Seaports in the United States have been evaluated by two chief means. For intraport performance, measures of financial accounting and/or tonnage trends have been widely used. Variants of export-base analysis have been employed to render some sort of descriptive impact statement regarding port operations.

    The present work represents a departure from these information tools in the form of a model developed to evaluate and plan port performance. A form of cost-benefit analysis is employed to determine the direct outcomes registered by port operations. This format is extended in the form of an optimization problem using dynamic programming.

    The work uses a case-study approach where the outcomes of port operations are merged to concerns of public policy. The focus is on developing a planning model to aid the policy maker in determining the outcomes produced by port operations and developing strategies to improve upon these outcomes.


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    Title :

    Public seaport operations: a dynamic cost-benefit model


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1979-09-01


    Size :

    12 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown



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