NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY Land Grant Institution Bio-fuels Efforts

Multi-disciplined Crop/Plant Science Engineering Economics Transportation Business

About Us Established in 1967

ND Legislature Started with 2 Employees Now about 45 University Transportation Center Several Programs

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)

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

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