Case Study: Energy Industry Economic Impacts from Ohio River Transportation Disruption |
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| Authors: | Çağlar Utku Güler Alan W. Johnson Martha Cooper |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Operational Sciences , Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson Air Force Base , Ohio;2. Department of Operational Sciences , Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson Air Force Base , Ohio;3. Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University , Columbus , Ohio |
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| Abstract: | Recent history is full of water transport disruption events that have had significant economic effects on the waterside industries. Such disruptions may be either natural or man-made disasters or planned outages on the river's lock and dam structures. To assess coal-based economic impacts for the Ohio River Basin, 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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