International Maritime Organization(IMO) performs e-navigation to improve maritime safety and security and contribute to environmental protection. The e-navigation is an integrated safety management system that collects, integrates, exchanges, displays, and analyzes maritime information of sea and land, automatically recognizes dangerous situations, and remotely supports ship safety sailing. To prepare the integrated safety management system ‘e-navigation’, research is being conducted on the route exchange for sharing intended routes between ship and ship, and between ship and land. What route exchange means is to disseminate the intended route input in Electronic Chart Display and Information System(ECDIS) to nearby ships and land stations, share route information of other ships, and display the information on ECDIS screen.

According to the review of previous studies, they don’t have enough specific grounds for the effects of route exchange and the necessity of its introduction and focus on technical aspects like the implementation of route exchange.

Therefore, this study tried to quantitatively analyze the effects of route exchange on sailing safety with the use of ship handling simulation, integrate simulation performers’ subjective evaluations, and investigate the effects of route exchange.

The quantitative and qualitative evaluations of the effects of route exchange were analyzed. As a result, route exchange was found to support officers’ decision making so as to increase sailing safety, alleviate officers’ psychological burden, and be effective at accident prevention. Therefore, route exchange is expected to become a critical factor of the integrated safety management system that e-navigation pursues through route sharing between ship and ship and between ship and land, and to contribute to designing an optimal sea route and introducing unmanned ship.