Collaboration in Regional Civilian and Military Transportation Planning

Abstract

The Strategic Mobility 21 (SM 21) Program is investigating new concepts for improving the utilization of the strategic ports in Southern California for military and civilian purposes. Among project goals are justifying the building of new regional transportation infrastructure to double the present throughput of container shipments through the ports as well as to efficiently support the surge deployment and sustainment of US military combat assets through the ports. This paper describes how the SM 21 program is using web-based collaboration technologies including wikis, blogs, and Modeling, Simulation and Analysis tools to address two key program areas: a regional planning interface that makes data, models, and analyses available to all stakeholders in an interactive and configurable manner and a specific interface that enables collaboration between military land transportation planners and military ship load planners. A goal of both efforts is to make significant improvements in both how information is shared and how the consequences of different courses of action are explored.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA481450

Entities

People

  • Ed Savacool
  • George S. Carson

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Command And Control
  • Commerce
  • Data Sets
  • Deployment
  • Infrastructure
  • Land Transportation
  • Logistics
  • Marine Terminals
  • Military Equipment
  • Military Transportation
  • Regional Planning
  • Simulations
  • Spreadsheet Software
  • Transportation
  • Transportation Infrastructure
  • User Interface

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
  • Strategic Security Studies