Maritime transportation functions as the backbone of world trade. The U.S. inland waterway system is comprised 12,000 miles navigable waterways that connect and move freight between global supply chain thirty eight States. When investing in infrastructure, we should aim to maximize all benefits associated with investment including flood protection, water supply, hydropower generation, recreatio...

Municipal infrastructure is a fundamental facility for the normal operation and development of an urban city and is of significance for the stable progress of sustainable urbanization around the world, especially in developing countries. Based on the municipal infrastructure data of the prefecture-level cities in China, municipal infrastructure development is assessed comprehensively using a FA...

The identification of infrastructure critical to regional rail freight operations has many implications. Primarily, such a process informs policy-makers and directs funding to areas of high importance and/or greatest need. For the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP), analysts at Cambridge Systematics developed an infrastructure identification process designed to evaluate which key a...

The purpose of this work is to provide information on the development infrastructure African economy. study provides statistics regions and industries. This article focuses forms economic social infrastructure, directs determine share infrastructural in Africa. Africa has entered an era devastating change shows that with unfolding downturn northern economies have traditionally dominated global ...

The ability to collect detailed information about customer behavior and the ease of communication due to new technologies (including Internet and IT) have motivated extensive research into dynamic decision making in general and continuous-time production, pricing and investment strategies in particular. The carry over to investments in supply chain infrastructures by interacting firms, sharing ...