D2.1 Definition of the Requirements, Use Cases and System Specifications 1st version

PLOTO project aims at increasing the resilience of the Inland WaterWays (IWW) infrastructures and the connected hinterland- infrastructures, thus ensuring reliable network availability under unfavourable conditions, such as extreme weather, accidents and other kind of hazards. PLOTO’s main target is to combine downscaled climate change scenarios (applied to IWW infrastructures) with simulation tools and actual data, so as to provide the relevant authorities and their operators with an integrated tool able to support more effective management of their infrastructures at strategic and operational levels. The PLOTO integrated platform and its tools will be validated in three case studies in Belgium, Romania, and Hungary.The aim of this report is to: (a) present a literature review on issues related to technical, regulatory and financial aspects that shall be considered for the development of the PLOTO integrated system (Τ2.1); (b) identify the end- user needs (T2.1); (c) produce a detailed specification of PLOTO end-user requirements (T2.2); (d) describe the PLOTO platform’s modules and; (e) provide initial information of the use cases that will be used for their definition (in deliverable D2.2 “Definition of the Requirements, Use Cases and System Specifications final version”).