Analysis of Inland Waterways Oil Transport Traffic Density Patterns.

Abstract

The report presents forecasts of oil traffic on 9 rivers and in 15 selected ports of the Mississippi River System. Included is crude oil, gasoline, distillate fuel oil, and residual fuel oil traffic moving on the inland waterways. A baseline forecast is developed using historical data and commodity volumes are projected for the years 1975, 1980, 1985, and 1990. These forecasts are revised on the basis of industry analysis, and converted to numbers of tow movements based on tow size projections. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 31, 1973
Accession Number
AD0777025

Entities

People

  • C. Charles Kimm
  • Robert A. Mendelsohn
  • William J. Sheppard

Organizations

  • Battelle Memorial Institute

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Industry
  • Commodities
  • Energy-Generating Resources
  • Fossil Fuels
  • Fuel Oils
  • Fuels
  • Gasoline
  • Inland Waterways
  • Materials
  • Mississippi
  • Mississippi River
  • Organic Materials
  • Petroleum
  • Petroleum Industry
  • Rivers
  • Waterways

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Oceanography.
  • Pavement Materials Engineering.
  • Petroleum Engineering