NETS 2003 Symposium

The first NETS symposium was held May 9-10, 2003. The symposium was sponsored by the U.S. Army Engineer Institute of Water Resources (IWR). The objectives of the symposium were: 1) to inform academic participants of current Corps processes and methodologies and Corps understanding of possible improvements; 2) to develop a shared view of “improved" inland navigation economic evaluation techniques; 3) to identify and prioritize a list of research tasks necessary to bridge the gap between current practice and desired future; and 4) to Identify a defendable peer review process for evaluation of tools and methodologies to be used by the research effort. The following were some of the items and studies reviewed during the symposium:

Symposium Agenda (46 KB, doc)

NETS Symposium Briefing by Keith Hofseth (61 KB, ppt)

NETS Overview by Keith Hofseth (34KB, ppt)

Navigation Economics/Corps Practice by Paul Hanley (3.1 MB, ppt)

Data Availability and Needs by Dave Weekly (1.5 MB, ppt)

Waterway Systems

• Ohio River by David Weekly (18.9 MB, ppt)
• Upper Mississippi by Rayford Wilbanks (9 MB, ppt)
• Columbia by Brian Shenk (130 KB, ppt)
• Intracoastal Waterway by Gloria Appell (3.9 MB, ppt)

Generic Characteristics of Most Corps Waterway Models by Rich Manguno (39 KB, ppt)

Revised 2/5/07