Economic Impact of the GIWW on the States It Serves

Data set and report with data descriptions and outputs, "Economic Impact of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway on the States It Serves".  The purpose of the report was to examine the economic impact of the GIWW on the five states it serves: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. This project involved several research tasks. First, researchers estimated the economic impact of the GIWW by looking specifically at the impact of the commodities using the GIWW in the relevant coastal counties in each of these five states. Once this task was completed, researchers then estimated the impact of the GIWW on other modes, modeling the possible adverse impacts that would result if the GIWW were to become permanently unavailable and shippers would instead have to use the next economically feasible transportation mode. Researchers examined the cost of shifting additional traffic to other modes of transportation.