Transport of Water versus Transport over Water: Exploring the Dynamic Interplay of Transport and Water (Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series Book 58)

This book aims at stimulating discussion between researchers working on state of the art approaches for operational control and design of transport of water on the one hand and researchers working on state of the art approaches for transport over water on the other hand. The main contribution of the book as a whole is to present novel perspectives ultimately leading to the management of an envisioned unified management framework taking the recent advances from both worlds as a baseline. The book is intended to be a reference for control-oriented engineers who manage water systems with either or both purposes in mind (transport of water, transport of goods over water). It highlights the possible twofold nature of water projects, where water either acts as primary object of study or as a means. The book is dedicated to comparing and relating to one another different strategies for (operational) management and control of different but strongly related systems in the framework of the water. In that sense, the book presents different approaches treating both the transport of water and transport over water. It compares the different approaches within the same field, highlighting their distinguishing features and advantages according to selected qualitative indices, and demonstrates the interaction and cross-relations between both fields. It will also help to determine the gaps and common points for both fields towards the design of such a unifying framework, which is lacking in the literature. Additionally, the book looks at case studies where the design of modeling/control strategies of either transport of water or transport over water have been proposed, discussed or simulated. Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Perspectives on Transport of Water versus Transport over Water....Pages 1-10 Front Matter....Pages 11-11 Model Predictive Control for Combined Water Supply and Navigability/Sustainability in River Systems....Pages 13-33 Data Assimilation to Improve Models used for the Automatic Control of Rivers or Canals....Pages 35-58 Distributed LQG Control for Multiobjective Control of Water Canals....Pages 59-73 Forecasting and Predictive Control of the Dutch Canal Network....Pages 75-94 Transport of Water versus Particular Transport in Open-Channel Networks....Pages 95-110 Coordinating Model Predictive Control of Transport and Supply Water Systems....Pages 111-130 Effects of Uncertain Control in Transport of Water in a River-Wetland System of the Low Magdalena River, Colombia....Pages 131-144 Automatic Tuning of PI Controllers for Water Level Regulation of a Multi-pool Open-Channel Hydraulic System....Pages 145-167 Hierarchical MPC-Based Control of an Irrigation Canal....Pages 169-187 Front Matter....Pages 189-189 Model Predictive Control for Incorporating Transport of Water and Transport over Water in the Dry Season....Pages 191-210 Enhancing Inland Navigation by Model Predictive Control of Water Levels: The Cuinchy-Fontinettes Case....Pages 211-234 Effects of Water Flow on Energy Consumption and Travel Times of Micro-Ferries for Energy-Efficient Transport over Water....Pages 235-258 Potential Fields in Modeling Transport over Water....Pages 259-280 Safe and Efficient Port Approach by Vessel Traffic Management in Waterways....Pages 281-296 Technological Challenges and Developments in European Inland Waterway Transport....Pages 297-313 Wave Filtering and Dynamic Positioning of Marine Vessels Using a Linear Design Model: Theory and Experiments....Pages 315-343 Closed-Loop Identification and Control of Inland Vessels....Pages 345-368 Nonlinear Iterative Control of Manoeuvring Models for Transport over Water....Pages 369-388 Performance Evaluation of an Inland Pusher....Pages 389-411 Front Matter....Pages 189-189 City Logistics by Water: Good Practices and Scope for Expansion....Pages 413-437 Reactivation of the Small Inland Waterway Network....Pages 439-461 Fostering Cooperation in Inland Waterway Networks: A Gaming and Simulation Approach....Pages 463-478