INLAND WATERWAY REPORTS AND ISSUES

The papers are presented which were read at the two formal sessions of Transportation Research Board Committee on Inland Water Transportation, at the Fifty-fifth Annual Meeting of the board. These papers discuss the activities, needs, processes, and resources involved in the place of water transportation as an emerging entity in our notation transportation policy. One session, that with papers by Goodwin and Haefner and others, develops a framework for integrating port planning into multimodal transportation planning and statewide transportation studies, and views the port as a complex entity involving several federal agencies and their planning processes. The second session reflects on emerging issues in national water transportation policy that are relevant to the long-run use of national resources. The papers by Clark and Cooke and by Hershey overview the complex problems of user charges and federal transportation regulatory policy. A discussion of the impact of waterway improvement projects is undertaken in the paper by Antle, and the necessity for appropriate economic and environmental analysis is demonstrated. The sessions build a framework for long-run Transportation Research Board activities in studying the integration of water transportation into the multimodal analysis scheme and the stimulation of improved interagency cooperation.

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• Authors:
  • Haefner, L E
• Conference:
  • 55th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1976-1-19 to 1976-1-23
• Publication Date: 1976

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 24p
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 620
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Economic analysis; Environmental impacts; Federal government; Inland water transportation; Inland waterways; Interagency relations; Intermodal transportation; Multimodal transportation; Needs assessment; Port operations; Ports; Regulation; Research; Transportation; Transportation planning; Transportation policy; User charges; Water transportation; Waterways
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Old TRIS Terms: Inland waterways transportation; Transportation research; Waterway transportation
• Subject Areas: Economics; Research; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00163889
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309025990
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Oct 13 1977 12:00AM