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

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

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Business GeneralEconomicsGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1249592550
ISBN13: 9781249592556
Publisher: Biblioscholar
Published: Oct 9 2012
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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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