PIANC Smart Rivers 2022

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River Information Services (RIS) in Europe have been created to enhance Inland Waterway Transport (IWT) in terms of safety and efficiency of transport by means of telematics. However, the existing grown fragmentation of services was identified as setback hindering the development of new services towards synchro modality and competitivity of Inland Waterway Transport. In order to overcome this situation, the concept of RIS enabled Corridor Management was developed, which has now been implemented for European inland waterway corridors by 14 countries within the framework of the CEF co-funded multi-beneficiary project RIS COMEX.

As a result, a new common European RIS platform (EuRIS) was established, enabling the use of a variety of harmonized RIS services in all participating countries with a single access point. As further part of these new common RIS services, 8 countries have also developed the common ERI system CEERIS (Central and Eastern European Reporting Information System), which is closely linked to the services and security features offered in EuRIS.

The novel centralized architecture enables users to fulfil all reporting obligations configured along their route with a central access point for one or more voyages by a single data entry, using his EuRIS data including access and reporting rights for claimed vessels. Thereby, the user does not have to take care about the complexity of reporting procedures and the further delivery of reports to the respective receiving authorities. The smart distribution of reports is managed by the system in the background proving all competent authorities with their reports based on the respective legal basis and configured means. Thus, reports can be received either through GUI or email as XML, PDF or as a graphical template. Furthermore, data delivery and notifications using webhook are supported as well as the delivery of XML messages via API.

Moreover, the system covers a wide scope of receiving authorities, including authorities dealing with traffic management, customs, border police, statistics and ports in addition to the national RIS authorities.  In order to be able to cover all responsibilities of these authorities, missing ERI XSDs such as INVRPT, WASDIS and CUSCAR were developed in the course of the implementation in order to be able to support reporting of ship stores, waste disposal and bill of lading using XML message transmission via webservice. For this purpose, an extended ERI data pool, the so called SoaD (sum of all data fields) including mapping to all ERI XSDs, was established. Furthermore, smart user management secures access authorization according to the consent agreement of reporting parties – consequently data can also be used by authorised third parties such as shippers, fleet managers and other logistics partners, expanding the circle of beneficiaries.

The CEERIS system was released in spring 2022 and pursues the goal of gradually reducing existing reporting burdens with an increasing number of participating receiving authorities in the CEE region in the future. This conference contribution will introduce the implemented novel system architecture and highlight benefits for different stakeholders together with further future development possibilities.

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