The railway-road-inland waterway (IWW) transportation network in the Yangtze River Basin was extracted using ArcGIS software and the triangular mesh covered the simulated region was generated using Quantum_GIS software. The population density and gross domestic product were chosen as the characteristic economic variables, which were interpolated spatially into the mesh to analyze the origin-destination (OD) matrix of the coal transport network. Then, the multimodal transportation cost model was developed considering the detailed cost functions of railway, road, and IWW in an open source code programed by Python language. Finally, the coal transportation cost under different transportation allocation scenarios were calculated and compared to investigate the advantages and potential of the multimodal transportation mode in the Yangtze River Basin. The cost analysis about the multimodal transportation system showed that the IWW mode has great potential to decrease the transportation cost of the coal within the OD matrix although the railway mode took at least 80% of the total transportation load.


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    Title :

    The Coal Origin-Destination Matrix Analysis and Multimodal Transportation Cost Modeling in Yangtze River Region, China


    Contributors:
    Li, Jian (author) / Li, Wenjie (author) / Mu, Lin (author)

    Conference:

    International Conference on Transportation and Development 2018 ; 2018 ; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania



    Publication date :

    2018-07-12




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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