Onward Movement Transportation Mode Selection Study

<p>As a result of the global security environmental changes the US Army's posture has changed from forward deployment to power projection and resulted in the reduction of the Army force structure. These changes also reduced the possibility of the United States' involvement in a large scale war but require rapid and reliable deployment to stabilize a hostile area. Force projection is the demonstrated ability to alert mobilize deploy rapidly and operate effectively anywhere in the world and consists of three deployment segments: fort to port port to port and port to foxhole. Reception Staging Onward Movement and Integration (RSOI) is a detailed process of the port to foxhole segment. Onward movement is the process of moving units and accompanying materiel from reception facilities and staging areas to Tactical Assembly Areas (TAAs). This study employs simulation models to evaluate whether the current transportation infrastructure can meet the required force closure time and which transportation mode train versus Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET) is faster to move M1A1 tanks in the Korean Peninsula in the onward movement process.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>