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Integrating MTS Commerce Data with Multimodal Freight Transportation Performance Measures to Support MTS Maintenance Investment Decision Making
| 题名： | Integrating MTS Commerce Data with Multimodal Freight Transportation Performance Measures to Support MTS Maintenance Investment Decision Making |
| 作者： | Kruse, C. J.; Protopapas, A.; Bierling, D.; Olson, L. E.; Wang, B.; Khodakarami, M. |
| 关键词： | Multimodal freight transportation##Performance measures##Maintenance investment##Decision making##Marine transportation##Performance based investment##Freight data##Highway and rail crossing##Ports##Marine Transportation System (MTS)## |
| 摘要： | The Marine Transportation System (MTS) consists of the nation’s waterways and the connecting multimodal distribution system. The shippers who use the MTS want the system to be fast, reliable, and cost-effective. Given the vast quantities of bulk and containerized goods using the MTS, and the projected upward trend, it is vital that public agencies responsible for the separate elements of the nation’s freight transportation system align their investment and maintenance activities to ensure the necessary capacity exists to efficiently move cargo through waterways, ports, and their connecting road and rail corridors. The annual maintenance dredging of the MTS is critical to the reliability of the national multimodal freight system. Rational, objective, multimodal performance indicators could help allocate limited resources across the portfolio of navigation and surface transportation projects. Such performance indicators would assist in effectively gauging which portions of the MTS are most important from a multimodal freight system perspective. Under NCFRP Project 42, the Texas A&M Transportation Institute was asked to (1) identify, quantify, and describe the high-volume freight MTS corridors (including Great Lakes, coastal, and inland waterways) in the United States; (2) identify, quantify, and describe the intermodal connections for each of the high-volume freight corridors identified in (1); (3) develop proposed metrics and operations research methodologies for making MTS maintenance decisions that take into account the overall impact on the freight transportation system; (4) apply the operations research methodologies for making MTS maintenance investment decisions in five case studies; and (5) prepare a final report that documents the research effort, lessons learned, and suggested future research options. |
| 总页数： | 85 |
| 报告类型： | 科技报告 |
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