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Title: CHARTING NEW WATERS
Accession Number: 00486202
Record Type: Component
Digital Copy: Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: U.S. systems for commercial navigation, which include both deep-draft ports and inland waterways, have been developed with public and private funds from a variety of sources. Port authorities are quasi-public agencies that are expected to make a profit. They develop facilities for public use, but more than 90% of the docking facilities represent private-sector investments. This is especially true of facilities for bulk cargoes such as coal, oil, and grain. In the current environment created by legislative and regulatory changes, questions and problems have been generated that are difficult for organizations that are primarily concerned with a single mode to address. The Transportation Research Board (TRB), having experience with multiple modes of transportation, is becoming more involved in marine and intermodal transportation. The TRB Executive Committee has created a Task Force on Marine Transportation to conduct a comprehensive assessment of how TRB can best serve the marine and intermodal transportation community. The Task Force will identify activities and research programs that would be appropriate for TRB. Potential areas of involvement might be, for example, effects of computerization on the movement of freight and productivity of ships and ports. Currently TRB is conducting a study to help the Maritime Administration (MARAD) Office of Technology Assessment examine technological and institutional issues that result from changes in government regulation of intermodal marine container shipping. TRB is also negotiating with MARAD for multiyear funding of a marine transportation program.
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Pagination: p. 23, 28
Publication Date: 1989-7
Serial: TRT Terms: Old TRIS Terms: Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Law; Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Research
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Aug 31 1989 12:00AM
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