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Strategic Objective
To address and promote intermodal transportation by
companies that use America's inland waterways through research and development.
The focus is industry-driven technology priorities that will support an
integrated transport system for the movement of both domestic and international
freight.
Vision
To increase both the productivity and efficient flow of
cargo moved on a secured inland waterway system through the introduction of
innovative technology and intermodal networks
Mission
To foster research and technology development among
domestic transportation organizations which use the United States inland
waterways system
Background
The Inland Waterways Intermodal Cooperative Program (IWICP)
is an industry- led government facilitated effort conceived to provide leadership in adopting leading-edge business practices
and cargo handling solutions to waterways users and support a sustainable and
seamless intermodal transportation system. The IWICP was developed to
assist inland waterway users and their customers with an advanced system that is safe,
secure, efficient, effective, and accessible, while applying technology to
achieve its goals.
The IWICP is working toward achieving a system-wide intermodal
transportation network that is efficient in the intermodal distribution of
goods. With the waterway as the backbone of the system, the IWICP will
link waterway interests with shippers, short-line rail, and road carriers.
The IWICP will plan, market, and promote the system and
seek funding to alleviate growing congestion throughout mid-America. The
IWICP will seek to make this system among the most efficient waterway networks
in the world. The IWICP will foster regional development by increasing the
productivity of intermodal cargo movements through a combination of new methods
of cargo handling technology, innovation in terminal design, and new freight
identification technology.
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