Geographic Information System (GIS) tools for aiding development of inland waterways fleet

Abstract

The information aiding of planning and operation of inland waterways fleet covers many items among which problems associated with analysis of existing waterways are especially important. Such analyses concern mainly their navigability features (from the point of view of elaboration of design assumptions for floating units) as well as planning land-waterborne transport links. Range of input data for the analyses is very broad hence they can be next used for managing the waterways. This paper presents a concept of forming the GIS data model for the purposes of INCOWATRANS project with taking into consideration the existing data and their possible usage by the administration of waterways and their other users.