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
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FIS
Electronic Chart
ECDIS
Waterlevels
Infrastructure Info
Weather Info
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)
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TTI
Ship or Shore
based Radar
transponder
ID
DGPS position
in ECDIS
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
for additional information
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