Abstract
This paper presents results of recently carried out studies toward an environment-friendly, safe and intelligent marine transportation system. Firstly, a broad view of current status of Marine Transportation Systems and contents of Virtual Vessel Traffic service (V-VTS), Intelligent Marine Traffic Systems and Marine Intelligent Transport Systems (Marine ITS) is given. Then, a concept of fully automated and intelligent ships is presented in order to realize the environment-friendly, safe and intelligent marine transportation system. Finally, main conclusions from this study are drawn and further study directions are pointed out.
