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Traffic management of river day-trip vessels in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Sixty-third session of the Working Party on Inland Water Transport (SC.3).
Geneva, 6-8 November 2019
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In the summer period thousands of tourists coming to Saint Petersburgtake a boat trip on small rivers and canals located within the city limits.Traffic of river day-trip vessels on these waterways is, therefore, verydense and often limited with a one-way traffic mode on many sections
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Similar river cruises are also very popular in Amsterdam, Paris, Strasbourg, Bruges etc.
Amsterdam
Paris
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The main routes of river cruises arein the central historical part of the city
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In the daytime, up to 90 river day-trip vessels can sail simultaneously in the city center
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Once a summer evening in Saint Petersburg…
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Small day-trip vessels are especially dangerous at nighttime during the passage of large vessels through the drawbridges on the main fairway of Neva river
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Hundreds of tourists are watching at night bridge openings from small vessels
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40 minutes before start of the upstream night traffic of large vessels...
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10 minutes before start of the upstream night traffic of large vessels…..
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The upstream traffic starts. It seems, the fairway is clear, but …..
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The small vessel «Aldemarin» dangerously crosses track of «Valeryi Eliseev»
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The small vessel «Siesta» dangerously crosses track of «Omskiy-132»
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How to control this chaotic traffic of small river tourist vessels ???
Inland Waterway Administration
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A vessel, subject to the requirements of tRussianRiver Register, must be equipped with stationaryUHF-radio and AIS transponder
An undersized vessel, not subject to therequirements of the Russian River Register,must be equipped only with handheldUHF-radio
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Many questions have to be putMany problems need to be solved
• Are there any special legal acts regulating navigation of river day-tripvessels on rivers and canals in urban areas ?
• Is there a special authority responsible for organizing and managingtraffic of river day-trip vessels and safety of navigation on smaller riversand canals in urban areas ?
• Is there a special authority responsible for the maintenance of thefairway, AtoNs, mooring equipment, navigation signs and signals,semaphores, boards that allow, restrict or prohibit navigation?
• Are there any limitations for the traffic density on smaller rivers andcanals in urban areas (maximum number of vessels on the samewaterway section)?
• How operators are informed about the under-bridge clearance on smallerrivers and canals?
• Is there a dedicated radio communication channel for river day-tripvessels?
• Is there an obligation to report via VHF radio on the start and end of thevoyage? If "YES", whom this message should be transmitted to ?
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Thank you for your kind attention !
Evgeny BrodskiyTelecom Dept. of the Volga-Baltic WaterwaySaint-Petersburg, Russian Federation