Reporting how research is contributing to inland waterway policy

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For transport in the European Union (EU) the main potential barriers to sustainable socio-economic development are traffic congestion, environmental impacts, and economic costs. With accession, future enlargement and economic growth the stage is set for such problems to increase. But what can be done?

European researchers have engaged in a raft of pioneering projects that bring the latest developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to support traffic and transport management in inland navigation, including interfaces to other modes of transport.

Providing such support through harmonised ICT-based information services is called RIS and is explained, along with the political context, in the latest brochure ‘River Information Services: As policy implementation flows from research’, published by the EXTR@Web project.

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