A selexSI solution to enable distributed decision making in Vessels Traffic Management

The surveillance and control of maritime traffic, along with the management of wide area, such as ports and costs, need of the cooperation and coordination of manifold actors. The capacity of efficiently putting in place proper activities allows improving the safety and security of maritime transport forecasting promptly dangerous situations, collisions and threats, such as crossing of the boats close to the coasts or bridges and carrying dangerous goods in protect areas; enhancing maritime traffic for increasing capacity of the harbours, the navigation efficiency, and routes utilization; and supporting the actors during the Search and Rescue phases. The proposed Vessel Traffic Management System attempts to reach the above aims enabling the cooperation decision making among all the actors involved in each activity. In particular, the solution lets on the one hand of sharing information among all actors, improving their situation awareness during all the operative phases, and on the other hand of making decision aids to the operators in both the planning of the mission and in tactical activities. The modularity and scalability gained from the solution architecture allow utilizing the VTMS solution in different and heterogeneous environments, such as national maritime territory, rivers, waterways, etc.