Liu, Henry; Noble, James S.; Wu, Jianping; Zuniga, Robert - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 32 (1998) 5, pp. 377-391
This economic study was conducted to compare the cost of transporting coal from mines to power plants by coal log pipeline with other modes of transportation including truck, rail and coal slurry pipeline. Unit cost is defined here as the cost of transporting a metric ton of coal for any...