Firms are increasingly interested in transport policies that enable a shift in cargo volumes from road (truck) transport to less expensive, more sustainable, but slower and less flexible transport modes like railway or inland waterway transport. The lack of flexibility in terms of shipment quantity and delivery frequency may cause unnecessary inventories and lost sales, which may outweigh the s...

Spill Management Information System (SMIS) is a geographic information system (GIS)-based decision support system designed to effectively manage the risks associated with accidental or intentional releases of a hazardous material into an inland waterway. SMIS provides critical planning and impact information to emergency responders in anticipation of, or following such an incident. SMIS couples...

To avoid conflict and deadlock states in waterway with multiple locks and canals, a computer based traffic management system with proper control policy must be applied. The paper proposes a formal method for design of deadlock prevention supervisor by using discrete event theory, multiple reentrant flowlines class of Petri net and P-invariants control places calculation. By using and/or matrix ...

Chemical and isotopic (δ13C and δ15N) investigation of the Mandovi estuary along the Indian west coast affected strongly by the seasonal monsoon cycle was carried out. The Mandovi estuary is a major waterway for Goa and extensively used for transportation of iron and manganese ore. In addition, with large population centers as well as agricultural fields located on its shores, the estuary is as...

Health impact assessments (HIA) promote the consideration of health in a wide range of public decisions. Although each HIA is different, common pathways, evidence bases, and strategies for community engagement tend to emerge in certain sectors, such as urban redevelopment, natural resource extraction, or transportation planning. To date, a limited number of HIAs have been conducted on decisions...

Introduction Rivers are one of the most important water resources and it is very important to study their water quality. Therefore, in this study, sampling was done from 15 permanent waterway stations of Pirbadush and Gashun of Qolyan River in Lorestan province, which are located in the path of oil shales.   Materials and Methods  Hydro-geochemical parameters were calculated by analyzing t...

Managing models and schemas pertaining to different parts of the marine information domain is an important part of the U.S. Coast Guard R&D Center's proposed Waterway Information Network. This paper describes our approach to distributed model and schema management and an architecture for facilitating the use of formal artificial intelligence concepts in application development with XML.