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Costing the Movement of Western Canadian Coal to Thunder Bay: An Incremental Approach

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The problem of selecting the appropriate mode or combination of modes for the movement of western Canadian coal to Ontario through the year 2000 is studied. The analysis includes the development of coal demand and supply forecasts, and an assessment of rail traffic and line capacity in western Canada. Marginal capital and operating costs for four alternative systems — rail/lakeboat, slurry pipeline/lakeboat, high-voltage direct-current transmission, and coal gasification — are developed, and tariff schedules for each system through 2000 calculated using a discounted cash flow computer model. A sensitivity analysis on the model parameters and cost estimates is performed.

This paper describes the results of a research project carried out under the supervision of Dr. R. W. Lake of the Canadian Institute of Guided Ground Transport, as part of the author’s MBA program at Queen’s University. Support was provided by a Transport Canada Research and Development Center Research Fellowship and by CIGGT.

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  1. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1W5, Canada

    W. T. Ziemba (Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration) & S. L. Schwartz (Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration) (Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration) &  (Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration)

  2. Schools of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA

    Ernest Koenigsberg

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Boon, C.J. (1980). Costing the Movement of Western Canadian Coal to Thunder Bay: An Incremental Approach. In: Ziemba, W.T., Schwartz, S.L., Koenigsberg, E. (eds) Energy Policy Modeling: United States and Canadian Experiences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8748-7_19

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