Budapest - Hungary

It addresses passenger vessel traffic on the Danube and its interaction with urban transport systems, with the aim of improving safety, efficiency, and cross-modal coordination. The pilot uses inland AIS data from the Budapest section of the Danube to enable real-time visualisation of vessel trajectories, accurate departure and arrival times, pier information, and detection of deviations from planned schedules, supporting improved situational awareness during periods of high seasonal traffic.

The pilot also investigates collision avoidance and traffic safety applications by integrating AIS data and ship motion models into inland electronic navigation chart viewers. Multimodal simulations combine vessel movement models with road-based microsimulation to support just-in-time coordination between sightseeing boats and tourist buses and to enable multimodal journey planning using vessel estimated times of arrival. Collaborative traffic management is supported through IoT-based interfaces, providing a shared web application for stakeholders in passenger shipping, tourism, and urban transport, with around 50 users involved in the demonstration. Within FEDORA, the Budapest pilot integrates waterborne and land transport simulation, complex event processing, response planning, and journey planning solutions to demonstrate cross-modal network management in an operational urban environment.