Impacts of Energy Developments on the Texas Transportation System Infrastructure

Texas’s energy sector has a critical impact—historically and currently—on both the state economy and the Texas transportation system. The state’s various transportation modes, including rail, highways, pipelines, and ports, form a system that supports the energy sector in a number of ways. Examples include the (a) movement of various components during the construction and implementation of the energy source (e.g., wind turbines and solar farms), (b) provision of enabling infrastructure (e.g., transmission lines), and (c) movement of the intermediate and final products in some energy supply chains (e.g., low sulfur mid-west coal by Class 1 unit trains to the major coal burning plants in Texas). It is thus critical that TxDOT develop a better understanding of the current and future impacts of the energy sector on Texas’s transportation system, as well as quantify these impacts to ensure both adequate maintenance and its future sustainability.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.utexas.edu/research/ctr/pdf_reports/0_6513_1a.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  University of Texas, Austin

  Center for Transportation Research, 1616 Guadalupe Street
  Austin, TX  United States  78701-1255

  Texas Department of Transportation

  Research and Technology Implementation Office, P.O. Box 5080
  Austin, TX  United States  78763-5080

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Prozzi, Jolanda
  • Grebenschikov, Sergey
  • Banerjee, Ambarish
  • Prozzi, Jorge
• Publication Date: 2011-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Edition: Technical Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 234p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Coal; Energy; Impacts; Solar energy; Supply chain management; Transmission lines
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation infrastructure; Wind turbines
• Geographic Terms: Texas
• Subject Areas: Economics; Energy; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01375840
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA/TX-11/0-6513-1A, 0-6513-1A
• Contract Numbers: 0-6513
• Files: TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jul 18 2012 4:12PM