A What-If Simulation to support Vessel Traffic Services in their decision making process

Abstract

For vessel traffic services (VTS) to play a more active role in coordinating maritime traffic in the future, they need the right tools to keep track of traffic evolutions. We therefore present a framework for what-if simulations that help VTS operators to estimate the consequences of their intended advice. Being able to simulate the future developments of a situational picture at hand with or without their suggested instructions to the individual vessels by a click of a button (what-if), the VTS operator gets an easily comprehensible overview of their directions' value.