Projects
Innovation driven Collaborative European Inland Waterways Transport Network KU Leuven
IW-NET will deliver a multimodal optimisation process across the EU Transport System, increasing the modal share of IWT and supporting the EC’s ambitions to reduce transport GHG emissions by two thirds by 2050. Enablers for sustainable infrastructure management and innovative vessels will support an efficient and competitive IWT sector addressing infrastructure bottlenecks, insufficient IT integration along the chain and slow adoption of ...
Freight vOlumes transfer from Road to waterborne transport, using zero-EMission, Automated, Small and flexible vessel protoTypes Ghent University
FOREMAST R&I activities are structured along 4 ambition Pillars:
(P1) Selectable level of automation GNC architecture and interfaces and situational awareness model for interfacing GNC and sensory hardware and processing systems to efficiently solve the control problem unique to IWT. Combined with balanced human-autonomy collaboration (navigation, mooring, cargo handling, propulsion) and safety implications in mixed traffic ...
Novel inland waterway transport concepts for moving freight effectively (NOVIMOVE). University of Antwerp
CURRENT DIRECT – Swappable Container Waterborne Transport Battery Hasselt University
Avatar:promoting sustainable transport and removing bottlenecks in key network infrastructures KU Leuven
he massive under-exploitation of inland waterways (IWW) in the North Sea Region, especially in and around urban environments, provides opportunities for technological innovations. This project aims to deploy zero-emission automated vessels that can do hourly traffic between the Urban Consolidation Centers outside the city and inner city hubs, focusing on the distribution of palletized goods and waste return.
The average external ...
NEMOSHIP : New modular Electrical architecture and digital platforM to Optimise large battery systems on SHIPs Vrije Universiteit Brussel
providing new deployable technological solutions needed for all main types of waterborne transport to reach a “net zero emission”
by 2050.
To reach this goal, NEMOSHIP will:
- develop (i) a modular and standardised battery energy storage solution enabling to exploit heterogeneous storage units and ...