DANewBE Data – Digitally Advanced New Cross-Border Exchange of Waterway Data

5C093

via donau - Österreichische Wasserstraßen-Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Donau City Straße 1
1220 Vienna
Austria

DI Markus Schedlbauer
Tel.:	+435043211702
Fax:	+435043211050
Email:	markus.schedlbauer@via-donau.org
Homepage:	http://www.d4d.info/index.php?id=4216&L=

2 - Transport systems and IS
2.1 - Efficient transport systems

(See here for a priorities and measures overview)

3rd Call

The gradual accession of Slovakia and Hungary to the European Union will intensify the transport of goods significantly. To establish inland navigation on the Danube as an effective alternative to transport by road and rail, modern IT-based services are needed. Various projects, such as the INTERREG III B project D4D are dealing with such implementations on the Upper Danube in Austria and Germany. DANewBE Data shall transfer and further develop those experiences to the other Danube countries. The project sets up close co-operation between waterway administrations along the Danube waterway, including those from relevant new EU Member States. DANewBe Data aims at providing interoperable navigation support services for inland waterways.

Feasibility studies and pilot operations shall ensure sound and high-quality compilation of data, accurate positioning signals, efficient exchange of geo-related data and preparation of electronic charts. The involvement of similar administrations from non-EU Danube countries will ensure that the project also meets their requirements and prepares an extension of project results towards the Black Sea. DANewBE Data will enable authorities to fulfil their obligation as service providers preparing the basis for IT-based information systems along the Danube as the European Transport Corridor VII. Partners shall commonly define quality standards for services and feasibility studies for implementing internationally standardised systems. The final goal is to provide internationally compatible high-quality services to support the inland waterway transport sector and prepare the final implementation of modern IT-based systems according to European directives. GPS-based positioning systems have already been installed in Austria and Germany. In order to provide current information on the reliability and accuracy of those signals, transnational monitoring systems will be installed in a test phase. At the same time a feasibility study for the installation of a compatible beacon in Hungary will be worked out. These signals can then be used by captains to display the position of their vessels on electronic charts. Such charts will be worked out in close co-operation of the involved authorities. Austria and Germany are currently finalising their exchange of geo-related data and the network shall be extended to Slovakia and Hungary. This will ensure an even longer stretch of compatible charts and an intensive exchange of data among four countries. Finally, the most effective means to distribute the charts to captains will be defined and tested. To ensure a high quality of data consistency, common standards for measurements will be worked out, tested and transferred to national work flows.

Total budget (EUR):	2.091.000,00 EUR
ERDF:	1.433.375,00 EUR

Start:	01/2005
End:	12/2007

• via donau - Österreichische Wasserstraßen-Gesellschaft m.b.H., Vienna, Austria
• Wasser- und Schifffahrtsdirektion Süd (i.e. Waterway and Shipping Directorate South of Germany), Würzburg, Germany
• Slovensky Vodohospodarsky Podnik, s.p.(i.e. Slovak Water Management Enterprise, s.e.), Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia
• VITUKI - Environmental Protection and Waterway Management Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary
• National Assosation of Radio Distress-Signalling and Infocommunications (RSOE), Budapest, Hungary
• CRUP d.o.o. – Inland Navigation Development Centre Ltd., Zagreb, Croatia
• Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
• Executive Agency “Exploration and Maintenance of the Danube River” (EAMDR), Ruse, Bulgaria
• PLOVPUT – Government Agency for Maintenance and Development of Inland Waterways, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
• Odessa National Maritime Academy, Odessa, Ukraine
• State Enterprise “Delta-pilot”, Mykolaiv, Ukraine
• River Administration of the Lower Danube, Galati, Galati, Romania