Research Study of River Information Services on the US Inland Waterway Network
Abstract
At the very beginning of the cooperation development of the US e-Navigation (e-Nav) strategy had been started. The US e-Nav strategy defines the approach to introduce intelligent information services in US coastal and inland waters. It identifies stakeholders, relevant agencies and bodies, related technologies proposed services as well as the implementation strategy. The document clearly identifies RIS as the vehicle for implementing e-Nav on inland waterways. As the US inland waterway network comprises 196 lock sites on the main navigable rivers, the safe and efficient management of barge traffic through these locks has been identified as one of the key goals for RIS implementation. Based on the experiences of the US Coast Guard (USCG) Nationwide Automatic Identification System (NAIS) and the lessons learned from AIS implementation on European waterways the concept for the LOMA system was elaborated and contracted to an USACE software supplier. A major portion of this project's resources were invested in elaborating the different parts of the LOMA specifications and to manage the interface with the software supplier. The acceptance of the LOMA system was achieved in September 2012 after an intensive acceptance procure laid down in the Acceptance Test Plan (ATP) comprising over 150 pages of test descriptions. As a final part of this cooperative research project, recommendations for future development and implementation of RIS have been elaborated and are presented later in this document.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2012
- Accession Number
- ADA567477
Entities
People
- Juergen Troegl