Economic Impacts of Lock Usage and Unavailability
Freight statistics should provide an objective baseline for transportation policy decisions, and national economic benefits of maritime transport necessitate improving inland waterways infrastructure. Proposed work includes consolidating and learning from Lock Use, Performance, and Characteristics data collected by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and published by the navigation Data Center. The objective is to estimate statistical models of annual tons locked by commodity group and lock, as a function of lock usage and unavailability (1993-2013), to discover knowledge of relationships between system disruption and economic consequences.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Project complete
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Completed
- Funding: $112229.00
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Contract Numbers:
DTRT13-G-UTC50
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Sponsor Organizations:
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Department of Industrial Engineering
Fayetteville, AR United States 72701Research and Innovative Technology Administration
University Transportation Centers Program
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Performing Organizations:
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Department of Industrial Engineering
Fayetteville, AR United States 72701 -
Principal Investigators:
Chimka, Justin
- Start Date: 20140818
- Expected Completion Date: 20160630
- Actual Completion Date: 20160630
- Source Data: RiP Project 37072
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Canal lock operations; Commodities; Economic impacts; Freight traffic; Inland water transportation; Locks (Waterways); Systems availability
- Subject Areas: Economics; Marine Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01573281
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Maritime Transportation Research and Education Center
- Contract Numbers: DTRT13-G-UTC50
- Files: UTC, RiP
- Created Date: Aug 21 2015 1:01AM