Waterways: Working for America. Waterways transportation keeps commerce on the move, with fewer societal impacts than truck or rail.

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1 A Ilad Marie Highway for Freight America s ilad river barge system moves freight more safely ad more efficietly tha rail or truck. It is a key compoet of the trasportatio etwork ad essetial our coutry s ecoomic stregth. Coectig our commuities The ilad waterways system icludes about 2,000 miles of commercially avigable chaels ad some 240 lock sites. America s ilad marie highways move commerce ad from 38 states throughout the atio s heartlad ad Pacific Northwest, serve idustrial ad agricultural ceters ad facilitate imports ad exports at gateway ports o the Gulf Coast. Movig the atio s commodities Waterways trasport more tha 60% of the atio s grai exports, about 22% of domestic petroleum ad petroleum products ad 20% of the coal used i electricity geeratio. Barges are ideal for haulig bulk commodities ad movig oversized or overweight equipmet. Coal Iro & Steel Chemicals Petroleum Grai Aggregates Project Cargoes Itermodal Cotaiers America s Waterways Are Ready Meet Growig Demads Except for a few cogested locks scheduled for replacemet, our avigable ilad waterways system has a abudace of uused capacity. Waterways will trasport the bulk commodities eeded day ad morrow while also movig a icreasig share of itermodal cargo i the years come. By relievig growig trasportatio cogestio with the least impact of ay surface mode o air quality, public safety ad the eviromet, waterways really are our trasportatio solutio for the future. This brochure summarizes the study titled A Modal Compariso of Freight Trasportatio Effects o the Geeral Public by the Texas Trasportatio Istitute, Ceter for Ports ad Waterways. It was coducted over a oe-year period ad was peer-reviewed by idepedet uiversity-based experts. For the full report, visit our website: Stregtheig our ecoomy Every year, roughly 624 millio s of waterbore cargo trasit the ilad waterways, a volume equal about 4% of all itercity freight ad valued at early $70 billio. Mieapolis / St. Paul Portlad Chicago Pittsburgh The missio of the Natioal Waterways Foudatio is develop the itellectual ad factual argumets for a efficiet, well-fuded ad secure ilad waterways system. The Foudatio eeds your support. To fid out how get ivolved, lear how your orgaizatio ca beefit from the foudatio s research, or make a tax-deductible doatio, please call or visit our website. Waterways: Workig for America St. Louis Tulsa Waterways trasportatio keeps commerce o the move, with fewer societal impacts tha truck or rail. This study was co-sposored by the U.S. Departmet of Trasportatio Maritime Admiistratio (MARAD). Hous Mobile New Orleas Corpus Christi Highlights of A Modal Compariso of Freight Trasportatio Effects o the Geeral Public Natioal Waterways Foudatio 80 North Quicy Street, Suite 200, Arlig,Virgiia NWF@vesselalliace.com A study by the Texas Trasportatio Istitute, Ceter for Ports ad Waterways 2008 Natioal Waterways Foudatio

2 Our waterways provide great capacity ease cogestio by carryig cargo that would otherwise travel by truck or rail. The aual traffic o America s ilad avigatio system, icludig the Gulf Itracoastal Waterway ad the Ohio, Mississippi ad Columbia-Sake River systems, carries the equivalet of 58 millio truck trips each year. Maitaiig Safety Ijuries i Freight Trasportatio Ilad waterways trasport has a low ijury ad fatality record compared rail or truck. If waterbore cargo were diverted highways or rail Divertig waterbore cargo the atio s Iterstates would cause heavy truck traffic early double. Or, if the curret waterway freight traffic were diverted rail, the age o the atio s railroad system would icrease by early 25%, with the heaviest burde beig placed