Martha’s Vineyard residents got their first glimpse last week at the Steamship Authority’s new ferry reservation system that is expected to be rolled out next year.

Planned to replace the 1990s technology that currently handles the more than 500,000 cars and trucks that travel between Woods Hole and Martha’s Vineyard annually, the new reservation system will be cloud-based and designed to streamline terminal operations, ferry line officials said at an open house in Tisbury on Martha’s Vineyard Thursday.

Thomas Innis, a technology consultant for the Steamship Authority, said the Steamship will switch to a “one-system” model where all data is managed on a central platform. The website’s interface will change to have a “responsive design” that will adapt to different types of screens with t

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