In an expected increase of the inland navigation transport demand, the management of the navigation networks requires the design of new optimal management approaches of the water resource. This resource is necessary for the navigation accommodation. In this paper, two dynamic optimization methods are designed with the aim to improve the management of the water resource at the minimal operating cost. They aim at determining the optimal water allocation planning over a future time horizon. They are based on the proposal of a weighted directed flow graph. This flow graph is composed of dynamic capacities on each node and dynamic constraints on each edge. The proposed optimization approaches are tested and compared considering an inland navigation network composed of three reaches.
['Eric Duviella', 'Houda Nouasse', 'Arnaud Doniec', 'Karine Chuquet']
Dynamic optimization approaches for resource allocation planning in inland navigation networks