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Waterborne RESEARCH: INCARNATION Click here to browse the final summary report

Project Acronym: INCARNATION
Type of contract: Shared Cost
Project title: Efficient inland navigation information system
Main contractor: FACHHOCHSCHULE HAMBURG
Type organisation: Education
Country: DE
Start date & duration: 1996-01-01 - 24 months
Area: Waterborne
Relevant tasks: 6.2.2.15
Total cost in kECUs: 1222
Total EU contribution in kECUs: 700


Objectives of research

Main objectives:

WP 0: To describe the policy requirements on safety, capacity, protection of environment, calamity abatements and regarding inland waterways WP I: To develope relations between safety, capacity and environmental impacts as a function of an increased knowledge provided to user of the waterway WP II: To describe different management options. WP III: To derive the user requirements of users on board of ships and ashore. The latter with regard calamity abatement on the hand logistics on the other. WP IV: Determination of the functional specifications of the operational traffic image that is send to the ship based on the output from WPIII WP V: To determine the technical specifications of a full system of shore radar board equipment and a system based operational traffic image and output to other users. WP VI: To describe a full system of classical VTS centers. WP VII: To bring a shore based radar image to a PC on a vessel together with information of other vessels. WP VIII: To bring a shore based image based on GPS technology to a PC on a vessel together with information of other vessel. WP IX: To provide an assesment of the two operational traffic image systems against a classical VTS. WP X: Final report

Demo Sites:

Test site in the Netherlands WP VII and WP VIII

Links with other projects, tasks, areas, programmes, policy actions:
The results will help the EC to further enhance and exploit the MARIS initiative. Traffic management and reporting are contributing to SAFEMAR on part of MARIS and logistic information is related to the MARTRANS part of MARIS.


Participants

Organisation Type Country
FACHHOCHSCHULE HAMBURG Education     DE
MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT, PUBLIC WORKS AND WATER MANAGEMENT Research Organisation     NL
DAIMLER-BENZ AEROSPACE AG Industry     DE
HOLLAND INSTITUTE OF TRAFFIC TECHNOLOGY B.V. Industry     NL
MARITIME SIMULATION CENTRE THE NETHERLANDS Industry     NL
MARINE SAFETY INTERNATIONAL ROTTERDAM B.V. Industry     NL
UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE Education     BE
TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND Research Organisation     FI
GEMEENTELIJK HAVENBEDRIJF ROTTERDAM (ROTTERDAM PORT AUTHORITY) Other     NL
MARINE ANALYTICS B.V. Other     NL
OPEFORM Industry     FR

Coordinator's name: Prof. Jens FROESE
Address: FACHHOCHSCHULE HAMBURG
Rainvilleterrasse, 4
22765 Hamburg
DE
Tel: +49-40-38072991
Fax: +49-40-38073264/2688
E-mail: froese@issus.susan.fh-hamburg.de


European Commission Contact Point

Name: Ms. Astrid SCHLEWING
Tel: +32-2-2969866
Fax: +32 -2-2968350


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