Arctic Route Planning and Navigation Strategy: The Perspective of Ship Fuel Costs and Carbon Emissions

• Published in: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
• Main Authors: Aowen Chen, Weiqi Chen, Jian Zheng
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: arctic route planning; multi-objective optimization; field theory; fuel cost; carbon emission; Arctic; Departure Point
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11071308

Arctic navigation research will be more urgent as it is predicted that 4.7% of the shipping trade will be deployed in the Arctic region by 2030. This paper presents a multi-objective path optimization algorithm based on the field theory to investigate Arctic shipping route design and navigation stra...