Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships from a risk governance perspective: Interpretation and implications

Goerlandt, Floris

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2020.104758

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“…With only few prototypes in operation, autonomous merchant vessels are characterized by the lack of quantitative data regarding their operational performance and features. Therefore, experts remain one of the most reliable sources of information [40], in the presence of other sources.…”

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“…The overall median of the experts' responses was also the greatest for this stage (ME = 40.0), which suggests that the experts recognize that a widely-understood organizational environment is important for ensuring safe operations of autonomous vessels, including the human factors present therein. While this issue has been recognized as important by various scholars [8,28,40], it has also been studied to the least extent [41] to date.…”

Section: Results and Their Significancementioning

confidence: 99%

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On the Influence of Human Factors on Safety of Remotely-Controlled Merchant Vessels

2021

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With numerous efforts undertaken by both industry and academia to develop and implement autonomous merchant vessels, their safety remains an utmost priority. One of the modes of their operation which is expected to be used is a remote control. Therein, some, if not all, decisions will be made remotely by human operators and executed locally by a vessel control system. This arrangement incorporates a possibility of a human factor occurrence. To this end, a variety of factors are known in the literature along with a complex network of mutual relationships between them. In order to study their potential influence on the safety of remotely-controlled merchant vessels, an expert study has been conducted using the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System-Maritime Accidents (HFACS–MA) framework. The results indicate that the most relevant for the safety of this prospective system is to ensure that known problems are properly and timely rectified and that remote operators maintain their psycho- and physiological conditions. The experts elicited have also assigned higher significance to the causal factors of active failures than latent failures, thus indicating a general belief that operators’ actions represent the final and the most important barrier against accident occurrence.

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Section: Results and Their Significancementioning

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On the Influence of Human Factors on Safety of Remotely-Controlled Merchant Vessels

2021

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“…Despite the growing public and research interest in autonomous ships, it appears that relatively little scientific effort has been devoted to the issue of evaluating economic benefits stemming from implementing these solutions, compared to other aspects, for example safety [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]. The descriptions of economic attractiveness of the projects described earlier in this section do not contain the detailed information about components affecting the economic viability of the anticipated developments.…”

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Costs and Benefits of Autonomous Shipping—A Literature Review

Ziajka-Poznańska

Montewka²

2021

Applied Sciences

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The development of autonomous ship technology is currently in focus worldwide and the literature on this topic is growing. However, an in-depth cost and benefit estimation of such endeavours is in its infancy. With this systematic literature review, we present the state-of-the-art system regarding costs and benefits of the operation of prospective autonomous merchant ships with an objective for identifying contemporary research activities concerning an estimation of operating, voyage, and capital costs in prospective, autonomous shipping and vessel platooning. Additionally, the paper outlines research gaps and the need for more detailed business models for operating autonomous ships. Results reveal that valid financial models of autonomous shipping are lacking and there is significant uncertainty affecting the cost estimates, rendering only a reliable evaluation of specific case studies. The findings of this paper may be found relevant not only by academia, but also organisations considering to undertake a challenge of implementing Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships in their operations.

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“…Another example may be the industrial developments towards autonomous cars and maritime autonomous surface ships. Risk perceptions may be important factors in certain consumer or societal stakeholder groups to oppose the adoption of such new technologies [15,109]. Risk communication research can help to inform and interact with the public for such new developments.…”

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The Landscape of Risk Communication Research: A Scientometric Analysis

Goerlandt

Reniers

2020

IJERPH

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Risk communication is a significant research domain with practical importance in supporting societal risk governance and informed private decision making. In this article, a high-level analysis of the risk communication research domain is performed using scientometrics methods and visualization tools. Output trends and geographical patterns are identified, and patterns in scientific categories determined. A journal distribution analysis provides insights into dominant journals and the domain’s intellectual base. Thematic clusters and temporal evolution of focus topics are obtained using a terms analysis, and a co-citation analysis provides insights into the evolution of research fronts and key documents. The results indicate that the research volume grows exponentially, with by far most contributions originating from Western countries. The domain is highly interdisciplinary, rooted in psychology and social sciences, and branching mainly into medicine and environmental sciences. Narrative themes focus on risk communication in medical and societal risk governance contexts. The domain originated from public health and environmental concerns, with subsequent research fronts addressing risk communication concepts and models. Applied research fronts are associated with environmental hazards, public health, medical risks, nuclear power, and emergency response to various natural hazards. Based on the results, various avenues for future research are described.

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Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships from a risk governance perspective: Interpretation and implications

Cited by 65 publications

References 53 publications

On the Influence of Human Factors on Safety of Remotely-Controlled Merchant Vessels

On the Influence of Human Factors on Safety of Remotely-Controlled Merchant Vessels

Costs and Benefits of Autonomous Shipping—A Literature Review

The Landscape of Risk Communication Research: A Scientometric Analysis

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