Freight Transportation Resilience in Response to Supply Chain Disruptions (2019) / Chapter Skim
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110 allowing the DMC to control the density of military traffic at any given time on all state roads, freeways, and Interstates. SDDCTEA also uses the Intelligent Road/Railroad Information Server (IRRIS)
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111 information sharing protocols among trucking firms, railroads, port operators, USTRANSCOM and its deploying units, and the non-DOD federal agencies involved in port regulation and monitoring. This information sharing was needed on the composition, scheduling, port access requirements, cargo staging area locations and special handling needs associated with specific military unit moves.
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112 "The USNS Red Cloud, a 950-foot large, medium-speed roll-on/roll-off military cargo ship that spans the length of nearly three football fields, has just crossed through the Sabine pass and is transiting northbound for the Port of Beaumont. In the port, the Army's U.S.
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113 Army National Guard's 42d Infantry Rainbow Division (headquartered at the Glenmore Road Armory in Troy, NY) , consisting of helicopters, trucks, weapons, heavy equipment and supplies bound for Iraq.
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114 load it on a ship and lash it down" at the United Defense Ground Systems Division plant in York, PA. (Holcomb, 2006)
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115 APPENDIX C: CASE STUDY OF GRAIN SUPPLY CHAIN FROM ILLINOIS TO NEW ORLEANS A supply chain model was used to simulate the disruption of the shipment of cereal grains by barge between Chicago and New Orleans. The origin is the Illinois "Remainder FAF Region" (the portion outside of Chicago)
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116 The model is built in the "R" programming language, a computer programming platform with robust statistical analysis capabilities. The model consists of 13 major parts that work sequentially.
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