertainty, complexity, and time demands.
– Tactical decisions in navigation require anticipating traffic patterns like a game of chess.
– Safe autonomous shipping systems must consider surrounding vessel goals.
– The current state of applied AI is “weak,” focusing on limited tasks rather than superhuman intelligence.
## Scholarly References (OSCOLA Format):
1. [IEEE Transportation Electrification Council](https://tec.ieee.org/newsletter/december-2021/artificial-intelligence-for-maritime-transport)
2. MacKinnon, S. N., Weber, R., Olindersson, F., & Lundh, M. (2020). *Artificial Intelligence in Maritime Navigation: A Human Factors Perspective*. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 1212.
3. [MDPI Special Issue: Application of Artificial Intelligence in Maritime Transportation](https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jmse/special_issues/H09F6V957P)
4. [ResearchGate: Use of Artificial Intelligence as a Problem Solution for Maritime Transport](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340020174_Use_of_Artificial_Intelligence_as_a_Problem_Solution_for_M