The various phases and objectives of the project PROTIDE.
PROTIDE is developed in cooperation between DVS and Charta Software with the intention of implementing a state-of-the-art tidal window calculation route. The initial idea was to make a method based on the research of Ruud Bouw ('Admittance policy tidal bound ships'), which was a study to find a truly probabilistic methodology as an improvement on the currently used HARAP model. The objectives:
- Introduce a model that can be used real-time
- Use actual forecast data instead of schematizations for water levels, swell and current
- Use a continuous/actual data for the channel layout, channel depth reductions and ship dimensions
- Use state-of-the art ship motion analysis
- Analyse and use a safety criterion for each individual ship entrance