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Innovation driven Collaborative European Inland Waterways Transport Network

Deliverables

Business model, open source license to IW-Net tools and commercialisation strategy

Map of innovations and project outputs with commercial interest. Business model to attract additional funding for specific IW-NET outputs. Patents filing. Open Source and IP protection activities report.

Innovation and data management Final

Final version of the DMP and Innovation management plan.

Open security preserving data and services connectivity components - federation of IWT systems

Report on the IWNET security federation layer including identity management and blockchain to implement the IWNET data governance and publishsubscribe events architecture and components and the integration of the IoT data flows layer

Roadmaps for major IWT modal shift and GHG reduction enablers

Roadmaps for infrastructures, vessels and digitalisation.

Pan-European IWT engagement Communication Plan and Activities Final

Communications plan report, dissemination and liaison with similar EU initiatives, final report.

Pan-European IWT engagement Communication Plan and Activities Initial

Communications plan report dissemination and liaison with similar EU initiatives first version including plan

Policy, standardization recommendations

Report on Policy harmonisation activities, final results.

IWT modelling and simulation capability and Revenue Management methods for optimisation

A report on work regarding developed simulation capabilities and a library of models and data sources to support the IWNET application scenarios and the related business cases including synchromodality network resources capacity network utilisation and reliability GHG emissions A revenue management method and tools for optimal planning will be developed and described

IW-NET shore power solution

Report on the IWNET shore power solution design as well as features implementation plan and architecture description

Verification of the Living Labs business case blueprints, with quantitative assessment of KPIs per use case and Reference IW-Net Solutions

Report on Living Lab business case blueprints, with quantitative assessment of KPIs, cost-benefit analysis, impact assessments, risks, societal, financial, and environmental aspects.

Autonomous navigation technology via enhanced Location Awareness AIS-GALILEO

Report on the following issues: Development of autonomous navigation platform extensions, and solution deployment. Architecture and components specification, connectivity IW-NET architecture IoT gateways, real time data and security system. Specifications, design and first prototype. Development of autonomous navigation platform extensions, and solution deployment. Final prototype with all tests performed.

New design options for barges with improved navigability

Report on the analysis of model scenarios of vessels of improved navigability in specific regional requirements Expansion scenario for improved navigability in specific regional requirements

Categorization of Innovative IWT green vessels and simulation-based impact assessment of key vessel innovations for specific corridors

Report consisting of an innovations review categorisation and analysis of inland waterway vessels A reference model for connected vessels and new operations modelsImpact assessment financial operational environmental

Techno-economic research into new autonomous barges linking mall river side ports and city ports and with sea container transport networks

Report on IWT Technologies for urban distribution, technoeconomic research for autonomous Barges, communication components development and connection with the IW-NET infrastructure. Description of specifications, design and first prototype.

Specification of Application Scenarios, deployment of Digital infrastructure and LL coordination

Living Lab application handbook which describes the living lab infrastructure setup living lab application scenarios best practices and proof of concepts

AS1, application and testing of advanced digitalization technologies

Deliverable includes: 1) Documentation of AS1 scenario setup, feature set and proof of concept description. 2) Demonstration of solutions in AS1.

AS2, application and testing of Intelligent IW Traffic Management

Deliverable includes: 1) Documentation of AS2 scenario setup, feature set and proof of concept description. 2) Demonstration of solutions in AS2.

AS3, introduction of innovative IW fleet, autonomous vessels for urban distribution

Deliverable includes: 1) Documentation of AS3 scenario setup, feature set and proof of concept description. 2) Demonstration of solutions in AS3.

Observatory of key IWT Networks enablers: TEN-T developments, port automation, energy and legal issues

Observatory setup and basic functions including TEN-T projects related to inland shipping, identifying opportunities for collaboration and the uptake of common actions. Observatory upgrade including (a) Trends in port automation affecting IWT, (b) Review of legal issues particularly for cross-border operation and support strategies and (c) Legislation and policy. A report will include observatory governance and structure, mission, and major sections description with all portal functionalities set. Observatory final version will have a report on updated content, and stakeholder’s assessment.

Training materials to support IWT stakeholders connect to and use IW-NET

Training content for IW-NET and summary activities description as well as report on training activities.

