BASIC PROJECT DATA
Project ID: PA1A079
NEED AND ADDED VALUE FOR THE DANUBE REGION STRATEGY
Improved knowledge with respect to projected climate change effects on inland waterway transport in the Danube region including the requested adaptation measures.
OBJECTIVE(S) OF THE PROJECT
The objective of this project was to gather the expertise of partners from different fields related to meteorology, hydrology, infrastructure operation, transport and economics in order to assess the effects of climate change on the transport network, taking the inland waterway network as a case study.
The project was based on the consolidation and analysis of earlier and existing research work as well as the application of existing climate change and hydrological assessment tools for complementary evaluation of climate change effects on the inland waterway transport (IWT) network. The development of new models was excluded from the study.
Final results contain projections of transport costs and flows on the inland waterway network for different climate change scenarios up to 2050 and analyses of the possible economic effects of these different scenarios as well as cost-benefit assessments of possible adaptation strategies. The project provided essential information for decision makers and guidelines for future research on climate change and IWT.
CONDUCTED PROJECT ACTIVITIES
- Impact of climate change on hydrological conditions of navigation: consolidation of results and final reporting as well as estimation of nautical conditions for the Danube as input to economic evaluations.
- Involvement in economic, environmental and technical evaluation of transport solutions for the Danube.
- Evaluation of adaptation strategies (hydrological works) including costs based on performed and planned hydrological works.
- Elaboration on policy recommendations.
- Dissemination of results: co-organisation of final conference, consolidation of project results as input to the EU project PLATINA as well as dissemination of results to Waterborne TP and EIRAC; cooperation with the EWENT project.
TRANSBOUNDARY IMPACT
The project addressed all European countries with inland waterway transport.
PROJECT BENEFICIARIES / TARGET GROUPS
- Waterway management authorities
- Political decision-makers
- Inland navigation industry
STATUS AND TIMEFRAME
Start date: 01.10.2010
End date: 31.12.2012
The project is already concluded.
FINANCING
Total budget: 2,260,345 EUR
EU funds: 1,633,087 EUR were funded by FP7- Seventh Frameworkprogramme for Research and Technological Development “TRANSPORT” 2007 – 2013 (Research area: SST.2008.1.3.1. Effects of climate change on inland waterway and transport networks)
National funds: 627,258 EUR
PROJECT TEAM
Project leader: TML – Transport and Mobility Leuven / Belgium
(website: www.tmleuven.be)
Address: Diestsesteenweg 57, 3010 Leuven (Kessel-Lo) / Belgium
Contact person: Christophe Heyndrickx
Contact data: ; +32 16 74 51 21
Project partner(s):
- via donau – Österreichische Wasserstraßen-Gesellschaft mbH / Austria
- VU Amsterdam / The Netherlands
- NEA – Transport Research and Training / The Netherlands
- FUCaM – Facultés Universitaires Catholiques de Mons / France
- BfG – Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde / Germany
- VITUKI – Environmental Protection and Water Management Research Institute Non-profit Company / Hungary
- OMSZ – Országos Meteorológiai Szolgálat / Hungary
- DST – Entwicklungszentrum für Schiffstechnik und Transportsysteme e.V. / Germany
- KNMI – Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut / The Netherlands
PROJECT ENVIRONMENT
PROJECT CROSS – REFERENCE
EWENT – Extreme weather impacts on European networks of transport (PA1A080)
EUSDR EMBEDDING
EUSDR COMPLIANCE
META DATA
Data provided by: Juha Schweighofer (via donau – Österreichische Wasserstraßen-Gesellschaft mbH, Austria) – 02.03.2012
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