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INDRIS

Inland Navigation Demonstrator for

River Information Services

Cas Willems

Transport Research Centre

Ministry of Transport

The Netherlands

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presentation content

Introduction RIS concept Standards and demonstrators Intermediate results Conclusions

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Project characteristics

Participants from Germany, Austria, France, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands Ministries of transport Research institutes IT- companies and Industrial partners

Steering committee: representatives of transport organisations and Ministries of transport

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Objectives INDRIS

Harmonisation of (data)communication and data-exchange on European inland waterways

Prove the use and benefits of open standards in European-wide demonstrators

Prove the benefits of River Information Services for safety of inland navigation and efficiency of inland waterborne transport

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INDRIS Phases

Functional Definition of RIS and

Standardisation process (January 1998 - February 1999)

Demonstrators

(November 1999 - May 2000) Rhine/Scheldt demonstrator Danube demonstrator Seine demonstrator Flemish demonstrator

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River Information Services

European concept for Traffic- and Transport management on inland waterways

Improve the position of inland waterborne transport

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RIS concept

TTI - Tactical Traffic Image STI - Strategical Traffic and Transport

Information

FIS - Fairway Information System

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Fairway Information System

General (nautical) information on the state and

use of the fairways, ports etc electronisc chart with fairway characteristics fairway depthcontours and waterlevels

opening times of locks and bridges

information on obstructions and incidents

etc etc

FIS

Electronic Chart ECDIS

Waterlevels Infrastructure Info Weather Info

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TTI - Tactical Traffic Image

Information that affects the user’s immediate decision in a restricted navigation area safe and smooth navigation traffic management/monitoring calamity abatement

Supported by fairway information (FIS)

TTI

Ship or Shore based Radar

transponderID

DGPS position

in ECDIS

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STI - Strategic information

Traffic and transport information that affects user’s medium and long term decisions voyage planning and voyage execution bridge and lock operations terminal and port operations

Supported by fairway information (FIS)

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Communication standards

Traffic related communications Maritime standard for Automatic Identification

Systems (AIS) amended for inland navigation VHF data-communication

Transport related communication GSM and in future GPRS and UMTS TCP/IP

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Standards for data

Geographic related data (FIS) Maritime ECDIS -standards amended for

inland navigation - Inland ECDIS Transport related data

EDIfact standards amended for inland transport

Traffic related data AIS messages amended for inland navigation

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European Demonstrators

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Demonstrator applications

Shore based Traffic Image on Board of Vessels Traffic Image in VTS Regional Traffic Overviews Voyage Planning, Reporting and Monitoring Notice to skippers - on line Lock Planning Terminal Planning Incident Management Fairway information Electronic bourse

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Intermediate Results

Close co-operation between ministries of transport of Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands

Close co-operation with the transport sector Inland ECDIS on the agenda of Rhine

Commission and Danube Commission Implementation of RIS on the agenda of world

wide organisation dealing with inland waterways (PIANC)

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Intermediate results (2) AIS network in the Netherlands remains operational after

finalisation of INDRIS as a PPP Inland Electronic Nautical Charts available of (parts of) the Rhine

and Danube. International consensus on Inland ECDIS standard Electronic Chart suppliers willing to adopt the inland ECDIS

standard Implementation project on transport reporting database starts in 1-

1-2000

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RIS towards implementation

Standardised functional and technical RIS-architecture

International maintenance of standards From local VTS’s to regional RIS-centres RIS linked to other transport modes

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Conclusions

RIS accepted as traffic- and transport-management concept for the inland waterways

Reporting with EDI is already a success Safety can be enhanced with ECDIS and

transponder technology European standards for data and communication

have been designed Logistics of Inland navigation can be improved

with the concept of River Information Services

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Thank you for your attention

C.P.M.Willems@avv.rws.minvenw.nl

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