Lectures:

1. Characteristics of traffic on inland waterways. Classification of inland waterways.
2. Design of navigable canals. Ship resistance. Optimal canal width.
3. Ship locks. Types. Sizing of the ship lock chamber. Hydraulic filling/emptying systems.
4. Hydraulics of ship locks with head filling systems.
5. Hydraulics of ship locks with manifold flow filling/emtying systems.
6. Structural characteristics and hydro-mechanical equipment of ship locks.
7. Ship lock capacity determined by a queuing systems model.
8. Navigational characteristics of natural watercourses.
9. River engineering for navigation purposes (river structures, dams, reservoirs).
10. Maintenance of inland waterways and traffic signaling systems.
11. Ports on inland waterways. Port aquatorium and port territory.
12. Calculation of port facilities by a queuing systems model.
13. Serbian and European inland waterways ports.

Practicals:

1. Navigable canal design. Calculation of ship resistance in navigable canal.
2. Ship lock design. Design of lock chamber with the head filling system.
3. Calculation of the discharge coefficient value for a head filling system.
4. Hydraulic analysis of ship lock filling, calculation of hawser forces.
5. Ship lock capacity. Drawing a ship lock.
6. Demonstration of a ship lock hydraulic model in laboratory.
7. Inland waterway port. Sizing of the port aquatorium and port territory.
8. Calculation of portal crane number and quay wall length by a queuing systems model.
9. Optimization of port facilities by a benefit-cost method.
10. Calculation of storage area and railways.
11. Field tour of the port "Danube" and the ship lock in Pančevo, near Belgrade.

Literature:

1. Jovanović, M., Inland waterwys and ports, lectures in digital form, 2011 (in Serbian).
2. Muškatirović, D., Inland waterways and ports, Faculty of Trasportation & traffic, 1993 (in Serbian). 4.
3. USACE, Layout and Design of Shallow-Draft Waterways, EM 1110-2-1611, 1980.
4. USACE, Planning and Design of Navigation Locks, EM 1110-2-2602, 1995.