The Inland waterways are waterway that need to consider the effect of environment such as wind and hydrodynamic impact. That has been well-developed in Europe.
Recently, The Korea is paying attention to use of Inland waterway such as Gyungin waterway and Four major river development project too.
But the Korea which has no experience with designing Inland waterway has problem about construction of Inland waterway such as Gyungin waterway due to not having design criteria.
So, the object of this study is to suggest method of establishing method of design criteria of Inland waterways considering ship's safety of navigators.
This study was drawn through the comparison and analysis of the existing guidelines of the USACE, Japan, PIANC, Canada, NAVFAC and Gyungin waterway simulation data. The simulation experiment was carried out using the "Full Mission Bridge Simulator" to find out optimal design criteria of Inland waterways and navigator's opinion.
New guidelines considering the Korean condition, the result of the study, is expected to help safety navigation and cost-reduction.