PIANC Smart Rivers 2022

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Introduction
The AIRIS-PS project has been a project financed by the European Commission within the funding instrument of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) for Transport under the priority of River Information Services. The objective of the priority has been to implement the River Information Services in the Port of Seville and in the Guadalquivir harmonised with the practices applied In the European Inland Waterway Network. River Information Services and Systems has been designed to provide support to improve traffic and transport management and enhance operational procedures. RIS contribute in an essential way to the improved competitiveness of waterborne transport in the supply chain. In this sense, the AIRIS-PS project is considered as a key project for the improvement of the accessibility and capacity of the river access to the Port of Seville. River Information Services lead to the increase of transport to the Port of Seville not only allowing the increase of number of ships calling for Seville but also bigger vessels access.

River Information Services in a maritime environment and Strategic view of the results of the project
The AIRIS-PS Action has developed and implemented in a very successful way three types of RIS services:
•	Fairway Information Services (FIS)
•	Traffic information Services (TIS)
•	Traffic management Services (TMS)
The services are based on the services as define in the RIS Directive 2005/44/EC and implemented the above mentioned RIS services in full agreement with the Commission regulation no. 414/2007, being the Implementation guidelines or RIS Guidelines. 
The AIRIS Project is of high technological value and of a high impact on the port activities of the port of Seville and has allowed bringing the first steps to digitization of the Guadalquivir Euroway in order to monitor the entire estuary with sensors to obtain real time information about the state of the river, monitor and manage the vessel's traffic along the river. The substantial improvement of the services provided in the Guadalquivir Euroway through the RIS services implemented makes it possible to improve the traffic information and the management of the traffic of ships that use the Guadalquivir River as a waterway with origin or destination Seville. Applied technologies, such as that of the hydrological information service that can predict the height of the tide and the amount of water available throughout the route, jointly with traffic monitoring and travel's planification tools, allow the entry of ships with greater drafts and / or dimensions so that can perform their manoeuvres safely. Also, another tool that helps to better understand the waterway is the one that integrates information on the bathymetries, giving exact results that allow a better performance in the dredging of the river or that can facilitate the ideal location to allow the passage of two or more ships simultaneously without putting the ship itself or the congestion that may arise in the Euroway itself at risk. All this become in a tool in decision-making and port management that favours correct manoeuvrability of ships along the river and the prediction and correct management of hydrological and climatic conditions presented by the Euroway. 
The implementation of this Project also supposes a reduction in the costs derived from the transport, since, by allowing the passage through the Euroway del Guadalquivir of ships of greater dimensions and drafts, it is allowing the passage to a greater capacity of movement of the load because said ships will have greater transport capacities, which means a reduction in the cost of transporting the merchandise.
The impact that this Project generates is high, as it allows improving coordination between different actors in the port community on the exchange of data and generating direct impact on the end customer of the port. Apart from these good results obtained, the AIRIS Action is an excellent example for Europe as the implementation of the intelligent RIS services and technologies will bring the port of Seville in the coming years to a higher performance level through:
•	Optimize port resources (pilots, stevedores, moorings, tugboats). 
•	Improve under-keel-clearance predictions and real-time monitoring, the prediction of tides and windows, including some additional phenomena such as meteorological tides (storms and spring tides), river discharges, etc.
•	Improve the identification and detection of the position of vessels in critical sections of the river.
•	Improve ETA predictions by integrating with eNavigation developments. 
•	Improve cross-planning and real-time control of operations (Synchronization) between the water side (ships) and the land side (rail and road). 
•	Optimizing the speeds allowed in the waterway, as well as redefining the limitations for the crossing of vessels in the sections of the waterway and improve real-time control of joint operations (ship-train; ship-road). 
•	Improve document transfer by digitizing port processes. The FIS platform has a great capacity to interoperate both with systems - internal and external - as well as with physical devices. 
•	Optimize billing processes as the FIS platform allows the improvement of the quality of data mainly related to ship fees and, in the future, to the pricing of port services.
Conclusion
The RIS services generates and has a direct impact on the port management of the port of Seville. This impact is reflected at the European level, positioning Seville as a port that digitizes the entrance and exit channel of its port through technological tools that help to optimally manage the passage of ships from or to the sea, to the city of Seville. As the next step, after AIRIS I, APS is also involved in the AIRIS II Project, which addresses the implementation of RIS services associated with transport and intermodality management, through the development of real-time control and planning tools in order to improve the management of synchronization in the transport chain, considering the different modes of transport (rail, maritime and road trucks).

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