IRIS Europe 3
Project acronym
IRIS Europe 3
Project title
Project of common interest „IRIS Europe 3“ 2011-EU-70001-S in the area of trans-european transport networks
Project duration
January 2012 – December 2014
Programme
Project is co-financed by the European Union from the budget of TEN-T Executive Agency Programme covering 50% of project eligible costs, whereas remaining 50% of the project costs will be covered by the national budgetary funds of individual beneficiaries.
The beneficiaries of financial aid as well as the project results are individual ministries of transport of 7 European countries, which are actively involved in the project – Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. Slovak beneficiary is the Ministry of transport, construction and regional development of the Slovak Republic. The project in Slovak Republic is executed by the consortium of project partners consisting of Research Transport Institute (Výskumný Ústav Dopravný, a.s.) and company KIOS, Ltd. the same way the preceding projects IRIS Europe I & II has been carried out. Cooperation partners and observers in the project IRIS Europe 3 are represented by partners from France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Croatia, Serbia and Ukraine.
Project description and main objective
IRIS Europe 3 is thriving to contribute to an increased safety, efficiency and environmental friendliness of inland navigation. Indeed, with this project, the harmonized implementation of RIS in Europe will make a major step forward toward the following:
- Enhanced services for governmental and logistics users on the European waterways,
- Geographical extension of River Information Services in Europe,
- Ensuring minimum service level quality for the (commercial) users of the waterway.
Main objective of project IRIS Europe 3 is active involvement of logistics user into RIS system by means of pilot implementation of appropriate information systems and carrying out of their pilot operation on national and international level.
Breakdown of project activities and roles of KIOS
In order to reach the main goal of the project, necessary works in the following work packages will be carried out:
Activity 1: Pilot implementation of enhanced Fairway Information Services
Activity 2: Pilot implementation of Traffic and Transport Information Services
Activity 3: Pilot implementation of quality of information services for RIS
Activity 4: Pilot implementation of information services for logistics and authorities
Activity 5: Transition support towards regular RIS operation
Activity 6: Project management
Slovak Republic represented by the consortium of project partners VÚD and KIOS actively participates in the implementation of the following sub activities of the project:
Sub-Activity 1.2: Transient water level models
Sub-Activity 1.4: RIS basic data / reference data
Sub-Activity 2.4: Feasibility study / pilot implementation for mobile RIS applications
Sub-Activity 2.5: Calamity Abatement and Incident Management Services
Sub-Activity 3.1: Definition of Quality of Services for RIS
Sub-Activity 3.2: Pilot implementation of QoIS for Notices to Skippers (NtS)
Sub-Activity 3.3: Pilot implementation of QoIS for Electronic Ship Reporting (ERI)
Sub-Activity 3.4: Pilot implementation of QoIS for Vessel Tracking and Tracing (VTT)
Sub-Activity 3.6: Pilot implementation of QoIS for the RIS Index
Sub-Activity 3.7: Pilot implementation of QoIS for the international RIS data exchange
Sub-Activity 4.1: Organisational and legal framework for international RIS data exchange
Sub-Activity 4.2: Enhancement of interfaces for logistics within RIS data exchange
Sub-Activity 4.3: Enhancement of interfaces for authorities within RIS data exchange
Sub-Activity 4.4: Enhancement of Interconnections with European Services
Sub-Activity 5.1: Support to Standardisation of RIS key technologies
Sub-Activity 5.2: Establishment of national frameworks for RIS provision and operation
Sub-Activity 5.3: Concept and establishment of RIS Stakeholder Forums
Sub-Activity 6.1: Project Management
Sub-Activity 6.2: Dissemination
Sub-Activity 6.3: Liaison with relevant projects and initiatives
In case of Sub-Activitties 2.4, 2.5, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 Slovak Republic represented by the company KIOS, Ltd. acts as the leading country/partner of the Sub-Activities.
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