Assessment of the Marine Transportation System (MTS) challenges : summary report

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• Alternative Title:
  MTS task 7 summary report
• Creators:
  Barami, Bahar ; Dyer, Michael
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  Institute for Water Resources (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Marine safety
  • Maritime safety
  • Marine transit
  • Maritime industry
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Summary report
• Corporate Publisher:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-ECONOMICS AND FINANCE-Marine Economics and Finance ; NTL-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT-Maritime Energy and Environment ; NTL-MARINE/WATERWAYS TRANSPORTATION-MARINE/WATERWAYS TRANSPORTATION ; NTL-MARINE/WATERWAYS TRANSPORTATION-Marine Economics and Finance ; NTL-MARINE/WATERWAYS TRANSPORTATION-Marine Energy and Environment ; NTL-MARINE/WATERWAYS TRANSPORTATION-Marine Planning and Policy ; NTL-MARINE/WATERWAYS TRANSPORTATION-Marine Safety ; NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-Marine Planning and Policy ; NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Marine Safety
• Abstract:
  The Volpe Center Report on the Assessment of the Marine Transportation System (MTS) ; Challenges has been prepared in support of the Committee on MTS (CMTS) mission to ; address critical MTS challenges through collaborative interagency efforts. The CMTS, ; chartered in July 2005 as a Cabinet-level forum created to implement the ; recommendations of the 2004 Ocean Action Plan, is comprised of 18 Federal Cabinet ; Secretaries and two independent agency Administrators with jurisdiction in MTS. The ; Report is closely aligned with the priorities of the MTS National Strategy, and envisioned ; as a comprehensive assessment of the MTS in six critical need areas: Infrastructure ; Capacity, Economic Competitiveness, Environmental Stewardship, Safety, Security, and ; Funding. ; The assessment is developed within a Risk and Resiliency Framework that identifies the ; systemic MTS threats and vulnerabilities and the attendant consequences of a disruption, ; concluding with a parallel assessment of the elements that contribute to the system ; resiliency – i.e., safeguards such as capability for adaptive/preventive response to threat, ; system fault-tolerance, redundant resources, and presence of buffers that mitigate the ; consequences of disruptive incidents. For each MTS component, the Report identifies ; the strategic priorities – e.g., facilitating global trade and ensuring continuity of ; operations and maritime safety and security – and the associated vulnerabilities, e.g., ; inadequate infrastructure capacity, port congestion, deteriorating condition of locks, dams ; and bridges, or shallow channels. Balancing these vulnerabilities are the identified ; system strengths that make the MTS potentially resilient: advanced navigation ; technologies and Search and Rescue (SAR) capabilities, and the vast underutilized ; resources and terminal assets of the inland waterways. The Report, vetted by the CMTS ; Integrated Action Team (IAT) and revised to reflect their comments and priorities, ; consists of a Summary Report and seven supporting Appendices, A through G, ; containing the Task Reports prepared for the six MTS need areas, plus a seventh ; Appendix on Short Sea Shipping.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  Reimbursable Agreement (RA)-VH99
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/5747/dot_5747_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.84 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a5a6042ec18584f2ec6cc1f0486db5f639d6d809bb316a1c55daba24468e5a9a