Making U.S. ports resilient as part of extended intermodal supply chains /

"TRB's National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Report 30: Making U.S. Ports Resilient as Part of Extended Intermodal Supply Chains focuses on identifying and elaborating on the steps needed to coordinate freight movements through ports in times of severe stress on existing op...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Southworth, Frank (Author)
Corporate Authors:	National Cooperative Freight Research Program (sponsoring body.), United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (sponsoring body.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Transportation Research Board, 2014.
Series:	NCFRP report ; 30.
Subjects:	Harbors > United States > Management. Emergency management > United States. Organizational resilience > United States.
Online Access:	http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/ncfrp/ncfrp_rpt_030.pdf

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Summary:	"TRB's National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Report 30: Making U.S. Ports Resilient as Part of Extended Intermodal Supply Chains focuses on identifying and elaborating on the steps needed to coordinate freight movements through ports in times of severe stress on existing operating infrastructures and services. This report builds on NCHRP Report 732: Methodologies to Estimate the Economic Impacts of Disruptions to the Goods Movement System to provide a set of high-level guidelines to help seaport authorities with minimizing lost throughput capacity resulting from a major disruption."--Publisher description.
Item Description:	At head of title: National Cooperative Freight Research Program.
Physical Description:	99 pages : illustrations, map ; 28 cm. Also available online.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9780309284233 0309284236
ISSN:	1947-5659 ;