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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kotzé, Marcus
• Junaid, Ali Bin
• Afzal, Muhammad Raheel
• Peeters, Gerben
• Slaets, Peter

Titel

Use of Uncertainty Zones for Vessel Operation in Inland Waterways

Ist Teil von

• Journal of physics. Conference series, 2019-10, Vol.1357 (1), p.12031

Ort / Verlag

Bristol: IOP Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• European inland waterways represent an underutilised avenue of transport. Increased use of this avenue has the possibility to decrease emissions and remove traffic from congested roadways. However, there is a shortage of skilled shippers and labour costs threaten to make waterway transport economically unviable. By creating smart ships, the requirement for skilled shippers decreases. The Hull-to-Hull (H2H) project, part of the European Horizon 2020 program, aims to do this through various methods, one of which is the creation of a smart ship navigation system. This system makes use of uncertainty zones in its display and control software to assist a vessel's helmsman in making safe navigation decisions. Based on the ship's dynamics and current operating scenario, the uncertainty zones will change shape and size, and different notifications will be given to the helmsman based on the overlapping of the uncertainty zones. This paper focusses on the uncertainty zone based navigation system currently being developed for the inland waterway use case.