Transportation Impacts of the Chicago River Closure to Prevent an Asian Carp Infestation

This project develops a simple linear programming model of the Upper Midwest regions rail transportation network to test whether a closure of the Chicago River to freight traffic would impact the capacity constraint of the rail system. The result suggest that the rail network in the Upper Midwest regions are nowhere near approaching capacity and that a closure would have little impact on the rail network. Two noteworthy sets of commodities may be adversely affected, cereal grains and other agricultural product and gravel and crushed stone.

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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/25395
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the Department of Transportation University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  Mid-America Transportation Center

  University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  2200 Vine Street, PO Box 830851
  Lincoln, NE  United States  68583-0851

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Strong, Aaron
  • Sikka, Nikhil
  • Salvatore, Lindsay
• Publication Date: 2012-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 34p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Fishes; Impacts; Railroad transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Invasive species; Railroad capacity
• Geographic Terms: Chicago River
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01458030
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Report # MATC-UI: 477, 25-1121-0001-477
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 31 2012 5:54PM