Table of Contents

• Introduction
  • Objective
  • Methodology
  • Implications
  • Report Organization
• Literature Review
  • Characteristics of Intermodal Transportation
  • Intermodal Transportation Facilitators
  • Motor Carriers
  • Short Line Railroads
  • Intermodal and Class I Railroads
  • Transportation Technology
  • North Dakota's Outbound/Inbound Intermodal Survey
  • Economic Census Commodity Flow Survey
  • North Dakota Commodity Flow Analysis
  • Economic Census Commodity Flow Survey
  • Analysis
  • Transportation Cost Comparisons
  • Impact on North Dakota
  • Model
  • Truck/Rail Container Intermodal Terminal Costs
  • Intermodal Facility Costs
  • Firm Characteristics
  • Costs and Sensitivity Analysis
  • Base Case
  • Sensitivity Analysis
  • Lifts Costs and Volume
  • Total Investment and Annual Costs
• Conclusions
• References
• APPENDIX A*
• APPENDIX B*
• APPENDIX C*

*available in the PDF version

North Dakota Strategic Fright Analysis - Item I. Intermodal Highway/Rail/Container
Transportation and North Dakota

Prepared by

Mark Berwick

Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute
North Dakota State University
Fargo, North Dakota

October 2001

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