The development of inland waterway transport systems is crucial to achieving sustainable transportation by reducing environmental impact, improving safety, and supporting economic efficiency. However, the varying geographic, climatic, and infrastruct...
The aim of the article is to analyse the transport accessibility of the Tri-City seaports as well as to verify the necessity of starting the inland navigation. The proposal to develop inland navigation by creating new and developing existing waterway...
Germany has a wide-meshed waterway network. Although inland navigation is one of the most efficient transportation methods, its share of transport is steadily decreasing. The research project Smart-Port-Shuttle Hildesheim aims to strengthen the water...
Emissions originating from inland navigation should be reduced to achieve climate targets. This paper aims to identify (1) onboard GHG emission measurement systems, (2) calculation methods for GHG emissions of inland vessels and (3) reduction measure...
Background: Inland waterway transport is characterised by its large loading capacity, low transport costs, and minimal negative environmental impact. Inland navigation is often the first choice as an alternative to special transport of goods, such as...
The aim of this research is to propose a new solution to assist sailors in safe navigation on inland shallow waters by using Augmented and Virtual Reality. Despite continuous progress in the methodology of displaying bathymetric data and 3D models of...
Inland navigation is hardly ever used to transport cargo in cities. In most urban areas, it is performed almost exclusively via road transport, with the virtual exclusion of rail and inland transport. Research and implementation projects in several E...
This study explores the potential of inland navigation as a key component of Poland’s sustainable transportation strategy, focusing on the Opole–Szczecin route. It emphasizes inland waterways as an eco-friendly and efficient alternative t...
The presented article concerns the development of inland navigation in Poland. The aim is to determine and analyse factors that influence the development of this branch of transportation. To determine the parameters that are subject to further analys...
In response to the pressing need for transportation decarbonization, this paper examines the often overlooked domain of inland waterway transport and seeks to answer which alternative fuel or power source is the most promising for that sector. As the...
The inherent complexity of traffic patterns in inland river tributary waterways presents significant challenges in predicting ship behavior, resulting in elevated accident risks compared to general waterways. With the intelligent development of inlan...
Consumer-grade graphics processing units (GPUs) offer a potentially affordable and energy-efficient alternative to enterprise-class hardware for real-time image processing tasks, but systematic multi-criteria analyses of their suitability remain rare...
Maritime navigation safety relies on preventing accidents, such as collisions and groundings. However, several factors can exacerbate these risks, including inexistent or inadequate buoyage systems and nautical charts with outdated bathymetry. The In...
Intelligent navigation is a crucial component of intelligent ships. This study focuses on the situational awareness of intelligent navigation in inland waterways with high vessel traffic densities and increased collision risks, which demand enhanced...
Even though inland navigation represents the safest transport mode, consequences of accidents are significantly higher, because of the larger quantities of cargo transported, compared with the conventional means of transport. Accidents in inland wate...
Interest in hybrid propulsion systems that can be used on small vessels has increased significantly in recent years. They can replace inefficient and environmentally burdensome conventional systems based on diesel engines. Hybrid propulsion has many...
One of the main methods of the path localization of moving objects is positioning using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) in cooperation with Inertial Navigation Systems (INSs). Its basic task is to provide high availability, in particular...
Compared to maritime vessel traffic accidents, there is a scarcity of available, and only incomplete, accident data for inland waterway accidents. Additionally, the characteristics of different waterway segments vary significantly, and the factors af...
In recent years, the share of cargo transport in Poland’s water has been marginal. Through comprehensively reviewing 61 relevant studies in the field, supplemented by the investigation of several important databases, this paper estimates the hi...
To provide a reference for practical applications of green and intelligent inland vessels, this paper summarizes the development status and five key technologies of green intelligent inland vessels in China. Green and intelligent inland vessels will...
Water transport, both sea and inland, is the cheapest, least invasive, and safest option for non-standard loads; hence, it is important to increase the percentage share of inland waterway transport on the rivers of Central and Eastern Europe. Transpo...
Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) has emerged as an effective technique for inland water body detection due to its high sensitivity to inland waters. However, existing methods for inland water body detection using CYGNSS are limited...
The objective of the present work was to perform a 30-year analysis of some significant meteorological and hydrological processes along the Lower Danube. This was motivated by the fact that, due to the effects of climate change, the global configurat...
Motivated by the operational scenarios of lock scheduling, we propose a serial-lock chain navigation problem (SLCNP) modeled on the Three Gorges-Gezhouba Dam (TGGD) for the first time. Ship grouping, synchronized moving, and grouped waiting operation...
Accurate forecasting of river siltation is essential for ensuring inland waterway navigability and guiding sustainable sediment management. This study investigates the downstream reach of the Shihutang navigation power hub along the Ganjiang River in...