o the Easter U.S. railroads, which are already operatig at ear capacity. To highways: Two iches of asphalt would be eeded icrease the pavemet thickess of 26,000 lae-miles of itercity Iterstate. The effects would be greater for highways parallel the waterways. Fatalities i Freight Trasportatio Icreasig Cargo Capacity Oe 5-Barge Tow Modal Freight Use Stadard Capacity Barge - Liquid Bulk 27,500 Barrels Barge - Dry Bulk,750 Tos Rail - Bulk Car 0 Tos Highway Tracr-Trailer 25 Tos 26 Rail Cars + 6 Locomotives 2,7.5 Uits Carry,750 Short Tos of Dry Cargo Oe loaded covered hopper 58,333 bushels of wheat, eough make almost 2.5 millio loaves of bread. To rail: To trasport coal used i more tha 50 electric geeratig plats adjacet the Ohio River System, CSX railroad would eed 56 ew locomotives ad 5,66 ew coal cars. The system s average trai velocity would drop by oe-third Hypothetical Case Study: 6.06 Waterways Closure o the Mississippi & Illiois Rivers What would happe if the Mississippi ad Illiois Rivers were shut dow i the viciity of St. Louis? Usig the Federal Highway Admiistratio s HERS_ST model, the Texas Trasportatio Istitute estimated the resultig impacts of shiftig millios of s of cargo from the river system the city s already crowded Iterstate arteries. Traffic delays would icrease by almost Ijuries ad fatalities o Iterstates would icrease by Maiteace costs would icrease by All trasport modes work hard prevet accidets, huma errors ad other causes of spills, icludig groudigs i the case of barge trasportatio. Overall, spill rates are very low with trucks losig oly 6.06 gallos per oe millio miles, rail cars oly 3.86 gallos ad barges 3.6 gallos per oe millio -miles. 70 trucks,050 Large Semi Tracr-Trailers Uits Carry 27,500 Barrels of Liquid Cargo A loaded tak 27,500 barrels of gasolie, eough keep about 2,500 aumobiles ruig for a etire year. The emissio compariso betwee ilad wig, rail ad truck trasportatio shows that fewer air pollutats are geerated by movig products o America s ilad avigatio system. These pollutats iclude: Particulate matter () Hydrocarbos () rail cars 44 trucks Movig Forward, Savig Eergy Carbo mooxide () Nitroge oxides () Emissios (Grams/To-mile) While a permaet river shutdow caot be aticipated, this case study demostrates that the loss of river trasportatio would have a dramatic egative impact. 6 rail cars Ilad waterways trasport geerates fewer emissios tha rail or truck. % % % 45% 36 80% 93% Truck traffic o St. Louis roadways would icrease by Ilad waterways trasport moves hazardous materials safely. Esurig Cleaer Air Assumig that cost-effective roadway improvemets were udertake, the aalysis cocluded that highway costs over 0 years would icrease from $345 millio over $72 millio. Protectig Commuities Spills of more tha,000 gallos Creative: Howell Creative Group Rate of Spills i Gallos per Millio To-miles Oe Commo Barge Tow Carries the Load of Hudreds of Rail Cars or Trucks A typical cargo barge moves much more cargo tha a sigle truck or rail car. Safety-related statistics for all modes of freight trasportatio show oe ijury i the ilad marie secr for every 25.2 i the rail secr ad 2,7.5 i the highway secr, ad oe fatality i the ilad marie secr for every 22.7 i the rail secr ad i the highway secr. A Costly Sceario: Movig Freight Efficietly Throughout America Safeguardig Our Health ad the Eviromet Easig Rail ad Highway Cogestio i Our Commuities Advatages of Ilad Waterways Trasport: Advatages of Ilad Waterways Trasport: America s Waterways: = Particulate matter = Hydrocarbos = Carbo mooxide = Nitroge oxides Trasportig freight by water is the most eergy-efficiet choice. The most eergy-efficiet way move commodities such as coal, grai, iro, steel, aggregates, petroleum ad chemical products is use 576 the atio s avigable rivers. Barges ca move oe of cargo 576 miles per gallo 43 of fuel. A rail car would move the same of cargo 43 miles, ad a truck oly miles. To-miles Traveled per Gallo of Fuel

