Estimating Ship Travel Times on Inland Waterways
The authors present an innovative first-time adoption of two methods for estimating travel times of ships on inland waterways. These methods are based on historical data and currently observed velocities. Precondition for these methods is a tracking system for ships like the “Donau River Information Service” (DoRIS). The authors therefore developed and tested the approaches on the Austrian part of the Danube. Numerical results indicate a clear improvement of the reliability of estimated arrival times of ships compared to state-of-the-art approaches based on average travel times of ships solely. Operators of locks and harbors benefit from the provided information because they can optimize their processes subsequent to the arrival of a ship.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AW020(1) AW020 Paper Review Subcommittee.
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Corporate Authors:
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Authors:
- Asamer, Johannes
- Prandtstetter, Matthias
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC
- Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
- Date: 2014
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 14p
- Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Estimating; Inland waterways; Ships; Tracking systems; Travel time
- Geographic Terms: Danube River
- Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01516343
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 14-3020
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Feb 28 2014 1:32PM