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Corporate Author National Research Council (U.S.). Committee to Review the Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway Navigation System Feasibility Study.

Title Inland navigation system planning : the upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway / Committee to Review the Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway Navigation System Feasibility Study, Water Science and Technology Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 115 pages) : illustrations, map
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note "Support for this project was provided by the Department of the Army under Contract No. DASW01-00-C-3017"--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents ""Inland Navigation System Planning: The Upper Mississippi River�Illinois Waterway""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""ECONOMICS""; ""Spatial Equilibrium Model and ESSENCE""; ""Managing Congestion""; ""INLAND WATERWAY AND WATER RESOURCES SYSTEM PLANNING""; ""Integrated Systems Planning""; ""Independent Review""; ""U.S. Federal Principles and Guidelines""; ""ENVIRONMENT""; ""Effects of the Navigation System on the Environment""; ""Adaptive Management""; ""Adaptive Mitigation Strategy""; ""ENGINEERING""; ""1 Introduction ""
""UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER NAVIGATION""""NAVIGATION SYSTEM FEASIBILITY STUDY OF THE WATERWAY SYSTEM""; ""CHARGE TO THE COMMITTEE""; ""2 The Public Interest in the Upper Mississippi River ""; ""Allocating Use of a Waterway""; ""3 U.S. Federal and Corps of Engineers Water Resources Planning Guidelines ""; ""ESTABLISHING THE PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES""; ""The Federal Objective""; ""National Economic Development""; ""Water Resources Project Planning""; ""CRITIQUE""; ""Stating Environmental Quality Objectives""; ""Advanced Analytical Methods and Datasets""
""Uncertainty in Formulation and Evaluation of Alternatives""""Revising the Principles and Guidelines""; ""4 The Navigation Feasibility Study ""; ""PROJECT SCOPING, ALTERNATIVES, AND INTEGRATION""; ""Plan Formulation""; ""Environmental Context of UMR�IWW Planning""; ""ECONOMICS""; ""Traffic Demand Forecasts""; ""Steps in Traffic Forecasting""; ""Demand Models in the UMR�IWW Feasibility Study""; ""Commodity Production and Uses""; ""Route Choice""; ""Mode Choice and Transportation Congestion""; ""Strengths of the Corps' Models""; ""Weaknesses of the Corps' Models""
""Forecasts of Domestic and Foreign Commodity Production and Use""""Sensitivity of Waterway Tonnage to Barge Tariffs""; ""Alternative Demand Curve Specifications, Willingness to Pay Concepts, and Calculation of NED Benefits""; ""Modeling Lock Congestion""; ""Treatment of Uncertainty""; ""ENVIRONMENT""; ""Lock and Dam 26""; ""Environmental Data, Modeling, and Related Analyses""; ""Deficiencies of the Navigation Feasibility Study""; ""Lack of Systematic and Integrated Analyses""; ""ENGINEERING""; ""Lock and Dam Rehabilitation""; ""Construction Costs""; ""The Value of Independent Peer Review""
""5 Improving Waterway System Planning """"CONTEMPORARY UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS: THE STATE OF THE ART""; ""Analysis Under Uncertainty""; ""Sensitivity Analysis""; ""Monte Carlo Analysis""; ""Scenario Analysis""; ""Wait and See""; ""Finding Robust Strategies""; ""Comparing Approaches""; ""SHORT-TERM (NONSTRUCTURAL) MEASURES""; ""Congestion Problems on the Upper Mississippi""; ""Other Strategies for Alleviating Congestion""; ""LONGER-TERM MEASURES""; ""Traffic Demand Forecasts""; ""Forecasting World Import and U.S. Export Demands""; ""Forecasting Model Accuracy""; ""Dealing with Uncertainty""
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Subject Inland navigation -- Mississippi River.
Inland navigation.
Mississippi River.
Inland water transportation -- Mississippi River.
Inland water transportation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author National Research Council (U.S.). Water Science and Technology Board.
National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board.
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Other Form: Print version: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee to Review the Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway Navigation System Feasibility Study. Inland navigation system planning. Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, ©2001 0309074053 (DLC) 2001270526 (OCoLC)46944450
ISBN 0309563666 (electronic book)
9780309563666 (electronic book)
0309074053 (print)
9780309074056 (print)