Marine Highway System
Transcript of Marine Highway System
Think. Learn. Succeed.
Surface Congestion Reduction Analysis & Modeling (SCRAM) Team:
Karen DavisGreg HaubnerJames Hingst
Bill JudgeChris Zalewski
Marine Highway SystemA Multimodal Short Sea Freight Shipping System
OR 680, Spring 2010
Background• GDP has grown exponentially in recent years, largely as a result
of international trade• Places huge burden on domestic transportation systems to keep
up• Expected volume of trucks on Interstate Highway System is expected to
double between now and 2035
• Trucks account for 40% of the time Americans spend in traffic• Additionally, in 2007, 60% of federal highway funding went
towards maintenance, vice new construction• The solution? – DOT established a framework to provide federal
support to expand the use of America’s Marine Highways
Limited Highway Capacity + Road Maintenance Costs + Traffic Congestion = Marine Highways
OR 680, Spring 2010
Port-Related Distribution Facilities in VA
CSC/AMCMODELING & SIMULATION
MARINE OPERATIONSMULTIMODAL SYSTEMS
RUTGERS/CAITSFREIGHT TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
INTERMODAL SYSTEMS
THE I-95 COALITIONVIRGINIA DOT
VIRGINIA PORT AUTHORITY NEWYORK/NEWJERSEY PORT AUTHORITY
DLR - GERMAN TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH CENTER
SHORT SEA SHIPPING CRS & SI APPLICATIONS
GEOEYEWORLD LEADERS IN IMAGERIES
CRS&SI DATA SYTEMS
GMUCRS&SI TECH APPLICATIONSINFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS
FREIGHT ANALYSIS
The GMU Consortium Team• The GMU Consortium team is tasked with analyzing feasibility of implementing Marine Highway Systems along the I-95 corridor
• The potential of applying MHS system in waterways from the commonwealth of Virginia ports is shown to illustrate the approach the GMU consortia will take to examine and select appropriate waterway for MHS implementation
OR 680, Spring 2010
Marine Highway System for Alternate Transportation
Warehouse(origin)
Warehouse(destination)
Seaor
Road
• Traffic Projections predict “landslide congestion”
• Adding highway capacity is not sufficient for stemming congestion
• DOT and Congress are seeking viable alternatives to highways
• SCRAM will:• Select one inland and one marine route
that will serve to reduce traffic bottlenecks in and around I-95 and explore options for moving fright traffic to marine highways
• Metrics will include:• Costs, energy consumption, time,
congestion, efficiency, air quality improvements
OR 680, Spring 2010
Our Tasking:• Build a scalable, discrete-
event based simulation• Estimate reduction of
surface route congestion• Perform cost comparison of
marine and surface routes• Compare end-to-end
transportation time using marine and surface routes
• Estimate any environmental benefits
Requirements Definitions
Considerations:• Deep water channels• Terminal capacity• Nearby road and rail feed
lines• Large capacity marine
terminals• Competitive advantage over
roadways• Costs• Time
OR 680, Spring 2010
Preliminary Approach• Design a discrete event simulation
using Arena to simulate the road and sea networks• Potentially also use MPL to optimize
the network
• Track costs, resource usage, time, and tonnage moved
• Goal is to gain specific and general insights to the benefits of a marine highway system
LoadShip
Origin
Destination
At Sea
UnloadShip
RoadNetwork
Seaor
Road
OR 680, Spring 2010
Expected Results
• Quantitative benefits and/or shortfalls of the two studied routes, including:
– Congestion reduction– Fuel savings– Freight movement efficiency
• Qualitative generalizations of key characteristics of marine highways, What does and does not matter?
• Discrete event simulation that can be adapted for further study of Marine Highway alternatives
• Policy recommendations
OR 680, Spring 2010
Project Plan - Three Phase Approach• Data Collection (bounding analysis)
• Cost, efficiency, demand• Compose list marine highway alternatives for study
• Simulation & Analysis• Inland Waterway
– Routing from the Port of Virginia terminals through James River to Parham Landing
• Coastal Waterway– Sea route from the Ports of Virginia
• Last Mile Analysis– Port access ways in selected ports
• Assessment/Report Preparation
OR 680, Spring 2010
References
• United State Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, Marine Highway Program web site:
http://www.marad.dot.gov/ships_shipping_landing_page/mhi_home/mhi_home.htm
OR 680, Spring 2010
Email GuidanceAgain, the goal of your project is to investigate the feasibility of
marine highway. Hopefully, we can reduce I-95 congestion. The SEORfaculty will expect you to apply OR methodologies to a real problemlike this. My role is more like a technical advisor. I will give youadvice if you encounter "big" technical difficulty. More importantly,Dr. Thirumalai is your primary contact of the client. You should meetwith him routinely and frequently, at least monthly, to give him anupdate and ensure that you are handling a "real" and right problem.(OR students tend to over simplify problems). Dr. Chen, 8 Feb 10
The team will be able to get lot of background information by visiting DOT/MARAD website and look under the Marine Highway program. There are marine highway corridors being proposed to Congress by both US DOT and the I-95 Corridor coalition . One important involvement for the team will be to select one inland and on sea way routing that will serve to reduce traffic bottlenecks in and around I-95 and explore options for moving fright traffic to marine highways. As we discussed discrete element analysis tools would be very handy to assess the advantages. Dr. Thirumalai, 6 Feb 10