South America has been developed from its coast to hinterlands since the beginning of Western colonization. However, this point, no significant effort made integrate interior. Waterways transportation can be considered most sustainable inland mode due low CO2 emissions per ton cargo transport. With in mind, paper investigates history, challenges and opportunities past proposals for construction...

Waterway transportation is a very ancient mobility solution. Amazon region represents good case study, where waterway transport played and still playing important role. Nevertheless, passenger lacks economic models that help in designing implementing strategies towards sustainability. In this work, cost model of was developed based on the assumptions activity-based costing used linear programmi...

Background: The objectives of this study were to establish a swimming capability model for largemouth bass using the FishXing (version 3) program, and to determine the swimming speed and feasibility of fish passage through a waterway tunnel. This modeling aimed to replicate the waterway tunnel connecting the Andong and Imha Reservoirs in South Korea, where there is a concern that largemouth bas...

Abstract Canals, defined as artificial waterways, are built with the aim of providing shorter transit time, cheaper and safer maritime trade. However, in order for constructed canals to be used effectively, it is important determine their legal status according features. The fact that Kanal İstanbul planning build parallel Bosphorus, which natural waterway, ensures has its own unique features d...

1 Inland waterway transport (IWT) is an important part of waterway transport. Prevention and 2 reduction of inland waterway traffic accidents is always the most central issue of developing IWT. 3 And human errors contribute the most for ship accidents. As a dynamic process, the ship accident 4 results from a series of factors which are related in a complicated manner. This paper presents a 5 ge...

AIS (Automatic Identification System) data provides valuable input parameters in ship traffic simulation models for risk analysis and the prevention of shipping accidents. This paper reports on the detailed analysis of AIS data for modeling purposes. This analysis is focused on restricted waterways to support inland waterway simulations, comparing the differences between a narrow waterway in th...

The Keweenaw Waterway is a navigation passage with openings to Lake Superior at either end. Analysis of wind data and moored thermistor measurements indicates that movement of water into and out of the waterway is strongly influenced by surface winds through at least two mechanisms. One is direct forcing of waterway flows by the surface wind stress. The other is flow driven by pressure gradient...

A series of five locks form a transportation bottleneck in the upper Mississippi River navigation system. With optimizing models, statistical modeling and computer simulation, the authors explore the effects of alternative scheduling regimes and infrastructure changes to improve performance of an inland waterway transportation system. In this paper, the authors show the value of triangulating a...

16. Abstract This project uses statistical methods to analyze traffic congestion of the upper Mississippi and The main purpose of this project is identifying and evaluating non-structural alternatives (those not requiring construction, but rather procedural or policy changes, for instance, congestion fee, excess lockage time charges, helper boats, switch boats, deck winches, and moorings) that ...