Dipl.-Ing. Dennis Harlacher

Assessment procedure of the trafficability

of inland waterways

12th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, HIC 2016

“Smart Water for the Future”

River Navigation Assessment - RiNA

University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute of Ship Technology, Ocean Engineering and Transport System

Duisburg, Germany

Songdo ConvensiA, Incheon, Korea 21 August – 26 August, 2016

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Content

1. Aims of the assessment procedure RiNA

2. Assessment procedure RiNA

- Components and structure

- Development of single and total potentials

- Analysis tools

3. Case studies on the river Rhine

- Total potential development by discharge for undisturbed traffic

- Validation of total potentials

- Total potentials of trafficability for fluent traffic

4. Prospect

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The trafficability of inland waterways can be analysed by a suitable combination of

nautical relevant information from several disciplines

Aims of the assessment procedure RiNA

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The surface visualisation of the

trafficability is based on different,

interdisciplinary input data,

such as

- geometric properties of the river

and several variants concerning

the hydraulic model, respectively,

- hydraulic parameters of a

multidimensional CFD-model,

- parameters of inland waterway

vessels or requirements

concerning the fairway and

- objects from the Inland Electronic

Navigational Charts, optionally with

additional information.

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Assessment procedure RiNA:

Components and structure

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Constant, graded (distance based) and

multistep procedures can be chosen for the

single potential development

Generation of single potentials for the different

specialised fields in consideration of

- Flow Parameters

(e. g. water depth and flow velocities)

- Parameters of inland waterway vessels or special

requirements concerning the fairway

(e.g. minimum depth, velocity limit, driving direction)

- Objects of the Inland ENC (e. g. fairway, buoys, berths)

and additional information (e. g. driving rules)

A safety clearance (e. g. around a bridge pier, etc.) can be

defined for each object

Transform of single potentials to total potentials by suitable

combination and weighting

Assessment procedure RiNA:

Potential development

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potential legend

flow depth [m]

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Assessment procedure RiNA:

Potential development

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Flow depth

Flow velocity

Total Potential (downstream)

potential legend

potential legend

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Assessment procedure RiNA:

Potential development

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Flow depth

Flow velocity

Fairways, traffic signs, berths, middle of waterway, …

Total Potential (downstream)

Fairway

potential legend

potential legend

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Assessment procedure RiNA:

Potential development

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Flow depth

Flow velocity

Fairways, traffic signs, berths, middle of waterway, …

Total Potential (downstream)

Regulation during high water level

potential legend

potential legend

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Visual analysis and

compare of recorded

ship passages (here: a

single-rowed pushing

unit) and the total

potential downstream

The total potential was

developed at a high

water level regarding

flow characteristics,

berths, tons and traffic

rules

Assessment procedure RiNA:

Analysis tools

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Analysis tools (area based) for assessment and evaluation of trafficability of the potentials

Analysis tools allow for example the local computation of statistical parameters of single

sections of the waterway or special ship tracks and the determination of bottle-necks,

longitudinal or cross sections

Assessment procedure RiNA:

Analysis tools

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LW

HW

river kilometre

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flow velocity

[m/s]

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Case study: Section on Upper/Middle Rhine

Total potential development by discharge

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A C B

LW

HW

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(m

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f th

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river kilometre

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Case study: Section on Upper/Middle Rhine

Validation of total potentials

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total potential (mean) of the fairway or the ship [-]

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radius [m]

angl

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egre

e]

input data

Case study: Section on Lower Rhine

Potentials of trafficability for fluent traffic

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radius [m]

angl

e [d

egre

e]

grouping and statistic parameters

Case study: Section on Lower Rhine

Potentials of trafficability for fluent traffic

Minimum

Mean

Max.

Input data

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radius [m]

angl

e [d

egre

e]

development of adaptation functions

Case study: Section on Lower Rhine

Potentials of trafficability for fluent traffic

Minimum

Good ride

Mean

Moderate ride

Max.

Weak ride

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Case study: Section on Lower Rhine

Potentials of trafficability for fluent traffic

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Case study: Section on Lower Rhine

Potentials of trafficability for fluent traffic

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Choosing

ship type

dimensions (length, width)

direction (up- / downstream)

quality of the ride and the

parameters (a, c, n) of the function

storage location

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Case study: Section on Lower Rhine

Potentials of trafficability for fluent traffic

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Choosing

ship type

dimensions (length, width)

direction (up- / downstream)

quality of the ride and the

parameters (a, c, n) of the function

storage location

good ride moderate ride weak ride

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Case study: Section on Lower Rhine

Potentials of trafficability for fluent traffic

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Choosing

ship type

dimensions (length, width)

direction (up- / downstream)

quality of the ride and the

parameters (a, c, n) of the function

storage location

good ride moderate ride weak ride

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Development of time dependent trafficability potentials for fluent traffic

Coupling with ship dynamic models

Visualisation of the potential, optionally of the ship track in the Inland ENC

or providing as a Web Map Service (WMS) for the ship masters

Prospect

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Dipl.-Ing. Dennis Harlacher

University of Duisburg-Essen,

Institute of Ship Technology,

Ocean Engineering and Transport System

in Duisburg, Germany

The project is sponsored by the

Federal Waterways Engineering and Research

Institute (BAW) in Germany

Thank you

for your attention!

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