Advanced TMS - Baltic Sea

The aim of this project is to develop a partnership with suitable stakeholders and compose a project proposal for a more substantial project with the aim of describing a concrete solution for a Baltic wide harmonized and coordinated Traffic Management Service (TMS). The project will use the knowledge of the successful transboundary GOFREP and SOUNDREP initiatives as a starting point, to design a project with the aim to develop and propose a concept for a Baltic Sea Traffic Management Service (TMS). The TMS would cover the entire Baltic Sea as its operating area, being able to aid and supervise all AIS equipped ships with the goal, to decrease accidents with about 70% as already achieved in the GOFREP area of Gulf of Finland.

As a pan-Baltic TMS will have challenges far more advanced than the present Reporting Systems (GOFREP, SOUNDREP, GDANREP) there are a number of fields which needs to be examined thoroughly to ensure an optimal design. Present reporting system relies on people monitoring their area of responsibility. In a Baltic Sea TMS this strategy would be unrealistic due to the huge area and the amount of vessels at any given moment. Instead, intelligent software would support the routine supervision, only reporting anomalies (like route deviations, congestions, unusual or untypical behavior etc.) to the TMS-operators, who would examine the situation and deal with it accordingly. An important part of the main project will be to identify the parameters and design the software. Some software of this kind is already designed or under research, partly part of e-Navigation concepts, but they need to be made to suit the needs and premises of the Baltic Sea.