The Economic Impact of a Chickamauga Lock Closure

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• Creators:
  Bray, L ; Burton, M ; Dager, C ; Murphree, M ; Whitlock, A
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Center for Transportation Research
• Corporate Contributors:
  Tennessee. Department of Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Shipments
  • Dams
  • Transportation operations
  • Water transportation
  • Economic impacts
  • Dam Closure
  • Freight Shipment Effects
  • Upstream Navigation Impact
  • Closure Impact
  • Railroad Rates
• Publication/ Report Number:
  RES2013-22
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Tennessee ; United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Tennessee. Department of Transportation
• Abstract:
  The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) established a grant to the University of Tennessee Center for Transportation Research (UTCTR) to address the impacts of a permanent closure of the navigation lock at Chickamauga Dam. The impetus for the grant lies in the possibility that lock closure would “…have various direct and indirect effects on the Grantor State Agency and the state of Tennessee, both in terms of its internal functioning and the demands a closure would create for alternative transportation capacity.”1 The UTCTR is instructed to focus their analysis on five areas: 1. The availability and/or pricing of materials used by the Grantor State Agency to build and maintain roadways. 2. Demands for alternative roadway capacity in and around the Chattanooga area and incremental maintenance costs. 3. The economic impact on private-sector freight shippers that currently rely on Chickamauga Lock. 4. The subsequent operation of upstream locks and the maintenance of non-navigation river navigation aids. 5. The potential impact on railroad rates determined in the absence of a navigation alternative.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  29B268 (FHWA)
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/56226/dot_56226_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 785.03 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b16c9c3eb86a9f936b24ae9c6108fca69b96dbf9e5e92681e7ad4b5efb364075