3 Our waterways provide great capacity ease cogestio by carryig cargo that would otherwise travel by truck or rail. The aual traffic o America s ilad avigatio system, icludig the Gulf Itracoastal Waterway ad the Ohio, Mississippi ad Columbia-Sake River systems, carries the equivalet of 58 millio truck trips each year. Maitaiig Safety Ijuries i Freight Trasportatio Ilad waterways trasport has a low ijury ad fatality record compared rail or truck. If waterbore cargo were diverted highways or rail Divertig waterbore cargo the atio s Iterstates would cause heavy truck traffic early double. Or, if the curret waterway freight traffic were diverted rail, the age o the atio s railroad system would icrease by early 25%, with the heaviest burde beig placed o the Easter U.S. railroads, which are already operatig at ear capacity. To highways: Two iches of asphalt would be eeded icrease the pavemet thickess of 26,000 lae-miles of itercity Iterstate. The effects would be greater for highways parallel the waterways. Fatalities i Freight Trasportatio Icreasig Cargo Capacity Oe 5-Barge Tow Modal Freight Use Stadard Capacity Barge - Liquid Bulk 27,500 Barrels Barge - Dry Bulk,750 Tos Rail - Bulk Car 0 Tos Highway Tracr-Trailer 25 Tos 26 Rail Cars + 6 Locomotives 2,7.5 Uits Carry,750 Short Tos of Dry Cargo Oe loaded covered hopper 58,333 bushels of wheat, eough make almost 2.5 millio loaves of bread. To rail: To trasport coal used i more tha 50 electric geeratig plats adjacet the Ohio River System, CSX railroad would eed 56 ew locomotives ad 5,66 ew coal cars. The system s average trai velocity would drop by oe-third Hypothetical Case Study: 6.06 Waterways Closure o the Mississippi & Illiois Rivers What would happe if the Mississippi ad Illiois Rivers were shut dow i the viciity of St. Louis? Usig the Federal Highway Admiistratio s HERS_ST model, the Texas Trasportatio Istitute estimated the resultig impacts of shiftig millios of s of cargo from the river system the city s already crowded Iterstate arteries. Traffic delays would icrease by almost Ijuries ad fatalities o Iterstates would icrease by Maiteace costs would icrease by All trasport modes work hard prevet accidets, huma errors ad other causes of spills, icludig groudigs i the case of barge trasportatio. Overall, spill rates are very low with trucks losig oly 6.06 gallos per oe millio miles, rail cars oly 3.86 gallos ad barges 3.6 gallos per oe millio -miles. 70 trucks,050 Large Semi Tracr-Trailers Uits Carry 27,500 Barrels of Liquid Cargo A loaded tak 27,500 barrels of gasolie, eough keep about 2,500 aumobiles ruig for a etire year. The emissio compariso betwee ilad wig, rail ad truck trasportatio shows that fewer air pollutats are geerated by movig products o America s ilad avigatio system. These pollutats iclude: Particulate matter () Hydrocarbos () rail cars 44 trucks Movig Forward, Savig Eergy Carbo mooxide () Nitroge oxides () Emissios (Grams/To-mile) While a permaet river shutdow caot be aticipated, this case study demostrates that the loss of river trasportatio would have a dramatic egative impact. 6 rail cars Ilad waterways trasport geerates fewer emissios tha rail or truck. % % % 45% 36 80% 93% Truck traffic o St. Louis roadways would icrease by Ilad waterways trasport moves hazardous materials safely. Esurig Cleaer Air Assumig that cost-effective roadway improvemets were udertake, the aalysis cocluded that highway costs over 0 years would icrease from $345 millio over $72 millio. Protectig Commuities Spills of more tha,000 gallos Creative: Howell Creative Group Rate of Spills i Gallos per Millio To-miles Oe Commo Barge Tow Carries the Load of Hudreds of Rail Cars or Trucks A typical cargo barge