impact and improvements
The characterisation of the maritime traffic patterns will allow the definition of specific safe routes and operational profiles for the maritime traffic off the continental coast of Portugal that will reduce the uncertainty of each operation, thus increasing the overall safety level and the efficiency of the future maritime operations. This can benefit many maritime stakeholders for optimising their operations such as port operators, pilotage services, ship owners and ship operators. These safe routes have the potential to become one of the key enablers for future autonomous vessels traffic operations.
Impact
improvements
The real-time anomaly detection is an important feature for developing alerts to support traffic monitoring, supervision and control. Moreover, the statistical characterisation of the maritime traffic patterns and historical information on the abnormal traffic behaviour facilitate decision making by the Maritime Administrations or flag state administrations on:
- improving and defining new traffic separation schemes or restrictions to navigation in severe weather conditions
- improving training and qualification of ships' crew, navigational services and aids, among others
- resource availability and planning for maritime surveillance, search and rescue and of oil-combating operations