A novel risk assessment process: Application to an autonomous inland waterways ship

Effectively addressing safety, security and cyber-security challenges is quintessential for progressing the development of next generation maritime autonomous shipping. This study aims at developing a novel hybrid, semi-structured process hazardous scenarios identification ranking. method integrates operational functional hazard approaches, whilst considering cybersecurity hazards. applied to comprehensively assess safety an inland waterways ship preliminary design phase. The are identified ranked by number experts participating in series sessions. hazards risk estimated frequency severity indices, whereas their uncertainty employing standard deviations these two indices among ranking results. Epistemic also considered during Risk control measures proposed de-risk critical results reveal that most from perspectives pertain situation awareness, remote propulsion functions. Based on derived results, enhancements along with high-level testing investigated proposed.