Origin-Destination Model of Recreational Boating on the Twin Cities Reaches of the Mississippi and St. Croix River. Long Term Resource Monitoring Program

摘要

The mission of the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program is to provide decision makers with information to maintain the Upper Mississippi River System as a viable large river ecosystem given its multiple-use character. The 1991 river boating study focused on the Twin Cities metropolitan area. It encompassed the Mississippi River from Coon Rapids Dam to Dam 5, and the commercially navigable reaches of the lower St. Croix and Minnesota River. The study was conducted from July 3 to September 2. The primary goal of the study was to collect the information needed to construct a mathematical origin-destination model of boat trips in the study area and, ultimately, to build such as model. The model would permit the manipulation of boat access development (locations and sizes of ramps and marinas) and would estimate the resultant impact of these manipulations on summer boating patterns on different reaches of the rivers.