Abstract
TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1963 explores waterway lock performance; the implementation of e-transport river information services to facilitate increased inland waterway transport; the feasibility of hub-and-spoke networks to improve the cost-quality level of container-on-barge transport services in existing and new markets; waterway traffic variations caused by lock closures and how this affects user demand changes; the implications of port growth for the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, California; and more. (Author/publisher)