High Speed Ferry and Coastwise Vessels: Assessment of a New York/Boston Service. (Program Element 3-17, FY01)

The overall objective of the coastal shipping program is to divert truck traffic from the main coastal highways to the water route. The diversion is expected to ease congestion and generate the related environmental benefit. The main question is whether a coastal system could be economically feasible. Related questions are whether the proposed coastal system would also be military useful and what would be its impact on the US shipbuilding industry and the development of seafaring personnel. The specific objective, of the current Phase IV research, is to assess the economic feasibility of one actual application, of the envisioned coastal system, most suitable for implementation. The application selected here is a service along the route between New York and Boston, which targets the most congested segment of I-95. This report summarizes Phase IV.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.marad.dot.gov/Publications/UNO%20study/UNO%20Study%20-%20final.pdf
• Corporate Authors:

  National Ports and Waterways Institute

  University of New Orleans
  New Orleans, LA  United States  70148

  Center for the Commercial Deployment of Transportation Technologies

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• Publication Date: 2003-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Pagination: 74p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Coastwise shipping; Congestion management systems; Economic factors; Environmental protection; Ferries; High speed craft; Shipbuilding; Shipping
• Geographic Terms: Boston (Massachusetts); New York (New York)
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Environment; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01000881
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 15 2005 12:34PM