PIANC Smart Rivers 2022

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Starting at the beginning of this century, the implementation of River Information Services (RIS) in Europe was focused mainly on national level resulting in a lack of interoperability between the national RIS systems and it was realised that the services to support transport management are limited and the potential benefits could not be utilised. Therefore, Corridor Management was considered as the next step in the development of RIS.

Within the EU-funded project CoRISMa (Corridor RIS Management) several EU member states defined the concept of “RIS enabled Corridor Management on Inland Waterways in Europe” under the coordination of Rijkswaterstaat (NL) in 2014-2015. RIS Corridor Management aims at linking the existing fragmented services together on a corridor in order to supply RIS not just locally but along the complete network.

In order to overcome the existing grown fragmentation of RIS as setback hindering the development of new services towards synchro modality and competitivity of Inland Waterway Transport, partners from 13 European countries joined their forces within the CEF co-funded multi-beneficiary project RIS COMEX in order to realise the concept of RIS enabled Corridor Management along the European inland waterway corridors.

In order to provide the specified RIS Corridor Services to the users, the RIS COMEX consortium agreed to realise a common and centralised RIS platform, the EuRIS system. EuRIS, an adapted clone of the existing Flemish VisuRIS system, was advanced to serve as European RIS platform fulfilling a great variety of information needs of inland waterway stakeholders. Numerous national systems are interconnected to EuRIS and serve as data sources providing actual and predicted information about the fairways and infrastructures as well as vessel specific information like their actual positions and other static and dynamic data. By processing all input data, EuRIS provides a variety of information services to all kinds of users like skippers, vessel operators, logistics and authorities as single access point, preventing the users from having to gather all relevant information from many different websites and portals in a cumbersome approach. Vessel- and voyage specific information are only available for authorised users, being authorities based on existing laws and regulations as well as skippers and vessel operators for their own vessels. Additional access permissions can be granted for other logistics users by the vessel operator.

In order to prepare and ensure a sustainable operation of EuRIS, special focus was put into the establishment of the necessary legal, organisational and financial frameworks which resulted in several legal arrangements and organisational agreements towards a coordinated and joint operation and further development of EuRIS. After an intense testing and evaluation phase, EuRIS became operational and thus available for the users by mid-2022.

This conference contribution will introduce the EuRIS system focusing on the system architecture and the provided RIS Corridor Services as well as on the established frameworks for the joint and sustainable operation.

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