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RIVER INFORMATION SERVICES IN THE CROATIAN INLAND WATERWAY TRAFFIC SYSTEM

RIS - River Information Services represent a concept of information services covering a wide range which has been developed in the majority of European countries to support the traffic management on the inland waterways. Among other European countries, the Republic of Croatia signed in 2001 the Declaration thus accepting the obligation to develop and implement the River Information Services in the inland waterway system. The CRORIS project (Croatian River Information Services) was started in 2003 and the first RIS Centre in Croatia was opened in Vukovar in 2006. The Republic of Croatia has completely covered the Danube River waterway and the commercial waterway of the Drava River by AIS signal, and the prototype installation has been developed on the Sava river. The guidelines for the further development and implementation of the River Information Services into the Croatian inland waterway traffic system has taken into consideration the possibilities of supervision and control of the river navigation, as well as the influence of the system on the improvement in the navigation safety and on reducing the probability of accidents in the observed traffic area on inland waterways. European Commission adopted a proposal for the next Multi-Annual financial framework for the period 2014-2020: ''A Budget for Europe 2020'' that proposed the creation of a new integrated instrument for investing in EU infrastructure priorities in Transport, Energy and Telecommunications: the "Connecting Europe Facility" (CEF) whose aim is to streamline and facilitate EU support to infrastructures. Further implementation and development of the RIS into the Croatian IWT system should be at least in some parts financed or co – financed by CEF because it is a part of the one of the core multimodal corridors - 10. Strasbourg – Danube Corridor.

River Information Services (RIS); inland waterway traffic (IWT); European Union; "Connecting Europe Facility” (CEF)

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