DiPietro, Gwen Shepherd; Scott Matthews, H.; … - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 69 (2014) C, pp. 142-164
The paper examines the potential effects of failure of heavily used, outdated locks and dams on the Monongahela River in southwestern Pennsylvania. Catastrophic failure would result in lengthy outage of barge traffic. The displaced volume of coal shipments from mines to power plants is estimated...