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The NOVIMOVE Serious Game has recently been thoroughly tested. The purpose of this game is to implement potential innovations, as researched by the NOVIMOVE team, in a virtual reality environment and to assess their potential impact. These innovations include new vessel designs for low water conditions, a mobile modular terminal and intelligent systems for lock planning and route optimisation. Two versions are being developed: one for students, which will lower the threshold for learning about port and 🚢ogistics operations for those students who are not necessarily involved in these specific[…]

A NOVIMOVE – smart & sustainable waterways delegation consisting of Edwin van Hassel, University of Antwerp, Cyril Alias from DST – Development Centre for Ship Technology and Transport Systems and Erwin van der Linden from Expertise- en InnovatieCentrum Binnenvaart had the honour of attending the Containertrends 2023 edition organised by Flows in Ekeren, Antwerp in October 2023. Prof. dr. ir. Edwin van Hassel took part in a panel discussion on the important topic of #congestion. Lack of time is the real challenge now, he said. We have to decide on[…]

Erwin van der Linden took the camera and brought a visit to Bengt Ramne, managing director of Scandinaos in Gothenburg. Bengt Ramne is the fouding father of the Mobile Modular Terminal concep, one of the key NOVIMOVE innovations. Enjoy watching the video to get a better understanding of origin and principles behind this original idea to counter congestion problems in sea ports.

A look back at two very successful #WaterborneDays in Brussels in September 2023, organised by WaterborneTP, Burson Cohn & Wolfe and the WATERBORNE TRANSPORT lasting INNOVATION-project. Many opportunities were offered to get the latest information on developing maritime policies and related funding schemes. Valuable first-hand insights from European policy makers were shared with the audience, which consisted partly of an active group of IWT delegates, including from the NOVIMOVE – smart & sustainable waterways project. Interesting networking opportunities with industry partners and relevant associations were provided, with panel discussions clearly[…]

The water levels on the major rivers are becoming increasingly unpredictable. Climate change reduces the stability of the supply of meltwater from the mountains. In combination with long periods of drought and hotter summers, this will increasingly lead to extremely low water levels in the future. In March 2023, TU Delft’s Cornell Thill has been interviewed by the ‘Schuttevaer’ newspaper. You can read the article online by following this link.

A explanatory animation has been created to introduce the upcoming NOVIMOVE Serious Game. Due date for release of the game is autumn 2023. The game is currently being finalized under direction of the University of Antwerp team. Teasers are looking promising! You can already pre-register for the game on www.novimove.eu/game.  

Watch this video about the NOVIMOVE team during the Smart Shipping Event in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht 2022 session.

The NOVIMOVE – smart & sustainable waterways team members Rudy Negenborn, Edwin van Hassel and Louis-Robert Cool together with Michel van Dijk had an interesting panel discussion during the Smart Shipping Event 2022 in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht. The important topic of the link between Smart Shipping and Smart Logistics was discussed in an active exchange of thoughts between experts and the audience. Getting to know each other’s points of view is important since this is a prerequisite condition for further uptake of logistical innovations, including the physical and digital innovations that the[…]

Watch science in action with this event movie shot during the Transport Research Arena in Lisbon!

Looking back at a very successful appearance of the NOVIMOVE – smart & sustainable waterways team during the #TRA2022 in Lisbon! Thanks to Benjamin Friedhoff, Cyril Alias and Peter Shobayo for their fruitful dissemination efforts, sharing some important midterm milestones of the project with many logistical expert stakeholders who gathered from all around Europe in the beautiful Portuguese capital.  

Beginning of June, members of the NOVIMOVE work package on new vessel designs met in-person and took the opportunity to analyse the vessel configuration used for the model scale tests earlier this year. Click pictures to enlarge.

For the dissemination of academic publications within the NOVIMOVE context, a dedicated community on Zenodo has been created. Zenodo is a general-purpose, open-access repository developed under the European OpenAIRE program and operated by CERN. It allows researchers to deposit research papers, data sets, research software, reports, and any other research related digital artefacts. Moreover, it integrates them into existing reporting lines to funding agencies like the European Commission and thus communicates with the EC Portal. The NOVIMOVE community on Zenodo enables our team to curate, export en upload relevant academic[…]

The NOVIMOVE project was present at the Maritime Industry Fair in Gorinchem. This fair is considered to be the largest IWT related fair in the Netherlands. After two years of COVID-restrictions, it has been a good opportunity to meet people in real life, raising their awareness on the variety of topics NOVIMOVE is dealing with. In November, the European TRA conference and fair in Portugal will be on the NOVIMOVE communication agenda. To be continued!

On Thursday afternoon the 2nd of June, our team will be organizing the midterm conference at the Wyndham Hotel in Duisburg, starting with a 12.00h lunch. Here you can physically meet the project team members and discuss with us our achievements so far. A great occassion to engage with stakeholders! An update of the programme will be released in due time. You can expect us to brief you on exciting new vessel designs, mobile port terminal, cargo reconstructioning, smart naviagtion systems, dynamic lock planning and new transport models: innovative ideas[…]

In this newsletter you will read more on the Smart Navigation System and the Dynamic Planning for the operation of bridges and locks, featuring Ali MOhamoud (TNO), Paul Rysiavets (CoVadem) and Rienk Bijlsma (System Navigator). Enjoy the read!

On the 8th of March a Horizon project coordinators meeting took place. Based on crosslinks identified by the NOVIMOVE team, this initiative aimed to strengthen the ties with collegue project teams within the field of waterborne innovation. The following projects took part in the online meeting: PLATINA3, Lasting, IW-NET, AEGIS, BOOSTLOG and AUTOSHIP. As a follow-up to this meeting a database has been drafted, containing contact information, envisaged project outcomes, geographical scope and practical (dissemination) opportunitites for further cooperation. The Horizon Projects meeting will convene again later this year. Interested[…]

The NOVIMOVE consortium welcomes new research members recently added to the team. From Imed-ID Lab Miha Sajko will develop a short-term voyage plan predictor component and scheduling algorithms for optimizing schedules of locks and bridges. TU Delft’s Ph.D. student Adrien Nicolet will support the development of logistics models. Postdoc researcher Pablo Segovia Castillo will be involved in the work package dealing with high-level architecture design for smart river navigation systems. Additionally, the staff will be further supported by Yusong Pang (quality assurance manager), Sjoerd van Kesteren (IPR Manager), and Peter[…]

Meet some of the leaders of the NOVIMOVE-project in the first video update! Hear them explaining the goals of this HORIZON2020 EU funded innovation project, aiming to improve inland waterways logistics on the Rhine-Alpine corridor significantly. This video features project coordinator prof. dr. R.R. Negenborn as well as work package leaders Joanna Wieczerzynska-Van Baarle (TU Delft), Ali Mohamoud (TNO) and Edwin van Hassel (University of Antwerp).

Below in the pdf file reader you’ll find the very first issue of NOVIMOVE NEWS that has been released recently, featuring professor Rudy Negenborn explaining the project ambitions and objectives. Enjoy the read!

On Friday 19th of June the official kick-off of the project NOVIMOVE took place. More than 70 people from 21 partner organisations gathered online in a General Assembly to discuss first steps to be taken in this 4 years research project which is funded by the H2020 program of the European Union. NOVIMOVE stands for Novel Inland Waterways transport concepts for moving freight effectively. At this occasion work packages leaders took the online stage to set the challenge, describing ways in which their part of the NOVIMOVE-plan can make the[…]