PLOTO: Improved IWW Resilience Using Predictive Modelling, Environmentally Sustainable and Emerging Digital Technologies and Tools

Abstract More than 37,000 km of waterways connect hundreds of cities and industrial regions in Europe. These inland waterways play an important role in the transport of goods. The EU-funded PLOTO project aims at studying the resilience of the infrastructure of inland waterways and that of the connected land infrastructure. The main objective of the project is to ensure reliable network availability under unfavourable conditions (e.g. extreme weather, accidents, as well as other kind of hazards). PLOTO utilises high-resolution modelling data to assess climatic risk and focuses on the design of an innovative planning tool that can run ‘what if’ impact/risk/resilience assessment scenarios.