NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY

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NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY

• Land Grant Institution
• Bio-fuels Efforts
• Multi-disciplined
• Crop/Plant Science
• Engineering
• Economics
• Transportation
• Business

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• About Us
• Established in 1967
• ND Legislature
• Started with 2 Employees
• Now about 45
• University Transportation Center
• Several Programs

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• Centers
• Biennial Strategic Transportation Analysis Center
• Agricultural and Industrial Freight Center
• Advanced Traffic Analysis Center (ATAC)
• DOT Support Center (DOTSC)
• Small Urban Rural Transit Center (SURTC)
• Transportation Learning Network (TLN)
• Transportation Safety Systems Center (TSSC)
• Rural Transportation Safety and Security Center
  (RTSSC)
• Mountain-Plains Consortium (MPC)

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Economic and Environmental Implications of
Alternative Fuel use and Regulations in the
Mountain Plains Region

• Includes the Following States
• ND, SD, MT, CO, UT, WY
• Analysis includes
• Benefit/cost analysis for switching from
  traditional to alternative fuels
• Regional trends and key factors affecting
  alternative fuel usage
• Impacts of alternative fuel policy and the
  effects on transportation sectors
• Transit and municipal fleet case studies

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Study of the Highway Impacts Due to the Location
of Ethanol Facilities

• Specifically focuses on the proposed Ethanol
  Biodiesel plant at Spiritwood, ND which will be
  part of the proposed Spiritwood Energy Park
• 100 MGY Ethanol production
• 35 MGY Biodiesel production
• 50 Megawatt coal electric facility
• Analysis includes
• Estimation of the corn basis change as a result
  of plant location
• Estimation of changes in production due to basis
  change
• Modeling commodity flow using a GIS/Cube network
  analysis
• Estimation of the impacts of the incremental
  traffic on the state, federal, and county systems
  surrounding the proposed facility