Task Description

Task name :

Develop guidance on Digital Waterway
Leading committee and working group owning the task: DTEC WG 2
Tasks associated (*leading) : ARM - 7.1.1 - Develop guidance on Digital Fairway
Tags: Work programme 2025-2027, Work programme 2023-2027
Task Leader : Kaisu Heikonen
Task Number : DTEC-7.1.2
Standards : S1070 Information Services
Topic area : S1070.1 Data models and data encoding
Task Description :

Develop guidance for IALA members on the digitalization of waterways.
Objectives of the task :

To provide guidance on the development and implementation for digitalisation of waterways.

The development will:

  • Define what is meant by digitalisation of waterways
  • Provide guidance on identifying digital maturity of waterways
  • Review guidance on the use of simulation as a tool in waterway design and AtoN planning (IALA G1058 (and G1097, noting this has been superseded by G1058 Ed 3.0));
  • Identify best practice in development and use of digital twins;
  • Provide guidance on the use of digital twins for fairways / aids to navigation provision;
  • Identify uses of digital twins for planning, monitoring and maintenance
  • Identify options to share information on the fairway infrastructure and services in a digital format with users
  • Link with, for example, IMT-2030 and beyond for data exchange, AI/ML, S100,

Identify opportunities to enhance sustainability through the use of technology / digital twins for fairways and AtoNs.

Expected outcome :

New IALA guideline on developments of digitalisation of waterways.
Compelling need :
Strategic Alignment :
Scope :
Cybersecurity related :

No
Brief and concise description of the work : to be undertaken and programme mile-stones (where appropriate).
Expected numbers of sessions for completion :
Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Session 5 Session 6 Session 7
+ + + + v v v

Meaning of symbols for sessions :

v + x > <
Scheduled Progressed Not progressed Finalised On hold
Committee notes : Origins :
Approved by Council (Council session/Date) : 0
Notes from the council :
Status (Text) : On track
Status (Colour) :
On track
Remarks :

History of the task :

2025-03-18 14:37:05 alisa.nechyporuk

2025-03-26 12:00:59 DTECTGL1

2025-03-26 12:19:31 DTECTGL1

2025-03-26 12:21:37 DTECTGL1

2025-03-26 12:24:00 DTECTGL1

2025-03-26 12:25:00 DTECTGL1

2025-05-04 19:01:05 alisa.nechyporuk

2025-09-08 15:06:01 alisa.nechyporuk

2025-09-26 09:28:23 DTECTGL1

2025-09-26 09:29:27 DTECTGL1

2025-10-07 12:48:15 DTECTGL1

Session 5: Draft was sent to other committees for second and last round of comments. Drafting will continue intersessionally and two intersessional online meetings have been scheduled (6th Nov 2025 and 5th Feb 2026, both at 9-10:30 UTC).

Download DTEC5-15.3.7.1 Draft Guideline on Digitalization of waterways.docx