The multi-functional buoy is an important facility for assisting the navigation of inland waterway ships. Therefore, real-time tracking of its position is an essential process to ensure the safety of ship navigation. Aiming at the problem of the low...
The Brazilian Amazon is part of one of the largest river systems in the world, in which the transport of cargo and passengers is commonplace. However, several accidents still occur to passenger ships, causing fatalities. Transportation occurs commonl...
This paper aims to present the main trends of an eco-study for a possibly challenging future inland waterway transportation project. The study will prove if Torun and its Vistula stretch represent a viable and profitable spot on this inland waterway,...
Retention reservoirs are one of the basic elements of water management. Multifunctional, they are used for flood protection, drought prevention and other purposes. Water reservoirs can also play a fundamental role in improving navigability on the low...
Identifying the main sources of risk for different types of waterways helps to develop targeted risk control strategies for different river segments. To improve the level of risk management in inland waterways for sustainable development, a two-stage...
Two thousand years of human interventions has heavily modified the Dutch Rhine river. Situated in a densely populated and developed delta, the river and its infrastructure fulfil important societal functions: safety against flooding, inland waterways...
Unsteady flow induced by hydropower stations exerts a significant impact on the water level in multi-approach channels, which directly threatens the safe passage of ships. In this study, a one-dimensional and a two-dimensional hydrodynamic model are...
The aim of the research is to identify the optimal method for smoothing the surface of a hybrid digital bathymetric model (HDBM). The initiation of this research is justified by the fact that a model created from diverse types of data may have differ...
Digital twin is an attractive technology for the representation of objects due to its ability to produce precise measurements and their geovisualisation. Of special interest is the application and fusion of various remote sensing techniques for shall...
The Brazilian Amazon has one of the largest river networks in the world, connecting riverine communities, many of which have no roadways. The use of high-speed vessels, including those that are locally made, is necessary for the transportation of peo...
In the Amazon basin, there are few terrestrial communication routes between cities, so river transport is often the only viable alternative for people and cargo. Although high-speed vessels are common in the region, they face operational challenges t...
Ship path planning is crucial for the shipping industry, especially for the development of autonomous ships. Many algorithms have been developed over the last few decades to solve the ship path planning problem. However, it is still challenging for s...
Path planning is a key issue for safe navigation of inland ferries. With the development of ship intelligence, how to enhance the decision–support system of a ferry in a complex navigation environment is one of the key issues. The inland ferrie...
Inland waterway transport is an important mode of transportation for many countries and regions. Route planning optimization can reduce navigation time, avoid traffic congestion, and improve transportation efficiency. In actual operations, many vesse...
It is important to improve the localization accuracy of the unmanned surface vehicle (USV) for ensuring safe navigation in an inland waterway scenario. However, the localization accuracy of the USV is affected by the limited availability of global na...
A ship collision risk assessment model is an essential part of ship safety navigation. At present, the open water collision risk assessment model (such as the closest point of approach) is applied, but a ship collision risk model suitable for inland...
Inland waterway navigation involves complex traffic conditions with frequent multi-ship encounters. Benefiting from its straightforward structure and robust adaptability, reinforcement learning has found applications in navigation. This article propo...
In Ukraine, there has been an increase in agricultural production. The availability of river basins and seaports contributes to the use of inland shipping. However, there is a lack of understanding of how to reduce the energy consumption of inland sh...
Inland water bodies, wetlands and their dynamics have a key role in a variety of scientific, economic, and social applications. They are significant in identifying climate change, water resource management, agricultural productivity, and the modeling...
Due to the influence of the natural environment, it is very challenging to control the movement of ships to navigate safely and avoid potential risks induced by external environmental factors, especially for the development of autonomous ships in inl...
In recent years, with the continuous advancement of the construction of the Yangtze River’s intelligent waterway system, unmanned surface vehicles have been increasingly used in the river’s inland waterways. This article proposes a hybrid...
GNSS is an indispensable source of positioning, navigation and timing for many sectors, including inland waterway transport. Unfortunately, GNSS is also vulnerable to interference, including intentional jamming and spoofing. This paper evaluates the...
The Loran-C system employs the spherical hyperbola positioning (SHP) method. However, SHP has three drawbacks in inland regions: first, approximating the Earth’s ellipsoid as a sphere introduces positioning errors; second, hyperbola positioning...
For the motion control of ships in confined and curved waterways, from broad coastal channels to narrow river bends, conventional methods often struggle to ensure both tracking accuracy and navigational safety. A key deficiency is the inability of st...
Ship detection and tracking is an important task in video surveillance in inland waterways. However, ships in inland navigation are faced with accidents such as collisions. For collision avoidance, we should strengthen the monitoring of navigation an...
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