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A Framework for Evaluating Societal Impacts Caused by Disruptions to Inland Waterways
Across the US approximately 600 million tons of cargo worth nearly $220 billion travels through inland waterways. Infrastructure supporting this transportation of goods, including inland waterways, ports, dams, and levees, is current averaging just shy of a C-overall on the American Society of Civil Engineers’ report card. With little opportunity for detours, a single disruption on an inland waterway can halt all transportation beyond the origination point and create significant fiscal and societal impacts to communities both up- and down-river. In this paper, these disruptions are evaluated within two contexts. First, this research examines the impact of a disruption that originates on the river, such as a lock closure, where the transportation infrastructure systems are impacted first and the communities are impacted second, as the disruptions ripple outward from the origination point. Second, this research examines a disruption from the river, such as a flood, where both the transportation systems and community are impacted simultaneously. Across each of these types of disruptions, we evaluate the complex relationships between the affected communities, the transportation systems, the supply chains, and the economy to develop a conceptual framework that depicts these relationships. In doing so, we advance the connection between inland waterway systems and their impacts to society and create a mechanism to enable decision-makers to think holistically about disruptions to these systems.
A Framework for Evaluating Societal Impacts Caused by Disruptions to Inland Waterways
Across the US approximately 600 million tons of cargo worth nearly $220 billion travels through inland waterways. Infrastructure supporting this transportation of goods, including inland waterways, ports, dams, and levees, is current averaging just shy of a C-overall on the American Society of Civil Engineers’ report card. With little opportunity for detours, a single disruption on an inland waterway can halt all transportation beyond the origination point and create significant fiscal and societal impacts to communities both up- and down-river. In this paper, these disruptions are evaluated within two contexts. First, this research examines the impact of a disruption that originates on the river, such as a lock closure, where the transportation infrastructure systems are impacted first and the communities are impacted second, as the disruptions ripple outward from the origination point. Second, this research examines a disruption from the river, such as a flood, where both the transportation systems and community are impacted simultaneously. Across each of these types of disruptions, we evaluate the complex relationships between the affected communities, the transportation systems, the supply chains, and the economy to develop a conceptual framework that depicts these relationships. In doing so, we advance the connection between inland waterway systems and their impacts to society and create a mechanism to enable decision-makers to think holistically about disruptions to these systems.
A Framework for Evaluating Societal Impacts Caused by Disruptions to Inland Waterways
Madson, Katherine (author) / Lather, Jennifer (author)
Construction Research Congress 2022 ; 2022 ; Arlington, Virginia
2022-03-07
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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