Introduction
Port of Rotterdam, ProRail and Rijkswaterstaat work together under the name NGinfra (Next Generation Infrastructures). She share and create knowledge, expertise, scientific research, views, practices and opinions with each other and think as one infrastructure company. All this with the goal of achieving optimal infrastructure at realize in order to form the basis for the best possible economy and quality of life within the Netherlands.
Customer
Rijkswaterstaat
Tools/Techniques
Congestion model, LSTM, AIS data
Services
Data Science & AI
Industry
Transport
The goal-driven data solution
Together with NGinfra partners, we investigated whether the bridge operation of the Botlek and Spijkenisse Bridge can be optimized by data. In doing so, we hope to minimize the impact of bridge openings for all modes of transport: Shipping, freight trains and road traffic.
Our first Proof of Concept(Poc) showed that this is possible and also positive for Co2 emissions. We have shown that we can simulate the impact of a bridge opening on congestion. Our model shows that an average bridge opening during the evening rush hour results in more than 100 VVU and more than 1 ton of CO2 emissions due to congestion. If the bridge openings during the evening rush hour in the month of June were moved to outside the rush hour, this would save about 4500 VVU and 24 tons of C02 emissions.
In the long term, we want to develop an integrated-traffic-management system to support the bridge operator. Based on this data, an optimal bridge opening time is displayed, minimizing the overall impact caused by the bridge opening.
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