COAL TRANSPORTATION CAPABILITY OF THE EXISTING RAIL AND BARGE NETWORK, 1985 AND BEYOND

Congested railways and waterways could hamper coal transport and increase the cost of coal use. Projected growth in coal traffic and in other rail traffic "would overload many of the network links on the shortest path from origin to destination," the report states. It is concluded that new cost models should be developed for the movement of coal, combining them with the FRA model to evaluate the total cost of alternative routing. The value of increasing the capacity of direct routes and of waterway improvements can then be assessed.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Report reviewed in the ASME Journal of Mechanical Engineering, V99 N4, April 1977, p 20.
• Corporate Authors:

  Electric Power Research Institute

  EPRI Records and Reports Center, P.O. Box 10412
  Palo Alto, CA  United States  94303
• Publication Date: 1977

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Coal; Coal industry; Costs; Financial capital; Forecasting; Freight traffic; Inland waterways; Railroad facility operations; Traffic forecasting
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cost analysis; Line capacity
• Subject Areas: Finance; Freight Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00157669
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: EA-237
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 4 1977 12:00AM