A concept paper of Dynamic & Proactive Route planning was completed in the end of November 2011 and is available on the project website.

Focus has now been transferred from development of concept design and system development to testing and validating of the concept. The first simulated transmission between ship and shore with route-updating procedure has been performed successfully in early January 2012. The first standard operational procedure plans have been prepared. The first tests of the concept on board the Swedish working vessel Fyrbyggaren will be carried out in the end of 2012. The first tests onboard commercial vessels are planned to start in Spring 2013.

A study is now carried out on how to integrate port information in the MONALISA concept. This has shown to be a critical issue.

Comprehensive studies on the regulatory framework, especially IMO regulations and UNCLOS, as well as a socio-economic analysis, are ongoing. The legal study will be presented in Q2 2013 and the socio-economic study in Q3 2013.

An ambitious dialogue is kept with different stakeholders. The Dynamic and Proactive Route planning concept has been presented in a large number of fora since the start of MONALISA. MONALISA was presented at the IMO NAV 58 meeting in July 2012 and at IALA VTS Symposium in Istanbul in September 2012. A second movie presenting the Dynamic and Proactive Route planning concept and the Verification System for Officers Certificates in more detail has been prepared and shown at different relevant conferences. The movie is also available on the website of the MONALISA project.

Close cooperation has been established with WWF (World Wildlife Foundation) that assist the project with maritime spatial planning information. An API (Application Programming Interface) connection has been established with the HELCOM server over biodiversity areas.

WWF has also commissioned a study on improvements of environmental effects with dynamic & proactive route planning.

As a result of the increased interest in the Dynamic & proactive route planning concept, discussions with different stakeholders have been initiated in order to extend the test bed of MONALISA to also cover the Mediterranean Sea. The extended tests will be included in the Motorways of the Sea project MONALISA 2.0, which is currently in the phase of preparation.