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ROLE OF DANUBE INLAND NAVIGATION IN EUROPE
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Vladislav Maraš - University of Belgrade, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering, Vojvode Stepe 305, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia -
Abstract
The inland waterway cargo transport in Europe is very competitive in relation to other, surface types of transport. Compositions of pushed barges can generate more ton-kilometers per distance unit than any other type of surface transport. Only pipeline transportation is more cost-effective than inland navigation, but it also has certain disadvantages like volume of investment, capability of only one type of liquid cargo (mostly crude oil), need for the flow to be always constant and to correspond to the full nominal capacity and travel conditions that reduce its flexibility. The development of this type of traffic in Europe was not satisfactory since its share according to traffic modal split was decreasing in the course of the last decades as a result of very rapid development of road transportation. Circulation volume in tons on inland waterways is significantly changing in very wide range from one European country to the other. It is, for example, very high in the Rhine region, while on the Danube it is app. 10 % of the possible throughput capacity of this navigable way. This paper deals with advantages and disadvantages of inland navigation, as well as, some specific characteristics of inland waterway cargo transport on main inland waterways in Europe.
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Keywords:
inland navigation in Europe;
inland shipping;
specific characteristics of inland waterway cargo transport.;
Acknowledgements:
This paper is based on the project TR36027: “Software development and national database for strategic management and development of transportation means and infrastructure in road, rail, air and inland waterways transport using the European transport network models†which is supported by the Ministry of science and technological development of Republic of Serbia (2011-2014).
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