Maritime Transportation Safety and Risk Management

Dear Colleagues,

The maritime industry is a highly regulated sector and serves as a cornerstone of global trade and logistics. The safety of ocean-going vessels, whether to fish, carry passengers or cargo, is of paramount importance to both owners and state regulatory actors. However, with the increase in marine traffic flow and advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the field of maritime transportation safety and risk assessment is confronted with both significant opportunities and complex challenges.

The aim of this Special Issue, “Maritime Transportation Safety and Risk Management”, is to provide a common platform for academia and industry to engage in discussions by publishing high-quality original research papers, including, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Systematic, critical and bibliometric review in maritime safety and risk;
• Maritime transportation safety incidents, accidents, occurrences trends;
• Assessing the human error contribution to maritime occurrences using Bayesian networks;
• Risk-informed decision-making under uncertainty in the maritime domain;
• Advances in maritime and arctic safety and survival;
• Integration of AI-based decision support tools for maritime survival and emergency response;
• Artificial intelligence integration in maritime transportation safety;
• Maritime transportation accident learning systems: towards an AI-powered safety culture;

• Arctic maritime risk modelling under climate change scenarios;
• Cyber risk assessment framework for autonomous and digitized vessels;
• Quantifying organizational and cultural factors in maritime risk tolerance;
• Data-driven predictive models for maritime risk assessment.

Dr. Francis Obeng
Dr. Rob Brown
Guest Editors

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