An Integrated Approach to an Assessment of Bottlenecks for Navigation on Riverine Waterways

Water transport, both sea and inland, is the cheapest, least invasive, safest option for non-standard loads; hence, it important to increase percentage share of inland waterway transport on rivers Central Eastern Europe. Transporting cargo particularly difficult shallow waterways because overloaded with sediment determine vertical parameters waterways. A ship’s safe manoeuvrability depends available water depth navigational area concerning vessel’s draught. The draught related channel sediments. paper presents a model assessment new tool studying limitations ships carrying oversized bed Our analysis was carried out Vistula River lowland reach winter hydrological conditions. Lower in Poland clear example sedimentation problem. This also zone active sandy material; massive volume reaches 1 million cubic meters per year. results this research could be helpful management, risk entering beds such as River, project.