River Information Services in Inland Navigation

andCOMPRIS

Cas WillemsAVV Transport Research Centre

The Netherlands

Content

• River Information Services • RIS in Europe - status 2005• COMPRIS• IRIS

River Information Services

An European concept for harmonised information services to support traffic-management and transport-management in inland navigation, including the interfaces to other transport modes

Rivier Information Services

Voyage planning Lock and bridgemanagement

Supervisory and enforcementtasks

Statistics

Harbour andTerminal management

Traffic management (Traffic monitoring, Vessel Traffic Services and Navigation)

Calamity abatementTransportmanagement

River Information

Services

RIS standards

• Inland ECDIS

• Notices to skippers

• Electronic reporting

• Identification and tracking

Inland ECDIS navigation mode

• Inland ECDIS safety

related information

• On board or shore based

radar

• DGPS position

• AIS - ID

Inland ECDIS information mode

Fairway information on:

• Infrastructure

• Terminals, locks, bridges

• Waterlevels, tide, profiles

• Voyage planning

• Notice to skippers

Notices to skippers

• Dynamic information on the status of the fairways

• Standardisation:

– Language independent standard vocabulary

– Imbedded in Inland ECDIS S57 standard

Electronic Reporting

• Standardisation Group: ERI (Electronic Reporting International)

• Based on EDIFACT Protect messages • Use of standard reference data tables

• Standardised electronic reports to and from Waterway Authorities on:– Voyage– Vessel– Cargo– Crew

Automatic Identification and Tracking & Tracing

• Standardisation group on Tracking and Tracing– Automatic identification for traffic management and

monitoring

– Tracking and Tracing for transport management/logistic purposes

• Two concepts– Inland AIS based on maritime AIS standard with slightly

modified messages

– AI-IP identification based on information exchange via internet basically for strategic transport management/logistics

Pan-European Conference of

Transport Ministerson

inland waterway transport An unrestricted inland shipping route from the North Sea

to the Black Sea.

Rotterdam, September 2001

• “Invites governments concerned to establish a Pan-European River Information Service (RIS) by the year 2005, based on standards to be drawn up in the framework of the European Union, UN/ECE and the two River Commissions, since river information services contribute to safer and more efficient inland waterway transport”.

Rotterdam Declaration

RIS in Europe status 2005

• RIS is accepted in Europe • RIS imbedded in international and national policy

plans• VTMIS and RIS linked (Thematic network

WATERMAN)• Electronic Chart suppliers adopted the standards• Standards are formalised (CCNR and UN ECE)

– Inland ECDIS– Notices to Skippers– Electronic Reporting– RIS guidelines including RIS architecture

RIS in Europe status 2005• International Navigation Association PIANC:

– Guidelines and recommendations on implementation of River Information Services (including RIS architecture)

• Rhine Commission:– “RIS Arbeitsgruppe”; implementation of RIS guidelines and

standards in the Rhine area• European RIS Platform – Organisation of European policy

makers in Inland Waterborne Transport– Guidance and co-ordination for implementation and

standardisation of RIS in Europe– Umbrella for standardisation groups– Drafting the RIS directive

EC - RIS Directive

Accepted by the European Parliament in February 2005

Purpose of the directive

– Establish a framework for the deployment of harmonised River Information Services in the European Community

– Set out the standards, technical requirements and conditions to ensure a harmonised, interoperable RIS for Inland Waterborne Transport

Member States have to take measures to:

– Implement and operate RIS on all European Inland Waterways of class IV and higher

– Ensure that the transport sector can meet with the requirements under this Directive

Minimum requirements

• Member states are responsible for:– Supply of a minimum dataset on the European Waterway

infrastructure to facilitate voyage planning

– Electronic Nautical Charts (ENC’s) for fairway class Va and higher

– Facilities for electronic reporting

– Electronic publication of “Notices to skippers”

– Establish and operate RIS Centres - if the traffic situation requires

COMPRIS

Consortium Operational Management Platform for River Information Services

The last step towards the pan-European implementation of RIS

Project characteristics

• EC project 2002 - 2005

• Project budget: 10 M Euro

• 44 partners:– Ministries of transport

– Transport industry

– Research

– ICT companies

Project in the centre of RIS developments in Europe

Reference Model for ‘enhanced inland navigation’

Functional Architecture

Information Architecture

Physical Architecture

Communication Architecture

Data Architecture

Roadtransport

InlandNavigation

Railtransport Deep SeaShort Sea

‘Organisational A

rchitecture

Objectives of COMPRIS (1)

• Define the RIS architecture on different levels:

Topics architectuur

• Pan-European RIS Architecture– Reference architecture

– Functional architecture

– Information and data architecture

– Organisational architecture

• Linked to the Karen ITS architecture for roads

• Practical assessment in COMPRIS system development and test phase

Objectives of COMPRIS (2)

• Develop RIS elements with focus on implementation– VTM and tracking & tracing

Objectives of COMPRIS (3)

• Develop RIS elements with focus on implementation– VTM and tracking & tracing

– Inland ECDIS

Topics inland ECDIS

• Standaardisation issues – Notices to skippers

– “Legal ECDIS”,

– Hydro/meteo information

• Basis for full integration of applications as:– Voyage and route planner

– Navigation system - radar/inland ECDIS/AIS

– Electronic reporting

– Fuel optimiser

• North American/European co-operation on world wide standard– Recognition by IHO ECDIS Ed. 4 in sight

Objectives of COMPRIS (4)

• Develop RIS elements with focus on implementation– VTM and tracking & tracing

– Inland ECDIS

– Cross border information exchange

Austrian nationalcontrol centre

Slovak nationalcontrol centre

GreifensteinFreudenau EU

External EUborder

Bundesministeriumfür Finanzen

Gabcikovo lockPort of BratislavaPort of Vienna

Bundesministeriumfür Inneres

Cross border services

Principal services:

• Immigration Inspection

• Customs

• Dangerous Cargo Notification

• Voyage reporting

and

• Veterinary and Phytosanitary inspection

• Waste management

• Invoicing

Security as a hot topic

standardised messages for CB

Objectives of COMPRIS (5)

EU

Logistic Service Provider

ShipingLine

Agent

Forwarder

Logistic ChainM anagem ent

In land W aterwayTraffic M anagem ent

• Develop RIS elements with focus on implementation– VTM and tracking & tracing

– Inland ECDIS

– Cross border information exchange

– RIS interfaces for the exchange of transport information

• Implement RIS Operational Test Centres (OTP) for RIS conformity tests

• Demonstrate RIS on local, regional and pan-European level

Objectives of COMPRIS (6)

OTP concept

OTP- NIJMEGEN

OTP- OBERWESEL

OTP- DANUBE

PositionServer Voyage Pl.

Server

LDPServer

RIS/NTS/ENCServers

ERIServerAI-IP

Server

European Network Lock-planning

Terminal Operator

Logistic appl.

IVS90 (MIB?)

Others

GovernmentalShips

CommercialShips

GovernmentalShips

CommercialShips

European Network

IRIS

Implementation of River Information Services in Europe

TEN-T proposal under preparation

For more details

WWW.EURO-COMPRIS.ORG