The impact of reduced coal consumption on the Southeastern Railroad Network.
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2017
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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.
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