Comparative coal transportation costs: an economic and engineering analysis of truck, belt, rail, barge and coal slurry and pneumatic pipelines. Volume IV. Barge transport. Final report

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

OSTI ID:6991383

Rieber, M; Soo, S L

Coal transportation by dedicated-integrated tows is described and costed for the major inland waterways. Facility descriptions are provided. Each waterway (including locks and dams) is described for use in the costing analysis. The estimation of line-haul costs is disaggregated. It includes a separable estimation of user costs.

• Research Organization: Illinois Univ., Urbana (USA). Center for Advanced Computation
• OSTI ID: 6991383
• Report Number(s): PB-274382; UIUC-CAC-DN-223-Vol-4
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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