Resumen de MONALISA 2.0 and the sea traffic management: A concept creating the need for new maritime information standards and software solutions
S. Velásquez Correa, Francisco Javier Martínez de Osés, Marcella Castells Sanabra, U. Svedberg
This paper describes an innovative approach to integrate existing technology tools and instruments to implement a Sea Traffic Management system in Europe taking, as starting point, the successful TEN-T (Trans European Transport Network) co-funded project developed in the Baltic Sea and leaded by the Swedish Maritime Administration. The scope of MONALISA 2.0 project covers 10 EU countries and it is implemented by 39 entities representing public, private and academic sectors. Maritime Spatial Planning, Dynamic Route Planning, Route optimization, exchanging Information about Routes between ships and ships to shore, the possibility to have available a real time service for monitoring and coordinate sea traffic, are now a reality under the deployment of the different technologies applied. The improvement on ships performance and the response in case of accidents are other key elements introduced in MONALISA 2.0. This project will delivers new standards and protocols that will enable communicative machines in several levels, ship to ship, ship to shore and VTS to VTS, creating a comprehensive and interoperable network for a European Sea Traffic Management (STM) Service. STM is information sharing in the whole maritime transport chain. The industry of navigational system and aids, have agreed to support a new common standard making it possible to share route information between ships and from ship to shore. This is the first brick in building the holistic standard for the whole maritime transport chain. A new key contributor introduced is the unique identifier voyage number. Inspiration comes from the air industry (the SESAR project –but he flight numbers of today are NOT what we are going to implement!), where flight numbers + date make up a unique identifier that can be used for short and long term planning as well as for operational purposes. The partnership expects the transfer of STM information to happen in a System Wide Information Environment (SWIM). Maritime colleagues call this SWIM 'the maritime cloud'. We foresee modifications to all software involved in the transport chain, when new information streams will affect planning at all levels. This paper presents the first steps done to deploy the MONALISA concept and a new way for a safer, environmental and more effective maritime transport industry, and sending a clear message for any wrong understanding considering that MONALISA concept and STM will be the a new generation of tools where we will drive the ships from land: STM is not going to be a new ATM (Air Traffic Management) but at sea. The captain will always be in charge of both, the voyage plans decision and decisions in how to avoid collisions in dense traffic areas.
