Efficient Long-distance Fuel Transportation

R. W. Lake, C. J. Boon and C. Schwier

Chapter 11 in The Economics of Long-Distance Transportation, 1983, pp 142-163 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract One of the most difficult tasks facing the transportation analyst is the economic analysis of new service or new infrastructure investment proposals, particularly the determination of the transportation mode or combination of modes most appropriate for the provision of a particular transportation service. Since its 1971 study of the railway alternative to the pipeline and marine transport of Alaskan crude oil, the Canadian Institute of Guided Ground Transport (CIGGT) has been involved with an almost continuous series of modal and system investment alternative evaluation studies, most of them involving the railway or pipeline transportation of fuel. All but the latest of these — a comparison of alternative high-speed passenger systems between Toronto and Montreal, a distance of approximately 600 km — can be classified as long-distance transportation.

Keywords: Cash Flow; Transportation Mode; Accessible Region; Discount Cash Flow; Transportation Unit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17013-5_11

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