The Role of Inland Waterway Navigation in a Sustainable Transport System

Sustainable development has become a guiding principle of human activities nowadays. Sustainable transport can take a great part in future development. Today this is not the case, and road transport contributes to this above all. For sustainable transport development the necessity of modal shift is inevitable and the inland waterway navigation should get the higher share of the total transport where there is an alternative. This presentation shows the reasons why the inland waterway navigation can increase the level of snstainability.

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• Authors:
  • Rohacs, Jozsef
  • Simongati, Gyozo
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 148-153
• Serial:
  • Transport: Research Journal of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
  • Volume: 22
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
  • ISSN: 1648-4142
  • EISSN: 1648-3480

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Evaluation and assessment; Inland water transportation; Navigation systems; Sustainable development
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01089346
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 28 2008 9:07AM