The U.S. marine infrastructure network encompasses the navigable inland waterways, harbor channels, ports, terminals and intermodal connectors, coastal sea-lanes and associated maritime domain, locks, dams and levee systems, and vessels and equipment. This vast system of waterways and assets supports a broad array of commercial cargo and passenger transportation, military navigation and force projection, and non-transportation uses of the waterways for recreational boating, commercial fishing, aqua-culture, and oceanic research. This report conducts an assessment of the MTS functions and condition, threats to its continued operations, and vulnerabilities that make the threats more likely to materialize, within a risk and resiliency analysis framework developed for this assessment. Within this framework, the study also evaluates the inherent elements within the system which mitigate the consequences of the MTS risk factors, and identifies technology deployment and policy solutions that would enhance MTS sustainability and resiliency.
Assessment of the Marine Transportation System (MTS) Challenges. Summary Report
2009
474 pages
Report
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Englisch