Global linked simulations - a key to the evaluation of future transport concepts and navigation

Abstract

This paper is intended to reflect the achievements of the Asian Pacific Maritime Simulation Network (APMSN), which was established in 2019, and the achievements of this project to create a global digital testbed for the entire shipping industry. The future design of this digital testbed structure can be used for testing further supporting software and hardware, for evaluating new navigation systems and for large-scale scenarios between (partly autonomous ships, remotely controlled ships and manned ships, but also for completely different parts of the maritime transport chain. The digitization of transport technologies is developing rapidly. While the focus has so far been primarily on digitized road, railorin some cases air transport systems, the maritime industry has recently been moving more into focus. The European Maritime Simulator Network (EMSN) has set itself the task of increasingly highlighting and exploiting the advantages of collaborative simulation in a digitized world in order to validate exemplary developments of route exchange formats or other services. In addition to testing technological developments, there is a great deal of interest in the ever-growing field of networked simulations in the education and training of seafarers. Since this network is still relatively young and the possibilities have not yet been extensively researched, some of the currently possible, but also future domains