Supporting Secure and Resilient Inland Waterways

Details

• Creators:
  Nachtmann, Heather ; Hidalgo, Liliana Delgado ; Chimka, Justin
• Corporate Creators:
  Maritime Transportation Research and Education Center (MarTREC)
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology ; United States. Department of Transportation. University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Analytic hierarchy process
  • Barges
  • Decision support systems
  • Disaster resilience
  • Forecasting
  • Freight traffic
  • Inland waterways
  • Linear programming
  • River ports
  • Service disruption
  More +
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Mississippi ; United States
• Edition:
  Final Report
• Corporate Publisher:
  Maritime Transportation Research and Education Center (MarTREC)
• Abstract:
  Inland waterways are a cost-effective and environmentally-friendly mode of freight transportation. Natural and man-made events can disrupt navigation and may halt barge traffic. Our research provides decision support during inland waterway disruption response to mitigate negative time and value loss impacts through development of a decomposition based sequential heuristic (DBSH). The DBSH integrates the Analytic Hierarchy Process and linear programming to prioritize cargo and allocate barges to terminals. We solve thirty-five scenarios based on real-world Upper Mississippi River barge traffic data and find that our DBSH has similar performance compared to a previous approach with drastically improved computational time.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTRT13-G-UTC50
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/62414/dot_62414_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.13 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:97551772a1fb6c14aa9b94035e5529f4e5b26e825ab229a13dda65f840d073fa