Management Systems for Inland Waterway Traffic Control

Project Details
STATUS

Completed

START DATE

07/01/04

END DATE

11/30/05

RESEARCH CENTERS InTrans, CTRE, MTC
SPONSORS

Midwest Transportation Consortium

Researchers
Principal Investigator
Ray Mundy
Co-Principal Investigator
James F. Campbell

About the research

A system of 37 locks and dams has been constructed along the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway (UMR-IW) to provide reliable commercial inland navigation. This infrastructure has a limited throughput and delays at locks and dams create congestion, bottlenecks and inefficiencies at certain critical segments of the UMR-IW system. Over one million barge-hours are wasted annually waiting in these queues. These hours both decrease the total quantity of goods that can be moved, and increase the transportation costs of goods that are moved on the UMR-IW. This project will adopt a complementary approach that seeks to reduce congestion by employing an intelligent appointment system at the existing locks.


Funding Sources:
Midwest Transportation Consortium

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