Texas Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Master Plan: Technical Report

Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) may want to expand its role in the maintenance of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in Texas (GIWW-T) and/or associated assets. This report looks at what is needed to restore and sustain the GIWW-T to its optimum level, and how TxDOT might be able to play a more active role in the realization of this goal. It describes needs, costs, obstacles to TxDOT taking a more active role, shortfall in federal funding, potential funding sources to fill the gap, and performance metrics to enable TxDOT to measure, monitor, and manage the condition and utility of the GIWW-T. This research establishes a baseline for the condition and utilization of the GIWW-T. Although the authorized dimensions of the GIWW-T are 12 ft deep and 125 ft wide, there are many portions of the channel that are not being maintained to those dimensions, primarily because of a lack of funding. This research looks at: (1) What is needed to restore and sustain the GIWW-T to its optimum level; (2) What the major operational concerns, the impacts of a lack of dredging and operational obstacles are; and (3) How TxDOT might be able to play a more active role in achieving the goal of a highly efficient and safe GIWW-T.

• Record URL:
  http://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-info/tpp/giww/technical-report-0814.pdf
• Record URL:
  http://tti.tamu.edu/documents/0-6807-1-booklet.pdf
• Record URL:
  http://tti.tamu.edu/documents/0-6807-1.pdf
• Record URL:
  https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/59000/59100/59185/0-6807-S.pdf
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• Summary URL:
  http://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-info/tpp/giww/master-plan-0614.pdf
• Summary URL:
  https://library.ctr.utexas.edu/Presto/search/SearchResults_ClearCriteria.aspx?q=(catalog.ID=(33750))
• Summary URL:
  https://library.ctr.utexas.edu/Presto/search/SearchResults_ClearCriteria.aspx?q=(catalog.ID=(33751))
• Summary URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/38290
• Corporate Authors:

  Texas A&M Transportation Institute

  Texas A&M University System
  3135 TAMU
  College Station, TX  United States  77843-3135

  Texas Department of Transportation

  Research and Technology Implementation Office, P.O. Box 5080
  Austin, TX  United States  78763-5080

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Kruse, C James
  • 0000-0002-7519-161X
  • Ellis, David
  • Protopapas, Annie
  • Norboge, Nicolas
  • Glover, Brianne
• Publication Date: 2014-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 197p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; Financing; Intracoastal waterways; Maintenance management; Metrics (Quantitative assessment); Transportation planning
• Identifier Terms: Texas Department of Transportation
• Geographic Terms: Gulf Intracoastal Waterway; Texas
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Maintenance and Preservation; Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I60: Maintenance; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01580067
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 0-6807-1
• Contract Numbers: 0-6807
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Oct 29 2015 4:25PM