Completed Projects

• U of A
• MarTREC
• Research
• Completed Projects

Maritime and Multimodal Supply Chain Management

• A Policy and Infrastructure Evaluation Model of Commodity Flows through Inland Waterway Ports
• A Supply Chain-Oriented Methodology to Analyze Performance of Port-Related Multimodal Freight Infrastructure
• Analysis of Blockchain’s Impacts on and Applicability to the Maritime Industry
• Analysis of the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Vessel and Cargo Movements in the United States
• Changing Trade and Transportation Patterns: NAFTA, Cuba, and the US Gulf Coast
• Climate Financing for Marine Transport: Analyzing the Impact of Climate Adaptation Investments in Inland Waterways
• Combining Truck and Vessel Tracking Data to Estimate Performance and Impacts of Inland Ports
• Developing and Applying a Methodology to Identify Flow Generation Influences between Vessel and Truck Shipments
• Development of AIS Model of Texas Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Travel Times October 2019 to April 2021
• Driving Simulators as Educational Outreach for Freight Transportation
• Dynamic Decision Modeling for Inland Waterway Disruptions
• Economic Impacts of Lock Usage and Unavailability
• Efficient Dredging Stratagies for Improving Transportation Infrastructure Resilience
• Exposure to STEM: Diversity in Maritime Transportation
• Impacts of COVID-19 Restrictions on Freight Transportation in Coastal and Intermodal Port Regions
• Inland Waterway Travel Time Prediction
• Interdisciplinary Education Outreach with Traffic Sensor Build Kits
• International Port Dependencies and Resilience to Supply Chain Disruptions
• Learning from USACE Open Data for Locks 
• Marine Transport: Documenting the Need for Value-chain Collaborative Approaches to Achieve Decarbonization
• Measures of Freight Network Resiliency During the Covid-19 Pandemic
• Mississippi Multimodal Freight Analysis Model
• Modal Comparison of Domestic Freight Transportation Effects on The General Public:2001–2019
• Multimodal Transport and TransLoad Facilities in Arkansas
• Regional Economic Impact Study of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System
• Shipping Container Chassis in the U.S.
• Supporting Secure and Resilient Inland Waterways
• Supporting Secure and Resilient Inland Waterways - Phase Two
• The Changing Legal Landscape of Intermodalism

 

 Maritime Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure

• A Digital Twin for Visualizing, Evaluating and Maintaining Multimodal Transportation
• Assessing Maritime Infrastructure along the Mississippi: Chokepoints and Implications for Food Security
• Bio-Inspired Stabilization of Levee Slope on Expansive Yazoo Clay at the Maritime and Multimodal Transportation Infrastructure in Mississippi
• Climate Impacts on Lock Use and Performance
• Corrosion-Tolerant Pre-Stressed CFRP Fatigue Retrofits for Improved Waterway Lock Reliability
• Development of a Design Protocol: Sustainable Stabilization of Slope Using Recycled Plastic Pin in Mississippi
• Development of Rapid Setting Soil-Cement Mixture Designs and Performance Testing 
• Fatigue Crack Control in Waterwway Lock Gate Pintle Locations Subjected to Multi-Modal Fracture - Development of Multi‐Axial Fatigue Retrofits for Waterway Lock Gate Components
• Dredging Projects Selection when the Random Shoaling Effect is Considered
• Economic Impact of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway on the States It Serves
• Effect of Permeability Variation of Expansive Yazoo Clay at the Maritime and Multimodal Transportation Infrastructure in Mississippi
• Effect of Swell-Shrink Characteristics on Landslides in Yazoo Clay
• Engaging the Business and Tourism Industry in Visualizing Sea Level Rise Impacts to Transportation Infrastructure in Waikiki, Hawaii
• Exploration of Novel Multifunctional Open Graded Friction Courses for In-Situ Highway Runoff Treatment
• Evaluating the Performance of Intermodal Connectors
• Evaluation of Hydrogel–stabilized Expansive Soils in Mississippi for Sustainable Maritime
  Infrastructure Design
• Green Technology Approach for Capturing Pollution Washed from Transportation Infrastructures
• Identifying High-Risk Roadways for Infrastructure Investment Using Naturalistic Driving Data
• In-Situ Monitoring and Assessment of Post Barge-Bridge Collision Damage for Minimizing Traffic Delay and Detour
• Innovative Bio-Medicated Particulate Materials for Sustainable Maritime Transportation
• K8 MEMES: K-8 Maritime Education Modules to Engage Students
• Large Scale Evaluation of Erosion Resistance of Biocementation against Bridge Scour and Roadway Shoulder Erosion
• LNG Bunkering for Marine Vessels at the Port of New Orleans:  Siting and Facility Components
• Liquefied Natural Gas Phase III:  Export Competition in a Well Supplied, Flow-Shifting Global Economy
• A Multimodal Network Approach to the Inland and Coastal Waterway System
• Network Science-based Analysis of the US Marine Highway Network and a Random Graph Model for the Intermodal Port Network
• Optimal Dredge Fleet Scheduling within Environmental Work Windows
• Optimal Dredge Fleet Scheduling - Phase 2
• Phase II:  The Future of LNG for the US and Gulf Coast Economies 
• Planning for Managed Retreat: Decision Making in the Face of Climate Uncertainty
• Port Infrastructure Resilience Through Combined Wind‐Surge Demand Characterization

