Ohio River Denial as a Transportation Corridor and Its Economic Impacts on the Energy Industry

Abstract

What if the Ohio River is disrupted or denied partially or completely as a transportation corridor? A disruption may be either a natural or man-made disaster or a planned outage on the river's lock and dam structures. Recent history is full of water transport disruption events having significant economic effects on the waterside industries. To assess coal-based economic impacts, we developed a network flow model to represent waterside coal-fired power plants situated along the Ohio River, their respective coal supplying mines, and the various transportation modes that connect them. We show that significant transportation-centric insights can be derived by using only commonly available spreadsheet-based analysis tools, open-source information systems, and web-based geographic tools.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA500324

Entities

People

  • Caglar U. Guler

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Commerce
  • Economic Analysis
  • Economic Impact
  • Economics
  • Emergencies
  • Engineers
  • Environment
  • Freight Transportation
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Geography
  • Information Systems
  • Logistics
  • Rail Transportation
  • Spreadsheet Software
  • Transportation
  • Transportation Infrastructure

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  • Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Engineering.
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