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 avai...

With the growth of traffic on inland waterways, autonomous driving technologies for vessels will gain increasing significance to ensure flow and safety. Inspired by car-following models road traffic, which demonstrated their strength reduce stop-and-go waves increase efficiency safety, we propose a vessel-following model waterways based deep reinforcement learning (RL). Our is trained under con...

This paper presents an initial study of the autopilot development of an unmanned surface vehicle (USV). The USV named Springer is being developed to carry out pollutant tracking, and environmental and hydrographic surveys in rivers, reservoirs, inland waterways and coastal waters, particularly where shallow waters prevail. The catamaran shaped autonomous vessel is modelled as a two input, singl...

The following paper describes the investigation of two old bridges over inland waterways in Germany under a possible ship impact. Both the numbers of ship impacts against bridges in Germany and the structural description of the bridges has been intensively dealt with. The investigation is based on probabilistic calculations to take into consideration the uncertainty of a possible impact and the...