Optimal Transportation Patterns of Coal in the Great Lakes Region

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ID4041598
AuthorsL King (0000-0003-2574-704X), Louise P King (0009-0002-2807-6085), Emilio Casetti, Joel Odland, K Semple, Kirk T Semple (0000-0002-4046-2037)
Year1971
Volume47
Issue3
Pages401
Publication date1971-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEconomic Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/142817
OpenAlexW2333475110
LanguageEN
Citations received10

centers throughout the region. This demand is associated with the coking plants and utility plants in the region. Second, the productive capacities and rates on the major transportation routes are given. These particular empirical features of the coal distribution system do not appear to have been described elsewhere in the geographic literature. It should be stressed that the major emphasis in the paper is on the actual modelling of a real-world problem situation, namely the determination of optimal transportation patterns of coal in a region. The model which is formulated is partially tested with some real-world data in the latter half of the paper. There are many subtleties in the actual rate structure and rail-ownership patterns that could not be taken into account given the constraints under which this project was carried out. The results presented here, however, illustrate the power of this approach

Archaeology · Business · Coal · Economic geography · Geography · Environmental Science · Optimization and Mathematical Programming · Transportation Planning and Optimization · Urban and Freight Transport Logistics

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