NETS News

NETS News Articles for 2005

JANUARY

• NETS Web Site Debuts
• Results of NETS Studies Presented at TRB Meeting
• NETS Researcher Appointed To TRB Committee
• Study Analyzes Impact of Greenup Lock Closure

FEBRUARY

• NETS Team Member Honored
• Study Shows Decrease in Carriers' Willingness to Pay for Water Transportation
• Survey Finds Increases in Transportation Rates, Transit Time Affect Shipper Demand

MARCH

• Theoretical Model Compares Competitive and Non-Competitive Markets
• Team Examines Integration of Shipper Choice Models Into Corps Planning
• Study Analyzes Discrete Event Simulation Model on the Upper Mississippi
• Columbia-Snake River Survey

APRIL

• Interim Report Looks at Transportation Demand on Upper Mississippi/Illinois Waterways
• Bruce Lambert Joins NETS Team
• NETS Update Presented at National Academy of Sciences Meeting

MAY

• Study Compares Fully Spatial Equilibrium Model to Traditional Corps Planning Model
• Profile of Barge Industry Developed
• NETS Research Presented at International Industrial Organization Conference

JUNE

• Study Analyzes Columbia-Snake River Transportation Demands
• Deep Draft Navigation Field Review Group Initiated
• NETS Research Presented to UMR-IWW Economic Coordination Committee
• NETS Team News

JULY

• Draft Study Examines Use of Appointment System on Upper Mississippi River
• Tradable Permits for Inland Locks Studied
• Project Report Presented on Longer-Term Forecasting of Commodity Flows on Mississippi
• NETS Team Members Visit St. Lawrence Seaway
• HarborSym to Be Featured in Training Course

AUGUST

• Final Report Issued on Response to Closure of McAlpine Main Lock
• Study Presented on Tradable Permits for Inland Locks
• IWR, USDA Sign Memorandum of Understanding

SEPTEMBER

• HarborSym Training to be Rescheduled
• NETS Team Member Honored
• NETS Research Presented at MARC 2000 Annual Meeting

OCTOBER

• Final Draft of Global Grain Forecasting Model is Released
• Advances in Transportation Theory
• Quality of Corps Navigation Data Documented
• Study To Analyze Container Shipping Infrastructure Demands and Risks

NOVEMBER

• Tradable Permits for Inland Waterways Final Report
• New Measures of Port Efficiency
• NETS Researchers Present HSAM Animation Module at HSM2005
• Overview of the U.S. Inland Waterway System
• Demand for Ohio River Shipments

DECEMBER

• Analysis of Stated-Preference Experiments
• Regional Routing and Multi-Port Analysis
• Spatial Competition between Grain Elevators
• HarborSym Training in Jacksonville
• Regional Routing Model Peer Support Meeting