Railroad impact study: 63 rail-line segments in South Dakota

Technical Report · Thu Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1977

OSTI ID:6606042

Poth, L A; Peterson, J

The primary concern of the study (in 2 volumes) was the trade area served by a rail line. The trade area was determined on the assumption that a farmer will haul his grain to the nearest elevator located on a railroad line. The basic approach in this study has been to measure potential demand for rail transportation, not to analyze the traffic data accumulated in the recent past. The first five chapters give the summaries for the entire state of South Dakota. The rail-line segments have been revised and recorded to comply as nearly as possible, with that, used by the various railroad companies. Some railroad data were made available for this study to provide a basis for estimating the rail potential in the major cities of South Dakota.

• Research Organization: South Dakota Univ., Vermillion (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6606042
• Report Number(s): PB-276934; BULL-124
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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