06.03.2023

SYNERGETICS – Synergies for Green Transformation of Inland and Coastal Shipping

Inland and coastal shipping face great challenges with respect to a significant reduction of greenhouse-gas and air-pollutant emissions resulting from the requirements stipulated in the European Green Deal and the Taxonomy Regulation as well as the fact that improved environmental performance has become a feature of ever-increasing importance to the sector in order to remain competitive. SYNERGETICS is a Horizon Europe Innovation Action, a particularly application-oriented collaborative project looking at ways to reduce emissions in inland and coastal shipping through retrofit solutions.

30.09.2022

LIFE Boat 4 Sturgeon

The overall objective of this LIFE project is to help save the four remaining Danube sturgeon species from extinction: the Sterlet, the Waxdick, the Sternhausen and the Hausen.

07.06.2017

Integrated River Engineering Project on the Danube East of Vienna – Catalogue of Measures

On the free-flowing Danube east of Vienna, hydraulic engineering measures are being implemented to stabilise the falling water levels, preserve unique habitats in the Danube floodplains and align the waterway infrastructure with the requirements of safe and economic Danube navigation. In order to achieve these goals, maintenance activities are carried out on an ongoing basis and hydraulic engineering optimisation projects are implemented.

Further projects


  • started 2015

    Since the beginning of 2016 the remote maintenance of the existing measuring network is no longer possible due to changes in the provider system. A new way to transfer gauging data was established that requires changes in the measuring network and the management of necessary purchases.

  • The DoRIS Website is continuously being updated and enhanced, in order to provide the users of the waterway with accurate and updated information at any time.

  • The measuring network operated by viadonau constantly records various data and is continuously being enhanced and optimised.

  • started 2015

    The aim of this activity is the maintenance and enhancement of the hydrodynamic models for the Danube, the March and the Thaya as well as their provision to other viadonau departments and external partners.

  • In 2015 a pilot project was implemented in the river stretch east of Vienna in order to obtain information for the development of a bedload management system.

  • In the course of a two-year transfer project viadonau has undertaken and simultaneously modernised all operative tasks regarding the marking of the waterway.

  • Individual measures to ensure the functionality and safety of the locks and to improve customer-orientation regarding lock operation are continuously taken.

  • The project aims at implementing compatible transnational RIS services and systems according to unified quality standards and ensuring a maximum benefit of RIS operation through coordinated data exchange.

  • started 2015

    The project closes the technical gap between the project CoRISMa and the European implementation project RIS COMEX and prepares the Austrian DoRIS system for the operative corridor management.

  • Every other year the transport logistic, the international trade fair for logistics, mobility, IT and supply chain management, takes place in Munich. viadonau, the IGÖD partners and WienCont were represented at the transport logistic 2015, 2017 and 2019 with a joint booth.