Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
Journal of Marine Engineering & Technology
For a Special Issue on
Advances towards the Seamless Design, Approval and Operation of Green and Autonomous Vessel Concepts
Manuscript deadline
Special Issue Editor(s)
Prof.dr. Rudy R. Negenborn,
Delft University of Technology
[email protected]
Dr. Dimitrios Konovessis,
University of Strathclyde
Lars Andreas Lien Wennersberg,
SINTEF Ocean, Energy and Transport
Dr. Nikos Kougiatsos,
Delft University of Technology
Advances towards the Seamless Design, Approval and Operation of Green and Autonomous Vessel Concepts
The digitalisation and green transformation of the maritime industry is reshaping how vessels are designed and operated. While autonomous and sustainable vessel concepts promise improved efficiency and contributions to global sustainability goals, significant challenges remain in the adaptation of design processes, interconnections between design and operation, ensuring the safety and security of the onboard cyber-physical system solutions, and the approval of new vessel concept designs. This Special Issue focuses on engineering technologies and methodologies integrating system performance, safety, and reliability in green and automated marine systems. Contributions demonstrating real-world validation and innovative engineering solutions are particularly encouraged.
We welcome contributions spanning a broad range of topics, including:
- Autonomous vessel design, covering system architecture, redundancy, safety, resilience, and compliance with MASS regulatory requirements,
- Green vessel design, addressing energy-efficient operations, alternative fuels, emissions reduction, and decarbonisation technologies,
- Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC), including path planning, rule-compliant collision avoidance, fault-tolerant control, and cyber-secure operations
- Smart cargo handling and automated mooring systems
- AI-enabled design and operational tools, such as explainable AI, machine learning and semantic technologies supporting green and autonomous vessel development
- Testing, certification, and assurance, encompassing verification and validation, approval methodologies, assurance cases, standards, and real-world demonstrations
Together, these efforts will help define the future of autonomous and environmentally sustainable shipping.
Submission Instructions
- Submitted manuscripts must follow the Journal of Marine Engineering & Technology instructions for authors, found on the journal’s homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tmar20
- Authors preparing manuscripts in LaTeX should use the current Taylor & Francis online LaTeX guidance/template, preferably through the official online/Overleaf route linked from Taylor & Francis Author Services or the journal instructions.
- Authors using Word should use the current journal/Taylor & Francis author template where provided by the instructions for authors.
- Authors must include the required declarations, including funding, competing interests, data availability where applicable, ethical approval where applicable, author contributions if required, and permissions for third-party material.
- The Special Issue title should be clearly indicated during online submission and in the cover letter if the system does not provide a dedicated Special Issue selection field.
- All submissions will undergo the journal’s normal peer-review process, meaning that acceptance is not guaranteed.
- Submitted manuscripts raising conflict of interest issues will be managed by assigning conflicted manuscripts to an independent editor.