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Title:

Changes of Containerized Freight Distribution by Capacity Increase on the Maritime Network into the U.S.

Accession Number:

01554155

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

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Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

The Panama Canal’s expansion, doubling capacity with larger lock systems has attracted attention from logistics business to academia due to its impending initiation date. Also, the Port of Prince Rupert anticipates increased vessel calls from Asian countries with their increased capacity, especially to the Midwest and South Regions of the U.S. In this paper, optimization analysis and assignments on the U.S. highway and rail networks are conducted with consideration of these two capacity expansions. Each project is examined with a focus on container flow and the impact on the rail and truck infrastructure. Differences are visualized by comparing the simulated estimates of each project at different times. Increased and decreased flows are visualized, and all simulations showed meaningful results. The Panama Canal’s expansion shifted flows from the West Coast ports to the Gulf and East Coast ports, and the Prince Rupert shifted more flows to the West Coast ports from the Gulf and East Coast ports

Supplemental Notes:

Alternate title: Changes in Containerized Freight Distribution by Capacity Increase on the Maritime Network into the United States. This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT045 Intermodal Freight Transport.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-3050

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Ko, Sanghyeon
Kim, Jaehoon
Anderson, Michael D
Mohammadian, Abolfazl (Kouros)

Pagination:

17p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Identifier Terms:

Panama Canal; Port of Prince Rupert

Geographic Terms:

United States

Subject Areas:

Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-3050

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 1:01PM