Abstract

The inland waterway system carries a significant percentage of the national"br" freight. Maintenance operations including dredging and dam repair are important"br" to maintaining the effective and efficient operation of the system. Dredging projects"br" are for recovery of the navigational channel draft from the shoaling effect while"br" lock/dam repair is about maintaining a maximum possible operational hours to"br" reduce the waiting and delay of vessels therein. The special feature in this study"br" is that the shoaling effect is random, as is subject to weather and other effects."br" This study specially deals with maintenance fund allocation to these maintenance"br" requests by first proposing a multimodal approach for formulating the waterway"br" maintenance problem in a connected network, which considers rivers, locks/dams,"br" and highways and railways.