National Waterways Foundation, In Cooperation with The Maritime Administration Releases Study on “The Impacts of Unscheduled Lock Outages”
Posted by transportation on Monday, November 6, 2017 in Uncategorized.
The National Waterways Foundation (NWF), in cooperation with the Maritime Administration (MARAD), have released a study — “The Impacts of Unscheduled Lock Outages”– examining the economic impacts of unscheduled lock outages that highlights economic benefits associated with reliable inland waterways navigation.
The study was conducted by the Center for Transportation Research at the University of Tennessee, and the Vanderbilt Engineering Center for Transportation and Operational Resiliency (VECTOR) at Vanderbilt University. It studied four geographically different locks on the inland waterways system: Markland Locks and Dam (Ohio River near Cincinnati), Calcasieu Lock (Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in Louisiana), LaGrange Lock and Dam (southern-most of the navigation structures on the Illinois River), and Lock and Dam 25 (Mississippi River, north of St. Louis), These four locks support traffic on every segment of the Mississippi River system.