moves much more cargo tha a sigle truck or rail car. Safety-related statistics for all modes of freight trasportatio show oe ijury i the ilad marie secr for every 25.2 i the rail secr ad 2,7.5 i the highway secr, ad oe fatality i the ilad marie secr for every 22.7 i the rail secr ad i the highway secr. A Costly Sceario: Movig Freight Efficietly Throughout America Safeguardig Our Health ad the Eviromet Easig Rail ad Highway Cogestio i Our Commuities Advatages of Ilad Waterways Trasport: Advatages of Ilad Waterways Trasport: America s Waterways: = Particulate matter = Hydrocarbos = Carbo mooxide = Nitroge oxides Trasportig freight by water is the most eergy-efficiet choice. The most eergy-efficiet way move commodities such as coal, grai, iro, steel, aggregates, petroleum ad chemical products is use 576 the atio s avigable rivers. Barges ca move oe of cargo 576 miles per gallo 43 of fuel. A rail car would move the same of cargo 43 miles, ad a truck oly miles. To-miles Traveled per Gallo of Fuel

4 Our waterways provide great capacity ease cogestio by carryig cargo that would otherwise travel by truck or rail. The aual traffic o America s ilad avigatio system, icludig the Gulf Itracoastal Waterway ad the Ohio, Mississippi ad Columbia-Sake River systems, carries the equivalet of 58 millio truck trips each year. Maitaiig Safety Ijuries i Freight Trasportatio Ilad waterways trasport has a low ijury ad fatality record compared rail or truck. If waterbore cargo were diverted highways or rail Divertig waterbore cargo the atio s Iterstates would cause heavy truck traffic early double. Or, if the curret waterway freight traffic were diverted rail, the age o the atio s railroad system would icrease by early 25%, with the heaviest burde beig placed o the Easter U.S. railroads, which are already operatig at ear capacity. To highways: Two iches of asphalt would be eeded icrease the pavemet thickess of 26,000 lae-miles of itercity Iterstate. The effects would be greater for highways parallel the waterways. Fatalities i Freight Trasportatio Icreasig Cargo Capacity Oe 5-Barge Tow Modal Freight Use Stadard Capacity Barge - Liquid Bulk 27,500 Barrels Barge - Dry Bulk,750 Tos Rail - Bulk Car 0 Tos Highway Tracr-Trailer 25 Tos 26 Rail Cars + 6 Locomotives 2,7.5 Uits Carry,750 Short Tos of Dry Cargo Oe loaded covered hopper 58,333 bushels of wheat, eough make almost 2.5 millio loaves of bread. To rail: To trasport coal used i more tha 50 electric geeratig plats adjacet the Ohio River System, CSX railroad would eed 56 ew locomotives ad 5,66 ew coal cars. The system s average trai velocity would drop by oe-third Hypothetical Case Study: 6.06 Waterways Closure o the Mississippi & Illiois Rivers What would happe if the Mississippi ad Illiois Rivers were shut dow i the viciity of St. Louis? Usig the Federal Highway Admiistratio s HERS_ST model, the Texas Trasportatio Istitute estimated the resultig impacts of shiftig millios of s of cargo from the river system the city s already crowded Iterstate arteries. Traffic delays would icrease by almost Ijuries ad fatalities o Iterstates would icrease by Maiteace costs would icrease by All trasport modes work hard prevet accidets, huma errors ad other causes of spills, icludig groudigs i the case of barge trasportatio. Overall, spill rates are very low with trucks losig oly 6.06 gallos per oe millio miles, rail cars oly 3.86 gallos ad barges 3.6 gallos per oe millio -miles. 70 trucks,050 Large Semi Tracr-Trailers Uits Carry 27,500 Barrels of Liquid Cargo A loaded tak 27,500 barrels of gasolie, eough keep about 2,500 aumobiles ruig for a etire year. The emissio compariso betwee ilad wig, rail ad truck trasportatio shows that fewer air pollutats are geerated by movig products o America s ilad avigatio system. These pollutats iclude: Particulate matter () Hydrocarbos () rail cars 44 trucks Movig Forward, Savig Eergy Carbo mooxide () Nitroge oxides () Emissios (Grams/To-mile) While a permaet river shutdow caot be aticipated, this case study demostrates that the loss of river trasportatio would have a dramatic egative impact. 