Integrating MTS commerce data with multimodal freight transportation performance measures to support MTS maintenance investment decision making / C. James Kruse, Center for Ports and Waterways, Texas A&M Transportation Institute [and five others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kruse, C. James, author.

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board, issuing body.

National Cooperative Freight Research Program, sponsoring body.

United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, sponsoring body.

Series:

NCFRP report ; 32.

NCFRP report

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inland navigation--United States--Planning.

Inland navigation.

Harbors--United States--Maintenance and repair--Planning.

Harbors.

Dredging--United States--Planning.

Dredging.

Planning.

United States.

Genre:

Technical reports.

Physical Description:

75 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.

Other Title:

Integrating Marine Transportation System commerce data with multimodal freight transportation performance measures to support Marine Transportation System maintenance investment decision making

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Transportation Research Board, 2014.

Summary:

"TRB's National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Report 32: Integrating MTS Commerce Data with Multimodal Freight Transportation Performance Measures to Support MTS Maintenance Investment Decision Making investigates the feasibility of evaluating potential navigation operation and maintenance projects on the Marine Transportation System (MTS) as they relate to both waterborne commerce and landside freight connections."--Publisher description.

Contents:

Summary

section 1. Background

section 2. Selection and characterization of high-volume freight MTS corridors in the United States

section 3. Proposed metrics and operations research methods

section 4. Findings from the case studies

section 5. Potential future research

appendix A. Commodity codes

appendix B. FAF3 regions

appendix C. Origin-destination corridors and modal assignment at selected ports

appendix D. Lock capacity calculation

appendix E. Analysis of constraints

appendix F. Model results

References

List of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms.

Notes:

At head of title: National Cooperative Freight Research Program.

Includes bibliographical references (page 74).

ISBN:

9780309308151

0309308151

OCLC:

897474159