PIANC Smart Rivers 2022

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Decisions to transport cargo on a particular mode of transport are often made long in advance today. As a result, the most efficient mode of transport, let alone climate-neutral transport, is usually not used. There are many reasons: contractual obligations, limitations in the field of infrastructure, but often also ignorance. Biggest victim is the climate as the transport sector is responsible for 21% of the total carbon emission as of 2021. Inland shipping will be an important enabler to reduce this number. Apart from that, also the environment suffers as while roads are saturated, other modes offer often a valid alternative. However, it should be possible to make a decision on the spot, not weeks or months before like today. Missing components today are infrastructure – smart hubs and data. 
In the future rational decisions will be made by supercomputers based on information from multiple sources. As a result  we will notice that goods typically will no longer reach their destination via one mode of transport, but that the path of least resistance (the most climate-friendly in relation to the contract) will be chosen. In order to allow these decisions to be made in relation to the other transport modes (road, rail and air), it is therefore crucial that inland shipping can provide relevant transport and network data in a generic way. It will take years to realize this goal. A step-by-step approach driven by use cases is suggested.
Use case: sharing transport-report and location information from inland vessels. 
As of 2022, all cargo movements in the Flanders region on inland shipping must be obligatory reported to the competent authority in a digital and standardized way. One stop shop principle is applied for the skipper. Today, this information is only used on an operational level by the competent authorities. As this information is also crucial as an enabler for a sustainable logistic chain in B2B -e.g. more efficient terminal planning leads to less congestion and less carbon pollution, a solution to share this data on a data sharing platform will be proposed. Conditions are a strict appointment system in relation with the legal requirements. 
The progress of this work with – if applicable -  an actual demo will be presented during the Smart Rivers Conference in 2022, providing the audience a good insight at the current and future situation.

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