
PIER RL Cuts Shipping Fuel Waste 9-Fold
PIER is a physics-informed offline RL framework that learns fuel-efficient, safety-aware maritime routing from historical AIS data and ocean reanalysis, without needing online simulators or forecasts. It reduces mean CO2 emissions by 10% versus great-circle routing and slashes catastrophic fuel waste from 4.8% to 0.5% of voyages on 2023 Gulf of Mexico routes. The method shows 3.5x lower fuel variance and transfers to other domains like wildfire evacuation.



