Issues in container transportation in the Northeast : background, framework, illustrative results and future directions

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• Creators:
  Grigalunas, Thomas ; Luo, Meifeng ; Trandafir, Simona ; Anderson, Chris ; Kwon, Suk Jae
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Rhode Island. Transportation Center ; Haeyang Yon'guso (Korea)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Container Traffic Demand, Least-cost Routing, Environmental Issues. Economics, Container Port Demand, Feeder Systems, Multimodal Transportation Economics, Container Transportation
• Publication/ Report Number:
  URITC FY02-11
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  New England
• Corporate Publisher:
  University of Rhode Island. Transportation Center
• Abstract:
  An integrated framework for addressing container transportation issues in the Northeast US is developed and illustrated. The framework involves the extension of a spatial-economic coastal container port and related multimodal demand simulation model to include a hub and spoke feeder system, with the Port of New York and New Jersey (PNYNJ) as the hub. When applied, the extended model would incorporate the introduction of barges for short-haul of containers and enhanced rail to distribute containers from the PNYNJ to distribution centers throughout the Northeast, by that reducing truck travel or regional roads and bridges. Potential environmental benefits from reduced truck traffic, such as air emissions, road wear and tear, and fewer accidents, may result. Extensions of the model to include shadow prices for such external effects are described and illustrated using, as a case study, potential benefits from reduced emissions of NOx from a hypothetical feeder facility on Narragansett Bay. Inter-port competition also is described and estimates of cross demand effects for other coastal ports are simulated. Possible strategic behavior by a hub port against potential competitors using an entrance deterrent model is presented.
• Content Notes:
  I. Introduction and Background
  
  A. Background
  
  B. Purpose and Scope
  
  C. Organization
  
  II. The Spatial-Economic Container Port Demand Model
  
  A. Introduction
  
  B. The Original Spatial-Economic Model
  
  B.1.Overview
  
  B.2. Mathematical Statement of the Model
  
  B.3. Extensions of the Basic Model
  
  III. Interport Competition and Strategic Behavior
  
  A. Introduction
  
  B. Interport Competition
  
  B.1. Illustration of Conditional Demand at PNYNJ
  
  B.2. Strategic Behavior
  
  IV. References
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  URI 536185
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:c3ac47fc5c6ee3b2ef2e9f8e0f88e3f4cafe2038ed37a8bd387829526d2ad8a6
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  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/16190/dot_16190_DS1.pdf
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