Commission Regulation (EC) No 414/2007Show full title

4.4. RIS tasks U.K.

River information services support a number of management tasks in inland shipping. These tasks are related to the objectives (Chapter 4.3) and performed in three different ‘arenas’:

• transport logistics where parties that cause the transport cooperate with parties that organise the transport (e.g. consignors, consignees, shippers, supply forwarders, freight brokers, fleet owners),

• transport where parties that organise the transport cooperate with parties that execute the transport (e.g. fleet owners, terminal operators, customers),

• traffic where parties that execute the transport (e. g. ship masters and navigators) cooperate with parties that manage the resulting vessel traffic (e.g. traffic manager, competent authorities).

The tasks are performed by different actors playing their role and being involved in transport objects and transport processes. One actor can be a stakeholder in one or more arenas at the same time. The activities of the actors are combined at transfer points and transfer processes. Figure 4.4.a gives an overview of all the relevant roles (and thus the stakeholders fulfilling these roles) responsible for traffic, transport and transport logistics in inland shipping. The tasks in Figure 4.4.a are also called communal tasks in the sense that individual tasks of the involved roles have to be tuned to each other by mutually informing each other, by negotiation or — in some cases — by passing on directions. This overview is the basis for defining RIS (Source: COMPRIS: RIS architecture, reference model).

Figure 4.4.a.

The management tasks allow deriving the following RIS in relation to the objectives, where one RIS service can fulfil one or more management tasks (Table 4.4.b):

Table 4.4.b.

Derivation of RIS

ITL = Information for transport logistics () = numbering in Table 4.5
Objectives Chapter 4.3)	Management tasks (Figure 4.4 a)		RIS (Table 4.5)
Efficiency	Transport object related	Consignment management	ITL cargo management (5.d)
		Stock management
		Transport service management	ITL outside the scope of RIS
		Terminal management	ITL terminal management (5.c)
		Fleet management	ITL cargo and fleet management (5.d)
Safety, environmental friendliness, efficiency		Infrastructure management	Fairway information service (1)
			Statistics (7)
			Waterway charges and harbour dues (8)
Efficiency	Transport process related	Supply chain management Transport chain management	ITL cargo and fleet management (5.d)
			ITL transport management (5.b)
			ITL inter-modal port and terminal management (5.c)
			ITL voyage planning (5.a)
Safety, efficiency	Traffic process related	Traffic management	Traffic information (2)
			Traffic management (3)
Safety, environmental friendliness, efficiency	All objects and processes	Incident management and calamity abatement	Calamity abatement support (4)
		Law enforcement	Information for law enforcement (6)

The tasks in all RIS arenas are performed by the actors in cycles as shown in Figures 4.4.c and d. Moreover, the tasks may take place on an operational, tactical or strategic level (good examples are the tactical and strategic traffic information levels, defined in Chapter 2.11). This concept allows to draw for each individual task an information processing loop including the actions of the different actors. Every step in the information processing loop can be supported by river information services, which help the actor in his observations, evaluations, decisions, and actions. The information processing loop can be used to define the river information services (Chapter 4.5) and RIS functions (Chapter 4.6). An example for an information processing loop is given in Appendix A (COMPRIS: RIS architecture, information architecture).