Railways generally offer a low-cost and environmentally friendly transportation mode choice for raw material transportation from raw material sources (e.g., oil, coal, metals, etc.) to sea ports. Quite often in oil transportation, railways compete side-by-side with pipelines, so productivity and frequency are the main concerns, and eventually infrastructure is tried to be utilized in the best possible manner. In this chapter, we present the simulation of the oil transportation infrastructure investment need in Estonia, a country that transports eastern transit oil to Europe from its sea port of Muuga for the last two decades. Our ‘system dynamics simulation application’ shows how growth, delays, and connections between different affecting variables result in railway-based transportation chain infrastructure needs in next decade. The developed method could be used elsewhere in the same branch, but also in other transportation subsectors.
Railway-Based Oil Transportation Chain Infrastructure Needs: A System Dynamics Approach
Shipping and Transp. Logistics
2012-07-25
14 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Random Uniform Distribution , Transportation Mode , Initial Public Offering , Growth Scenario , Road Transportation Operations Management , Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture) , Energy Policy, Economics and Management , Engineering , Energy , Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing
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