Publications

From RTK to PPP-RTK: towards real-time kinematic precise point positioning to support autonomous driving of inland waterway vessels

Author(s): An, Xiangdong; Ziebold, Ralf; Lass, Christoph
Published in: GPS Solutions, Issue Volume 27, Article No 86, 2023, ISSN 0967-0912
Publisher: Institute of Materials
DOI: 10.1007/s10291-023-01428-2

Precision-Aided Partial Ambiguity Resolution Scheme for Instantaneous RTK Positioning

Author(s): Closas, Juan Manuel Castro-Arvizu; Daniel Medina; Ralf Ziebold; Jordi Vilà-Valls; Eric Chaumette; Pau
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue Volume 13; Issue 15, 2021, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs13152904

Dynamic Semantic World Models and Increased Situational Awareness for Highly Automated Inland Waterway Transport

Author(s): Senne Van Baelen; Gerben Peeters; Herman Bruyninckx; Herman Bruyninckx; Herman Bruyninckx; Paolo Pilozzi; Peter Slaets
Published in: Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Issue Volume 8, Art. No. 739062, 2022, ISSN 2296-9144
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2021.739062

Tactical capacity planning in an integrated multi-stakeholder freight transportation system

Author(s): Gita Taherkhani; Ioana C. Bilegan; Teodor Gabriel Crainic; Michel Gendreau; Walter Rei
Published in: OMEGA, Issue Volume 110, July 2022, 2022, ISSN 0305-0483
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2022.102628

Digital Information Services Needed for a Sustainable Inland Waterway Transportation Business

Author(s): Specht, Patrick; Bamler, Jan-Niklas; Jović, Marija; Meyer-Larsen, Nils
Published in: Sustainability, Issue 14(11), 2022, ISSN 2071-1050
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/su14116392

Calculating Emissions Along Multimodal Transport Chains - Standards, Difficulties and Problems

Author(s): Hörandner, Laura/ Putz-Egger, Lisa-Maria / Beil, Denise
Published in: PIANC 2022: Proceedings of PIANC Smart Rivers 2022, Issue Part of the Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering book series (LNCE,volume 264), 2022, Page(s) pp 1338–1341
Publisher: PIANC 2022: Proceedings of PIANC Smart Rivers 2022

A Novel Visualisation Tool for Reliable Inland Navigation

Author(s): Matthias Prandtstetter, Peter Widhalm, Herfried Leitner, Immanuel Czege
Published in: Transportation Research Procedia, Lisbon, Portugal, Issue Volume 72, 2023, 2022, Page(s) Pages 3537-3544, ISSN 2352-1465
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.747

Situational awareness on inland waterways with multimodal, standalone sensor box: design and experiments

Author(s): Senne Van Baelen, Jiangtao Shuai, Peter Slaets
Published in: Conference OCEANS 2023 in Limerick, Ireland, Issue Conference is held yearly or twice a year, 2023, ISBN 979-8-3503-3226-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/oceanslimerick52467.2023.10244614

Revenue Management in Inland Waterway Transportation: a planning and execution framework

Author(s): Tayeb Oulad Kouider, Ioana Bilegan, Igor Crevits, David Duvivier - UPHF
Published in: EURO2021 Conference, 2021
Publisher: EURO2021 Conference

Container Barge Design to Optimize Hinterland Transport in Europe

Author(s): Borca, Bianca; Putz-Egger, Lisa-Maria; Bieringer, Bernhard
Published in: Proceedings of PIANC Smart Rivers 2022: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Issue Issue 264, 2022, ISBN 978-981-19-6138-0
Publisher: PIANC Smart Rivers
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-6138-0_71

Scheduled Service Network Design with Revenue Management Considerations and an Intermodal Barge Transportation Illustration

Author(s): Ghambari S., Oulad kouider T., Bilegan I.C., Crainic T., Rei W.
Published in: European Journal of Operational Research, Issue 300 (2), 2021, ISSN 0377-2217
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2021.07.032

Standardized logistics emission calculation in inland navigation: Status quo and challenges ahead

Author(s): Laura Hörandner; Lisa-Maria Putz-Egger; Patrick Specht; Beil Denise
Published in: Transport Research Arena 2022 Conference Paper, Issue 3, 2022
Publisher: Transport Research Arena
DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.614

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