Date of Award
3-1-2009
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science
Department
Department of Operational Sciences
First Advisor
Alan W. Johnson, PhD
Abstract
What if the Ohio River is disrupted or denied partially or completely as a transportation corridor? A disruption may be either a natural or man-made disaster or a planned outage on the river’s lock and dam structures. Recent history is full of water transport disruption events having significant economic effects on the waterside industries. To assess coal-based economic impacts, 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.
AFIT Designator
AFIT-GLM-ENS-09-5
DTIC Accession Number
ADA500324
Recommended Citation
Guler, Caglar Utku, "Ohio River Denial as a Transportation Corridor and Its Economic Impacts on the Energy Industry" (2009). Theses and Dissertations. 2611.
https://scholar.afit.edu/etd/2611