The aim is to develop a new type of ship routing solution taking into account weather conditions (weather routing) with improved assessment of ship performance and responses to sea conditions. Two decision support systems will be developed by the partners: An assistance tool for ship handling to ensure safe operation based on on-board motion measurements and a routing tool that combines ship motion and weather prediction data to propose optimum shipping routes. The accuracy of the weather data will be improved by online adjustments based on real measurements along the route. All the methods and algorithms will be implemented in commercial Electronic Nautical Chart environment and a full scale validation on an oceanographic vessel in Portugal will be conducted.
ROUTING is funded by the MarTERA partners Foundation for Science and Technology Portugal (FCT) and Polish National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR) and co-funded by the European Union.
Coordinator
Prof Carlos Guedes Soares, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Consortium
Instituto Superior Técnico, University, Portugal
Gdynia Maritime University, University, Poland
Gdansk University of Technology, University, Poland
NavSim Polska sp. z.o.o., SME, Poland