February 2025 marks 30 months of PLOTO, and before this significant milestone, the project consortium gathered for a plenary meeting in Liège, Belgium on 29-30 January 2025. The project is well on...
PLOTO Plenary Meeting in Liège
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PLOTO endorses the EU Mission: Restore our Ocean and Waters Charter
PLOTO endorses the EU Mission: Restore our Ocean and Waters Charter
Ploto at ISPRS Technical Commission III Mid-term Symposium on Remote Sensing: Beyond the canopy – Technologies and Applications of Remote Sensing
PLOTO research was presented at the ISPRS - International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Technical Commission III Mid-term Symposium on Remote Sensing in Belém, Brazil in November...
PLOTO is featured on EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA!
We are happy to share another publication from PLOTO research! Hazard, exposure, fragility, and damage state homogenization of a virtual oil refinery testbed for seismic risk assessment was...
PLOTO is featured on INVENTIONS!
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new paper resulting from PLOTO research! The paper, titled The Expected Dynamics for the Extreme Wind and Wave Conditions at the Mouths of the Danube...
ITS Congress 2025: Call for Contributions is open!
The ITS European Congress is Europe’s premier event for ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) and Smart Mobility. For over two decades, the Congress has been offering experts an unparalleled...
ER13: Digital Twin
Introduction PLOTO seeks to enhance the resilience of Inland Waterways (IWW) and their connected hinterland infrastructure against weather-related hazards, the impacts of climate change, flooding,...
PLOTO featured in Dubai
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...
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...