Benefits and Problems of Monitoring the Waterway Transport on Danube and Danube Cruise Statistics Based on Monitoring the Pusher Tugboats

Abstract

This article deals with benefits and problems of using GPS monitoring and Inland AIS, which is the part of river information services operating on Danube. It is based mainly on results and experience from monitoring of two pusher tugboats on Danube and Danube – Main – Rhine canal within the project Chemlog T&T. It also contains statistics of their navigation on particular Danube sections in up stream and down stream direction, such as transit durations between particular ports, proportion of speed in percentage in particular Danube sections and delays in lock chambers or in front of them.

Proposal of an Enhanced Safety System on Board of the Inland Vessel

“…If the software evaluates that the position of the vessel to the voyage is not optimal, it would send the information to the monitoring system. The second evaluation algorithm would then alert the boat master [12]. An essential element in position tracking in combination with the evaluation algorithm is to determine the permissible deviation, since in the case of dynamic changes on the waterway it is not always possible to maintain the optimal system rate.…”