PLOTO project landed in Dubai for the 30th ITS World Congress! Organised by ERTICO, PLOTO was invited to participated in this flagship international event gathering experts in ITS technologies and...
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PLOTO Technical Manager Receives “Most-Cited” Paper Honour
We are thrilled to announce a remarkable achievement by D. Vamvatsikos, the Technical Manager of the PLOTO project from NTUA. Vamvatsikos has been awarded the prestigious "most-cited" paper for the...
PLOTO Team Celebrates Colleague’s ASCE State-of-the-Art Award Civil Engineering Triumph
We are delighted to announce that Vasilis Melissianos, a valued colleague from SoReCC and a key member of the PLOTO project, has been awarded the 2024 ASCE State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering...
PLOTO at TRA2024
The Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2024, held in Dublin, Ireland from April 15 to April 18, emerged as a pivotal moment for the transportation and mobility sector. Among the array of projects and...
ER12: Software for assessing socioeconomic impact
PLOTO aims to improve the resilience of Inland WaterWays (IWW) and associated hinterland infrastructure against weather hazard, climate change effects, flooding, and seismic hazard. Part of the work...
ER11: Risk assessment engine
Everyone has a different interpretation of risk. In business, risks are understood as threats to the operation and profitability of an organization. The assessment of risk then becomes a process of...
PLOTO M18 Plenary meeting
On 7-8 February, PLOTO partners met in Athens, hosted by the partner NTUA, to discuss the work done in the first 18 months of this EU funded initiative. In light of the upcoming project's mid-term...
ER10: PLOTO Integrated Platform for Inland Waterways Resilience
The main outcome of the PLOTO project will be the integrated PLOTO platform. All tools, services and solutions (be it existing or emerging) that are considered in the context of PLOTO, will be...
ER 9 – Fore-Now/Casting Weather Predictions tool
It is a common practice among scientists to employ ground-based monitoring in order to gain information regarding meteorological and climate aspects and the related exposure risks, as this is...
ER 8 – Coupled Multi-nested Local Scale Modelling
The diverse risk assessment framework, developed in PLOTO to support Inland WaterWay (IWW) operations, will exhibit the ability to quantify weather-related hazards among others. As weather-related...
European Waterways Explored: Collaborative Surveys Yield Data Along Albert Canal and Freeport of Budapest
In a joint effort, experts from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Université de Liège (ULiège), and MAV Hungarian State Railways Co. (MAV) have successfully conducted extensive...
PLOTO at DISC’ 2023
PLOTO's partner, the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), actively took part in the DISC' 2023 event held in Budapest on the 5th and 6th of December. The event, organised by two other...
Danube Ports Days 2023: A Convergence of Innovation and Expertise in Waterway Transport
The Danube Ports Days event has firmly established itself as a pivotal gathering on the calendar of the Inland Waterway Transport (IWT) community within the Danube Region and beyond. This...
Transforming Europe’s Inland Waterways: A Vision for Sustainable Transport and Resilience
In the European Union, a vast network of approximately 41,000 kilometres of inland waterways winds through 25 Member States. This intricate crisscross of water routes is a lifeline for many and is...
ULiège at symposium “Pumps and turbines, challenges for management and design in Flanders”
On November 21, 2023, Joris Hardy from ULiège participated in the Symposium “Pumps and turbines, challenges for management and design in Flanders" organised at the Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory...
ER 7 – Middleware and Data Fusion Services
In the PLOTO project, RISA Sicherheitanalysen GmbH is responsible (among others) for developing the project’s Middleware and Data Fusion (DF) services. PLOTO’s middleware is a software that enables...
ITS Congress 2024: Call for Contributions are open!
The European Programme Committee invites you to submit papers and proposals that encompass four key topics on ITS and Smart Mobility for consideration at the 30th ITS World Congress in Dubai. You...
PLOTO showcased at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics
PLOTO project was showcased during a lecture at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). BME is one of the partners of the project and it is involved with the activities in the...
ER 6: PLOTO’s Interoperable Platform for Inland Waterways
The PLOTO project considers developing a sophisticated information management framework, wherein the IWAT is an essential assessment module. This module is seamlessly interconnected via advanced...
ER5: Multi-Hazard Vulnerability Modules and Assessment Toolkit for IWW
One of the main goals of PLOTO is assessing vulnerability and improving resilience of Inland WaterWays (IWW) and hinterland infrastructure under weather, flood, and seismic hazards. To do so...
NTUA showcased PLOTO at SECED 2023
PLOTO partners, Christos Lachanas and Professor Dimitrios Vamvatikos from NTUA - National Technical University of Athens - attended the SECED 2023 conference held in Cambridge on 14-15 September....
PLOTO partners under the spotlight: RSOE
The National Association of Radio Distress-Signalling and Info communications (RSOE) is the last PLOTO partner to present that collaborates with the Freeport of Budapest Logistics Ltd (BSZL), the...
ER4: IWW Simulators with climate scenarios and new data emanating from the project outcomes
Whenever you are planning the hows and whats of risk assessment, one of the first questions that pops up is the one of time scale. Are we doing this for (relaxed!) strategic planning of the next 10...
PLOTO partners under the spotlight: AFDJ
Together with UDG and RRT, the Galati Lower Danube River Administration, A.A. (AFDJ) supports the work of PLOTO partners in the Romanian pilot site. What prompted your organisation to join the PLOTO...