River Information Services and COMPRIS The last step towards the pan-European implementation of RIS Cas Willems Project manager COMPRIS

Rivier Information Services Voyage planning Lock/bridge management Enforcement Statistics Harbour & Terminal management Vessel Traffic management Calamity abatement Transport management River Information Services

RIS in Europe status 2005 Rotterdam 2001; European conference of ministers of Transport –Declaration of Rotterdam: RIS in operation in 2005 throughout Europe RIS is accepted in Europe on public and private level RIS is imbedded in international and national policy plans –EC-RIS directive IRIS; Harmonised RIS implementation on pan- European level

RIS in Europe Status 2005 Standards are formalised (CCNR and UN ECE) –Inland ECDIS (Electronic Chart Display and Information System) –Notices to Skippers –Electronic Reporting (voyages and cargo) –RIS guidelines System suppliers adopted the RIS standards in their systems and applications

EC - RIS Directive Member States have to take measures to: –Implement and operate RIS on all European Inland Waterways of class IV and higher –Ensure that the transport sector can meet with the requirements under this Directive Member states are responsible for: –Supply of a minimum dataset to facilitate voyage planning –Electronic Nautical Charts for fairway class Va and higher –Facilities for electronic reporting –Electronic publication of Notices to skippers –Establish and operate RIS Centres

COMPRIS project characteristics EC project Project budget: 10 M Euro 44 partners : –Ministries of transport –Transport industry –Research –ICT companies

Project phases Phase 1: Development of the Pan-European RIS architecture Phase 2: Design phase –VTM and tracking & tracing –Inland ECDIS –Cross border information exchange –RIS interfaces for the exchange of transport information Phase 3: Operational Test Platforms Phase 4: Demonstrators

RIS Architecture “Pan-European RIS Architecture” : –Reference architecture –Functional architecture –Information and data architecture –Organisational architecture Adopted by PIANC and CCNR in the RIS guidelines Synergy with KAREN/road architecture

Inland ECDIS pre-production results

Inland ECDIS applications Inland ECDIS Viewer - display of new features Full integration of ECDIS viewer (Tresco) and voyage planning (Noordersoft) Data exchange with ECDIS navigation application (IN), fuel optimisation application (TF) and BICS

Vessel Traffic Management Developed VTM concepts; functional driven and focus on applying new/available technology Concepts for lock management Procedures on calamity abatement Tracking and tracing technology

RIS for logistics COMPRIS proves the value of RIS for logistics through the “LDPris portal” –BORIS –Hull information –Exchange of voyage related info –Position information –Loading (pre-loading list) information messages

Cross border information services Principal services Immigration Inspection Customs Dangerous Cargo Notification Voyage reporting Statistics and Waste management Invoicing Security as a hot topic

Cross border information services Close relation to reporting standards developed in ERI Hot topic for the coming years; COMPRIS did set the scene and proves that standards are available for all mentioned services

COMPRIS set standards Inland ECDIS standard –Extended with additional objects and features –One (data) standard for USA, Canada and Europe and Russia as a result of the active approach of COMPRIS Notices to Skippers: –Language independent –Integration with inland ECDIS Tracking and Tracing – automatic identification –Draft standard available –Based on maritime AIS and interoperable with Maritime AIS –Position, ship and voyage related data

Operational Test Platforms Operational Test Platforms for RIS conformity tests –Integration and interfacing –Standardisation –Functionality Test Centres in: –VTS centre Nijmegen –Traffic centre Oberwesel –Monitoring Centre Danube/Vienna –Test vessels: Governmental and commercial (about 40)

OTP concept OTP- NIJMEGEN OTP- OBERWESEL OTP- DANUBE Position Server Voyage Pl. Server LDP Server RIS/NTS/ENC Servers ERI Server AI-IP Server European Network Lock-planning Terminal Operator Logistic appl. IVS90 (MIB?) Others Governmental Ships Commercial Ships Governmental Ships Commercial Ships

Voyage planning Lock and bridge management Supervisory tasks Statistics Harbour and Terminal management Traffic monitoring ( Navigation and Vessel Traffic Management ) Calamity abatement Transport management River Information Services COMPRIS’ success Exchange of information in a structure way through practical and usable standards Integrated applications Up to date proven technology Ready for operational use Pan-European co-operation

Conclusions RIS is high on the European political agenda COMPRIS is in Europe in the centre of RIS developments COMPRIS proves that RIS is ready for implementation RIS improves safety and efficiency of transport and thus can improve the position of inland navigation in the transport chain

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