Vela Tide turns live ship movements and port-call schedules into a shared operating picture for cruise destinations. Live vessel tracking, arrival deviation, time-phased visitors-ashore forecasting, daily-cap and congestion monitoring, berth-conflict warning, count reconciliation, and a historical archive, all served as a managed service with a free public board, embeddable widgets, and a developer API on top.

Cruise ships are tracked via AIS, which every passenger vessel broadcasts by international mandate, so there is no onboard hardware and no cooperation needed from the line. The port-call schedule is the baseline: we compare the promise to the reality and compute how early or late each ship is, deriving a true arrival from position and speed rather than the crew-typed AIS field.

Built on the Vela Context Data Hub and the ETSI NGSI-LD open standard. Designed for port funds, port authorities, municipalities, control rooms, and the wider destination ecosystem that needs to see cruise arrivals coming and plan the town around them.

A free public board. A paid port layer. Every call, accounted for. 

  From AIS to a live public board in under two weeks. The port operations layer on top.

PRICING

Volume discount on standard routes: €15/route for 150–500 routes. €10/route for 500+.

Volume discount on maritime routes: €40/route for 50–150 routes. €30/route for 150+.

Volume discount on airports: €100/airport for 10+.

"Active route" means a route with at least one vehicle or vessel appearing in the data stream on 5 or more days per month. "Active airport" means an airport with at least one scheduled flight per day. We count automatically - you don't report.

Don't have a standard feed? We can build a custom connector for proprietary APIs and non-standard data sources. One-time integration fee applies. Contact sales.

INTEGRATIONS

PUT LIVE TRANSPORT PERFORMANCE ON YOUR OWN PAGE 

Vela Pulse views are designed to embed — on a city portal, a hotel website, a newsroom article, or a lobby screen. One line of HTML, always up to date, no maintenance.

Route View

One route's punctuality at a glance - on-time rate, average delay, and a recent trend. The everyday embed for a municipality page or a news article.

Embeddable widgets are rolling out now. The examples above are previews built with sample data — fictional operators and routes, for illustration only. Tell us the country, route, or operator you'd like to show and we'll set you up as they go live.

Need a One-Operator Deployment First? 

If your operator doesn't have GTFS-RT yet - or if you want a fully consultative one-deployment project before subscribing to Pulse - start with the Mobility Starter Pack. We'll get your data publishing first, then transition you onto Pulse when you're ready. For ferry operators, we handle everything: AIS setup, schedule onboarding, port geofences. For airports, monitoring starts from day one - no setup on your side.​​

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS?

DO I HAVE TO PUBLISH MY GTFS-RT DATA PUBLICLY? 

No. We host private feeds with the same SLA as public ones. Your data stays yours.

WHAT IF MY GTFS-RT FEED IS MESSY OR PARTIAL?

Pulse runs feed validation continuously and reports issues. We can also help you clean and improve your feed as part of the onboarding.

CAN I EXPORT MY DATA?

Yes. CSV, JSON, NGSI-LD, and original GTFS-RT exports are all available. No lock-in.

DOES THIS REPLACE MY SCHEDULING OR DISPATCH SYSTEM?

No. Pulse is read-only and informational. We're not in the business of telling drivers or captains what to do.

WHAT ABOUT REGULATORY KPI REPORTING?

Pulse is informational by design. If you need formal regulatory submission, we can quote it as a separate scope. We don't bundle this into the standard product.

HOW DOES FERRY TRACKING WORK WITHOUT INSTALLING ANYTHING?

Every passenger vessel broadcasts AIS (Automatic Identification System) by international mandate. We receive this data from global AIS networks - no onboard hardware, no integration with the operator's systems. We identify your vessels automatically, build the schedule from public timetables, and start measuring delays.

HOW DOES AIRPORT MONITORING WORK WITHOUT AIRLINE COOPERATION?

Every commercial aircraft broadcasts ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast). We receive this data from open ADS-B networks, match flights to published schedules using callsigns, and compute delay automatically. No airline cooperation, no airport integration required. You get a complete punctuality picture from day one.

WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STANDARD ROUTES, MARITIME ROUTES, AND AIRPORTS?

Standard routes use automated GTFS-RT or SIRI feeds - plug and play. Maritime routes require AIS vessel tracking, manual schedule monitoring, and port geofence maintenance. Airports use ADS-B flight tracking with automatic schedule matching. Each rate reflects the data complexity and service level involved.

CAN I MONITOR BUSES, FERRIES, AND FLIGHTS IN ONE SUBSCRIPTION?

Yes. Pulse supports multi-modal monitoring. Add standard routes, maritime routes, and airports to the same subscription. You'll see everything in one dashboard.

DO YOU COVER MY COUNTRY'S FERRIES?

We currently track ferries in the Mediterranean (Greece, Croatia, Italy), Northern Europe (Netherlands, Norway, Nordics), and can expand to any maritime region within two weeks. Contact us for your specific area.

WHICH AIRPORTS CAN I MONITOR?

Any airport with scheduled commercial service in Europe - and most airports worldwide. ADS-B coverage is global. If a commercial flight lands there, we can track it.

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