In view of data mining for the decision-making of the inland waterway transportation, we study a rough set based approach to extract the decision rules with historical maritime accidents data in the inland rivers. In order to solve the NP-hard problem of attribute reduction in Rough Set Theory, the genetic algorithm based attribute reduction is proposed and described in detailed steps. Noting t...

AIS (Automatic Identification System) data provides valuable input parameters in ship traffic simulation models for risk analysis and the prevention of shipping accidents. This paper reports on the detailed analysis of AIS data for modeling purposes. This analysis is focused on restricted waterways to support inland waterway simulations, comparing the differences between a narrow waterway in th...

The Role of the Danube River in Trans-European Waterway Network
 In 20th century, Region was subject to numerous and far-reaching political transformations, which had a negative impact on expansion waterway transport, affected mainly by political, economical military crises that took place 1990s. Nowadays, only 9% all river cargo is shipped via River. European Union makes an effort increas...

Recent studies in system resilience have proposed metrics to understand the ability of systems to recover from a disruptive event, often offering a qualitative treatment of resilience. This work provides a quantitative treatment of resilience and focuses specifically on measuring resilience in infrastructure networks. Inherent cost metrics are introduced: loss of service cost and total network ...

Trade within Africa is at an all-time low, with a lack of optimal intermodal transportation network and high cost business serving as deterrent to trade. This research studies Intra-African ECOWAS using hierarchical spatial aggregation process identify 27 nodes. Distance-based weighted centrality measures employed TOPSIS model ranked node Economic Community West African States (ECOWAS) transpor...

Proceedings of the International Conference on Harbor, Maritime and Multimodal Logistics Modeling & Simulation, HMS 2009 ISBN 978-84-692-5416-5 146 ABSTRACT The Navigation System Simulation (NaSS) suite of tools has been developed by the Institute for Water Resources of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), as part of the Navigation Technologies Research Program. NaSS is composed of two pri...

This paper aims to present the main trends of an eco-study for a possibly challenging future inland waterway transportation project. The study will prove if Torun and its Vistula stretch represent viable profitable spot on this waterway, outcomes constitute sound baseline that can be used project itself but also many scientific, educational economic purposes. eco-multilayer research comprise fo...

Abstract In recent years, the rapid development of GIS, remote sensing, big data and other spatial information technologies have provided a huge driving force for construction many industries. As an important branch transportation field, inland water also has great opportunities in construction. Since second National Inland Waterway Census, changes taken place current situation China’s waterway...