Impact of Kansas grain transportation on Kansas highway damage costs

Details

• Creators:
  Babcock, M. W. ; Bunch, J. L.
• Corporate Creators:
  Kansas. Dept. of Transportation ; Kansas State University ; K-TRAN (Research program)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Trucking
  • Grain
  • Freight transportation
  • Highway maintenance
  • Highway planning
  • Sustainable transportation
  • Costs
  • Finance
  • Freight transportation
  • Grain trucking
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  KTRAN: KSU-01-5
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  Kansas
• Edition:
  Final report Jul 2000-Feb 2002
• Corporate Publisher:
  Kansas. Dept. of Transportation
• Abstract:
  Changes have occurred in the Kansas grain transportation systems that have increased trucking of grain. Kansas farmers will truck their grain a much greater distance to obtain the higher grain price at the unit train loading location. Farmers will bypass the local grain elevator, and the shortline railroad serving it, and truck the grain to the unit train loading facility, resulting in increased road damage costs.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/15500/dot_15500_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.20 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:8acdb81b703bea8a5eeed3d382290514a01435ab43f657d88837dd731de15495