Modeling Dynamic Behavior of Navigable Inland Waterways
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2024-05-10
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Abstract:The inland waterway freight system is a valuable and underutilized asset within the United States (U.S.) transportation system, providing an economical and environmentally sound mode for moving cargo. Container on Barge (COB) transportation is an intermodal freight transport mode that moves shipping containers via barges on navigable inland and intracoastal waterways. During the past twenty years, COB has been a growing mode of container shipping globally due to its low-cost, eco-friendly, and congestion-reducing characteristics. Europe and China are currently in leading positions in global COB transportation, and the U.S. may have the potential to achieve economic benefits through the implementation of COB within its intermodal transportation system. In this project, three contributions are made: 1) a literature review to systematically describe the development and status of COB transportation research, 2) a Value-Focused Thinking-based decision model to assess the feasibility of implementing COB at inland waterway ports within the United States, and 3) a machine learning study to perform container volume forecasting for COB transportation within the United States. This research assists maritime transportation decision-makers and individual inland waterway port/terminal operators to: 1) adopt success experience from global COB development, 2) comprehensively and practically assess the feasibility of COB development based on values identified from successful implementation, 3) forecast future container throughput volume at major seaports to infer the demands in connecting inland waterway ports via COB, and 4) form suitable port development and operational strategies based on forecasted demand to increase the overall rate of successfully developing COB transportation.
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