Improving the Estimation of Ship Travel Times on Inland Waterways

The authors present an advanced method for estimating ship travel times on an inland waterway based on recorded ship trajectories. In contrast to previously published methods based on average travel times, the authors extend their modelling approach with respect to properties of the ship (length, width and forward) and environmental conditions (rain, illumination and wind). Input variables and modelling approaches have been varied for the different periods of a ship travelling on an inland waterway. While environmental conditions influence the travel time of a ship for driving into a lock, there is no effect visible during driving out. Travel times on sections between locks have been estimated based on previously observed speeds of the same ship. A previously presented method has been extended by a non-linear modelling approach, leading to superior results as shown by evaluations compared to the state of the art methods.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Alternate title: Improving Estimation of Ship Travel Times on Inland Waterways. This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AW020 Inland Water Transportation.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Asamer, Johannes
  • Prandtstetter, Matthias
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
• Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 14p
• Monograph Title: TRB 94th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Estimating; Inland waterways; Locks (Waterways); Ships; Travel time; Vehicle characteristics; Vehicle trajectories
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01551374
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 15-3843
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 27 2015 11:23AM