• Predicting Soil Type from Non-destructive Geophysical Data using Bayesian Statistical Methods

• Quantifying Resiliency of Maritime Transportation Systems
• Rapid and Non-Destructive Assessment of Levees for Strength and Liquefaction Resistance
• Trade-Off Analytics for Infrastructure Preservation
• Using CSA Cement for Novel Waterway Repair Materials

 

Disaster Response and Transportation Planning for Coastal and River Valley Communities

• Assessment of Evacuation Network Performance Under Different Evacuation Scenarios
• Development and Implementation of Sustainable Transportation Resilience Indicators
• Development of a Large-Scale Traffic Simulation Model or Hurricane Evacuation of Mississippi Coastal Region
• Development of Freeway Corridor Capacity Measure to Improve Transportation Resilience
• Evacuation Behavior and its Mobility Impacts in Coastal Communities from Across the Nation
• Evaluating Coastal and River Valley Communities Evacuation Network Performance Using Macroscopic Productivity
• Evaluating the Resilience of Port Operations to Local and Regional Transportation Infrastructure/The Resilience of the Port of Freeport During the Extreme Weather Event
• Informing Post-Disaster Restoration through Modeling Interdependent Agriculture and Transportation Networks
• Informing Post-Disaster Restoration through Modeling Interdependent Agriculture and Transportation Networks: Data Work
• Interdependency of port clusters during regional disastersMeasurement of Traffic Network Vulnerability for Mississippi Coastal Region
• Measurement of Traffic Network Vulnerability for Mississippi Coastal Region
• Modifying Ramp Management Strategies to Enhance Resiliency of Freeway Facilities
• National Inventory and Analysis of Transit Oriented Development in Proximity to Coasts and Port Facilities
• Novel Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Analytics Methods for Tracking and Monitoring Maritime Traffic
• Prediction of Port Recovery Time after a Severe Storm
• Quantification of Multimodal Transportation Network Vulnerability:  A Pilot Study in Mississippi
• Road Sign Recognition during Computer Testing versus Diving Simulator Performance for Stroke+Aphasia Groups
• Statistical Analysis of Vehicle Crashes in Mississippi based on Crash Data
• The Unintended Consequences of Flood Mitigation along Inland Waterways – A Look at Resilience and Social Vulnerabilities through A Case Study Analysis
• Towards Integrating Resilience into Everyday Transportation Practices of Coastal and River Valley Communities
• Utilizing Graceful Failure As An Opportunity for Flood Mitigation Downstream to Protect Communities and Infrastructure
• Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) Passenger and Freight Vehicle Applications to Enhance Safety and Efficiency in Coastal Evacuations
• Visualizing Sea-Level Rise Impacts for Transportation Planning
• Vulnerability of Fuel Distribution Systems to Hazards in Coastal Communities