Comparative coal transportation costs: an economic and engineering analysis of truck, belt, rail, barge and coal slurry and pneumatic pipelines. Volume VI. Truck haulage. Final report

Technical Report · Mon Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1977

OSTI ID:6818055

Reiber, M; Soo, S L

An heuristic facility and costing model is developed for over the road coal transport at varying distances and tonnages. Cost data are based on industry sources. Road use costs are estimated. An example is presented.

• Research Organization: Illinois Univ., Urbana (USA). Center for Advanced Computation
• OSTI ID: 6818055
• Report Number(s): PB-274384; UIUC-CAC-DN-223-Vol-6
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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