The impact of reduced coal consumption on the Southeastern Railroad Network.

Details

• Creators:
  Burton, Mark ; Clarke, David B.
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Center for Transportation Research
• Corporate Contributors:
  National University Rail Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Coal Industry Coal Trains Freight Trains Hopper Cars Industrial Railroads RAILNET
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  National University Rail Center (U.S.)
• Abstract:
  The study had three goals:
  
  1. to document historical coal production, consumption, and transportation patterns in the
  
  eastern U.S. east of the Mississippi River and to describe changes to those patterns over the
  
  past two decades
  
  2. to catalogue and analyze the “early” railroad industry responses to reduced coal
  
  transportation demands
  
  3. to develop an analytical platform capable of predicting specific railroad network locations
  
  affected by coal-related changes, providing a tool for both private sector and public sector
  
  decision-makers who wish to test the impacts of various coal production scenarios and
  
  public-sector responses.
  
  This analytical platform, using the RAILNET model, incorporates:
  
   a highly specialized GIS depiction of the domestic railroad network;
  
   a complex routing algorithm that optimizes traffic routings, while simultaneously reflecting
  
  exogenous influences such as carrier sovereignty, institutional restrictions on interchange;
  
  and carrier-specific operating plans that include elements like directional running; and
  
   cost parameters that capture route-specific cost differences under varying levels of link use.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  NURail2013-UTK-R08 ; Grant Number: DTRT12-G-UTC18
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c73de2591c1cbb137ac590d03b5919f79540fb01b3a7972cf44cfb76a9e668bbd0dd8bd4e5ba0dd90db4960d033f2ca1894f7cc57ddf132098f58b8b86a912b5
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/32739/dot_32739_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.11 MB ]