6 rail cars Ilad waterways trasport geerates fewer emissios tha rail or truck. % % % 45% 36 80% 93% Truck traffic o St. Louis roadways would icrease by Ilad waterways trasport moves hazardous materials safely. Esurig Cleaer Air Assumig that cost-effective roadway improvemets were udertake, the aalysis cocluded that highway costs over 0 years would icrease from $345 millio over $72 millio. Protectig Commuities Spills of more tha,000 gallos Creative: Howell Creative Group Rate of Spills i Gallos per Millio To-miles Oe Commo Barge Tow Carries the Load of Hudreds of Rail Cars or Trucks A typical cargo barge moves much more cargo tha a sigle truck or rail car. Safety-related statistics for all modes of freight trasportatio show oe ijury i the ilad marie secr for every 25.2 i the rail secr ad 2,7.5 i the highway secr, ad oe fatality i the ilad marie secr for every 22.7 i the rail secr ad i the highway secr. A Costly Sceario: Movig Freight Efficietly Throughout America Safeguardig Our Health ad the Eviromet Easig Rail ad Highway Cogestio i Our Commuities Advatages of Ilad Waterways Trasport: Advatages of Ilad Waterways Trasport: America s Waterways: = Particulate matter = Hydrocarbos = Carbo mooxide = Nitroge oxides Trasportig freight by water is the most eergy-efficiet choice. The most eergy-efficiet way move commodities such as coal, grai, iro, steel, aggregates, petroleum ad chemical products is use 576 the atio s avigable rivers. Barges ca move oe of cargo 576 miles per gallo 43 of fuel. A rail car would move the same of cargo 43 miles, ad a truck oly miles. To-miles Traveled per Gallo of Fuel

5 A Ilad Marie Highway for Freight America s ilad river barge system moves freight more safely ad more efficietly tha rail or truck. It is a key compoet of the trasportatio etwork ad essetial our coutry s ecoomic stregth. Coectig our commuities The ilad waterways system icludes about 2,000 miles of commercially avigable chaels ad some 240 lock sites. America s ilad marie highways move commerce ad from 38 states throughout the atio s heartlad ad Pacific Northwest, serve idustrial ad agricultural ceters ad facilitate imports ad exports at gateway ports o the Gulf Coast. Movig the atio s commodities Waterways trasport more tha 60% of the atio s grai exports, about 22% of domestic petroleum ad petroleum products ad 20% of the coal used i electricity geeratio. Barges are ideal for haulig bulk commodities ad movig oversized or overweight equipmet. Coal Iro & Steel Chemicals Petroleum Grai Aggregates Project Cargoes Itermodal Cotaiers America s Waterways Are Ready Meet Growig Demads Except for a few cogested locks scheduled for replacemet, our avigable ilad waterways system has a abudace of uused capacity. Waterways will trasport the bulk commodities eeded day ad morrow while also movig a icreasig share of itermodal cargo i the years come. By relievig growig trasportatio cogestio with the least impact of ay surface mode o air quality, public safety ad the eviromet, waterways really are our trasportatio solutio for the future. This brochure summarizes the study titled A Modal Compariso of Freight Trasportatio Effects o the Geeral Public by the Texas Trasportatio Istitute, Ceter for Ports ad Waterways. It was coducted over a oe-year period ad was peer-reviewed by idepedet uiversity-based experts. For the full report, visit our website: Stregtheig our ecoomy Every year, roughly 624 millio s of waterbore cargo trasit the ilad waterways, a volume equal about 4% of all itercity freight ad valued at early $70 billio. Mieapolis / St. Paul Portlad Chicago Pittsburgh The missio of the Natioal Waterways Foudatio is develop the itellectual ad factual argumets for a efficiet, well-fuded ad secure ilad waterways system. The Foudatio eeds your support. To fid out how get ivolved, lear how your orgaizatio ca beefit from the foudatio s research, or make a tax-deductible doatio, please call or visit our website. Waterways: Workig for America St. Louis Tulsa Waterways trasportatio keeps commerce o the move, with fewer societal impacts tha truck or rail. This study was co-sposored by the U.S. Departmet of Trasportatio Maritime Admiistratio (MARAD). Hous Mobile New Orleas Corpus Christi Highlights of A Modal Compariso of Freight Trasportatio Effects o the Geeral Public Natioal Waterways Foudatio 80 North Quicy Street, Suite 200, Arlig,Virgiia NWF@vesselalliace.com A study by the Texas Trasportatio Istitute, Ceter for Ports ad Waterways 2008 Natioal Waterways Foudatio

6 A Ilad Marie Highway for Freight America s ilad river barge system moves freight more safely ad more efficietly tha rail or truck. It is a key compoet of the trasportatio etwork ad essetial our coutry s ecoomic stregth. Coectig our commuities The ilad waterways system icludes about 2,000 miles of commercially avigable chaels ad some 240 lock sites. America s ilad marie highways move commerce ad from 38 states throughout the atio s heartlad ad Pacific Northwest, serve idustrial ad agricultural ceters ad facilitate imports ad exports at gateway ports o the Gulf Coast. Movig the atio s commodities Waterways trasport more tha 60% of the atio s grai exports, about 22% of domestic petroleum ad petroleum products ad 20% of the coal used i electricity geeratio. Barges are ideal for haulig bulk commodities ad movig oversized or overweight equipmet. Coal Iro & Steel Chemicals Petroleum Grai Aggregates Project Cargoes Itermodal Cotaiers America s Waterways Are Ready Meet Growig Demads Except for a few cogested locks scheduled for replacemet, our avigable ilad waterways system has a abudace of uused capacity. Waterways will trasport the bulk commodities eeded day ad morrow while also movig a icreasig share of itermodal cargo i the years come. By relievig growig trasportatio cogestio with the least impact of ay surface mode o air quality, public safety ad the eviromet, waterways really are our trasportatio solutio for the future. This brochure summarizes the study titled A Modal Compariso of Freight Trasportatio Effects o the Geeral Public by the Texas Trasportatio Istitute, Ceter for Ports ad Waterways. It was coducted over a oe-year period ad was peer-reviewed by idepedet uiversity-based experts. For the full report, visit our website: Stregtheig our ecoomy Every year, roughly 624 millio s of waterbore cargo trasit the ilad waterways, a volume equal about 4% of all itercity freight ad valued at early $70 billio. Mieapolis / St. Paul Portlad Chicago Pittsburgh The missio of the Natioal Waterways Foudatio is develop the itellectual ad factual argumets for a efficiet, well-fuded ad secure ilad waterways system. The Foudatio eeds your support. To fid out how get ivolved, lear how your orgaizatio ca beefit from the foudatio s research, or make a tax-deductible doatio, please call or visit our website. Waterways: Workig for America St. Louis Tulsa Waterways trasportatio keeps commerce o the move, with fewer societal impacts tha truck or rail. This study was co-sposored by the U.S. Departmet of Trasportatio Maritime Admiistratio (MARAD). Hous Mobile New Orleas Corpus Christi Highlights of A Modal Compariso of Freight Trasportatio Effects o the Geeral Public Natioal Waterways Foudatio 80 North Quicy Street, Suite 200, Arlig,Virgiia NWF@vesselalliace.com A study by the Texas Trasportatio Istitute, Ceter for Ports ad Waterways 2008 Natioal Waterways Foudatio