The Ports Resilience Collection features research on preparing, recovering, and adapting port operations in response to disasters and disruptions. Resources help address challenges faced by port operators and the maritime transportation system in planning for long-term ports resilience. Bookmark this collection: https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/collection_port or https://doi.org/10.21949/9tbf-2k24.
United States. Department of Transportation. Committee on the Marine Transportation System
2008-07-01
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America’s Marine Transportation System (MTS) moves people and goods through U.S. ports, utilizing a system of harbor channels and waterways to final delivery points or connections to highways, railways, and pipelines, and it is thriving. The MTS allows the worldwide distribution of our Nation’s agricultural and manufactured products. The MTS also c
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The 2014 biennial Marine Transportation System (MTS) research and development conference entitled Innovative Technologies for a Resilient Marine Transportation System was held on June 24-26th, 2014, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. The Conference was organized by the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and sponsored by the U.
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United States. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS)
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2018-12-01
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In October 2017, the Coordinating Board of the U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS) tasked the Marine Transportation System Resilience Integrated Action Team (RIAT) to identify the impacts, best practices, and lessons learned from the 2017 hurricane season. The RIAT is a consortium of Federal agencies that manage, operate, or a
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Ports are key elements of global supply chains, providing connection between land- and maritime-based transportation modes. They operate in cooperative, but competitive, co-opetitive, environments wherein individual port throughput is linked through an underlying transshipment network. Short-term port performance and long-term market share can be s
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United States. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS)
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2020-12-01
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One of the recommendations from the 2017 report “The 2017 Hurricane Season: Recommendations for a Resilient Path Forward for the Marine Transportation System” was to review subsequent hurricane seasons to understand challenges, successes, and adaptations. This report is a follow up to the 2017 hurricane seasons report by comparing the challenges, s
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Predicting the impact of incoming tropical cyclones on ports in terms of the number of days underperforming is crucial for the effective management of the ports. However, existing methods perform undesirably due to the limited data and the inherent uncertainty associated with cyclone trajectory forecasting. This study applies a recommendation algor
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The pressure and strain on the water transport infrastructure along the Mississippi river is a serious and urgent issue that requires attention and action from policymakers, stakeholders, and researchers. The purpose of this project is to evaluate the benefits and climate vulnerabilities of the Maritime Transportation system, focusing on port infra
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The goal of this study is to evaluate data and models useful for assessing the resilience of port operations to road closures caused by storm surge flooding. To achieve this goal, we used a case study of Port Freeport, Texas, and developed a prototype web-based application that can be used to a) predict storm surge flooding; b) predict road closure
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Serving as critical portals of a nation’s supply-chain, seaports and their associated transportation infrastructure are especially vulnerable to major disruptions from a variety of causes. The economic impacts of these disasters can be extensive well beyond the on-site operations at the port complex, through the supply-chain effects of the disrupti
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) established the Transportation Systems Center (TSC) in 1970 to serve as a federal resource positioned to provide world-renowned, multidisciplinary, multimodal transportation expertise on behalf of U.S. DOT operating administrations, the Office of the Secretary and other federal and non-federal organi
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Ports play a critical role in a nation’s economic system. The impact of a major port disruption can reverberate across the entire economy through regional and national supply-chains. This study develops an operational framework to evaluate the effectiveness of a comprehensive list of potential resilience tactics that can help ports and related busi
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Freight transportation is a major economic backbone of the United States and is vital to sustaining the nation’s economic growth. Ports, as one of the primary components of freight transportation and important means of integrating into the global economic system, have experienced significant growth and increased capacity during the past two decades
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Ports play a vital role in the economy of nations and provide a critical link in the supply chain. Ports form the gateway by which essential goods are received within large geographic regions. Because of their function, ports are exposed to substantial risk of flooding, storm events, sea-level-rise, and climate change. The resiliency of ports is es
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The economic impacts of a major disruption to seaports and their associated transportation infrastructure can be extensive and can affect people in a region unequally. To estimate the aggregate and distributional economic consequences of such disruptions, we developed an integrated transportation-socioeconomic analysis model to analyze the impacts
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Freight transportation is a major economic backbone of the United States and is vital to sustaining the nation’s economic growth. Ports, as one of the primary components of freight transportation and important means of integrating into the global economic system, have experienced significant growth and increased capacity during the past two decades
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Extreme weather events may disrupt port and coastal freight operations, resulting in direct and indirect economic losses to ports, supporting infrastructure, and reliant industry systems. Therefore, understanding the existing resilience capacity of the Texas port system to extreme weather events is necessary. To accomplish this, the weather hazards
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Mattingly, Stephen P.