2008-EU-70000-S 

Implementation of River Information Services in Europe - IRIS Europe II

Since 2002, the establishment of intelligent infrastructure on European rivers has been part of the TEN-T programme. A new dimension of coordination and cooperation was launched in 2006 with IRIS Europe - Implementation of River Information Services in Europe, the first multinational TEN-T project of its kind, improving and piloting River Information Services (RIS) until December 2008. This work now continues in the follow-up pilot project IRIS Europe II.

The multi-beneficiary IRIS Europe II project focuses on further enhancement and fine-tuning of RIS key technologies, services and applications. It focuses on four main thematic areas:

• Fairway Information Services (FIS)
• Traffic and transport-related RIS services
• Technical and Administrative Agreement (TAA) for international data exchange
• Quality of Information Services (QoIS) for RIS

It aims to significantly contribute to a harmonised RIS implementation at European level.

State of progress on 31 December 2010:

Significant progress has been made in the 4 activities leading to the development of enhanced River Information Services and the project is progressing according to plan.

See our TEN-T project implementation successes section for more information.

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Member States involved:

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, The Netherlands, Romania, Slovak Republic

Implementation schedule:

Start date: January 2009

End date: December 2011

Beneficiaries:

 Ministries of Transport of Austria, Belgium, Slovak Republic, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, The Netherlands, France, Bulgaria

Coordinator:

 via donau - Österreichische Wasserstrassen-Gesellschaft mbH

Additional information:

 European Commission, DG TREN