Freight Optimization and Development in Missouri: Ports and Waterways Module

Missouri’s ports and waterways have proven to be important to the region’s economic growth and significant to the state’s role in transporting waterborne freight. The ultimate objectives of this analysis are to provide an inventory of Missouri’s public and private port operations and public port needs; discuss baseline commodity flow data for Missouri’s waterways; explore regional, national and global trends that Missouri may capture to increase the state’s role in freight movements; develop strategies that the state could adopt to accelerate or facilitate freight and logistics development in the state; and create a Waterways Prioritization Process that will assist the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) in making justifiable investment decisions that meet the needs of not only Missouri’s ports, but the state itself. Missouri’s centralized location and access to multimodal connections places the state in a prime position to strengthen its role as a national freight center. With opportunities such as the expanding container-on-barge and biofuel industries, in addition to other trends discussed in the analysis, Missouri’s ports have the ability to promote trade and growth on its waterways.

• Record URL:
  • http://utc.mst.edu/documents/R210_CR.pdf
• Record URL:
  • https://spexternal.modot.mo.gov/sites/cm/CORDT/or08013.pdf
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• Summary URL:
  • https://spexternal.modot.mo.gov/sites/cm/CORDT/or08013_Sum.pdf
• Record URL:
  • https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/16362
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This research was funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla

  Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studies
  Rolla, MO  United States  65409

  Research and Special Programs Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  TranSystems Corporation

  1001 Craig Road, Suite 260
  St Louis, MO  United States  63146
• Authors:
  • Grasman, Scott E
• Publication Date: 2008-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: 14p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Economic development; Economic growth; Inland water transportation; Port operations; Ports; Shipping; Water transportation; Waterway facility operations; Waterways
• Geographic Terms: Missouri
• Subject Areas: Economics; Marine Transportation; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01091434
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: NUTC R210, 00018843
• Contract Numbers: DTRT06-G-0014
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 23 2008 9:24AM