Freight Pipeline Feasibility Study

Project Description

The tremendous growth in the trucking industry over the last five decades has shifted the majority of freight transportation away from railroads to publicly subsidized highways. This growth coupled with the growth in numbers of passenger vehicles on our highways has resulted in capacity and maintenance problems on many key intercity highway routes. The search for innovative solutions to these problems includes the examination of freight pipelines as one possible means of diverting freight from highways to alternative systems and thereby conserving limited capacity and extending highway life. This research investigated the technical and economic feasibility of freight pipelines for moving goods and material between markets on select corridors.

Project Publications

The Technical and Economic Feasibility of a Freight Pipeline System in Texas--Year 1 Report 9-1519-1

Year 3 Report on the Technical and Economic Feasibility of a Freight Pipeline System in Texas 9-1519-3

The Technical and Economic Feasibility of a Freight Pipeline System in Texas--Year 2 Report 9-1519-2

Project Summary Report on the Technical and Economic Feasibility of a Freight Pipeline System in Texas 9-1519-S

Year 4 Report on the Technical and Economic Feasibility of a Freight Pipeline System in Texas 9-1519-4

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