Case Study: Energy Industry Economic Impacts from Ohio River Transportation Disruption

Çağlar Güler, Alan Johnson and Martha Cooper

The Engineering Economist, 2012, vol. 57, issue 2, 77-100

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.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/0013791X.2012.677114

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