RESEARCH NEEDS IN INLAND WATER TRANSPORTATION

The research needs statements which follow were developed over a two-year effort by the Transportation Research Board Committee on Inland Water Transportation. The most visible of research concerns are set forth in the following research problem statements. The major issues are: 1. The question of subjecting the water carrier to user charges: who pays, how is it computed, what is its impact on the total transportation system and national economy? 2. The placement of ports into a regional transportation planning context; casting ports in a major land use, intermodal and multimodal planning context. 3. The appropriate placement of responsibilities for inland waterway transportation management and administration systems across the several federal agencies currently involved in some manner with water transportation. 4. The continued development of improved forecasting and evaluation tools, to yield more accurate commodity flow forecasts, and to evaluate and justify capital and non-capital alternatives in light of environmental impact consequences, energy, world food supply, and transport regulatory consequences. This summary details and elaborates on the above concerns by describing specific projects, their urgency, and costs and time periods. It is the hope that such a comprehensive list, compiled from a broad array of viewpoints, will serve as a starting point for federal, state, and private research institutions to activate realistic research, resulting in an improved water and multimodal transportation resource base.

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• Publication Date: 1979-3

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: 8 p.
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Circular
  • Issue Number: 200
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0097-8515

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commodity flow; Costs; Economic analysis; Economic forecasting; Economics; Energy; Environmental impacts; Forecasting; Highway traffic control; Information systems; Inland water transportation; Inland waterways; Inland waterways traffic; Intermodal transportation; Land use; Management; Marine safety; Multimodal transportation; Port operations; Port traffic; Ports; Rail marine interface; Regional transportation; Research; Safety; Statistics; Trade; Transportation; Transportation operations; Transportation planning; Transportation policy; User charges; Water transportation; Waterways
• Uncontrolled Terms: Management systems
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Old TRIS Terms: Inland waterways economics; Inland waterways transportation; Trade forecasts; Transportation administration; Transportation research; Waterways commerce statistics
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Economics; Energy; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Terminals and Facilities; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00193669
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Apr 25 1979 12:00AM