Introduction

Welcome to the Marine Highways Cooperative's Public Benefits Calculator. This free tool, primarily aimed at urban planners, allows a user to enter some simple data to understand the benefits that might be realized from including water based transport in a complete inter-modal freight transport plan. The tool also has the capability to show interested freight industry users the potential benefits incorporating water into the complete intermodal freight move.

The Marine Highways Cooperative's (MHC) public benefits calculator helps users to understand an efficient and sustainable way to move freight, realizing additional societal and environmental benefits from reduced congestion, emissions (per ton-mile), and even reduced energy use (per ton-mile).

You only need basic trip information to provide estimates of benefits; the tool also allows you to enter more advanced factors, if you wish, to improve the accuracy of the calculation.

The calculator uses a number of parameters to calculate your total savings. By default, the Marine Highways Calculator uses standard generalized values for these parameters, based on industry averages and Government guidelines.

Disclaimer: Whilst the Marine Highways Cooperative and AECOM have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of the information supplied within the tool, the tool is only intended to provide an indication of the potential benefits that might be accrued by using each mode of cargo transport. Before making a final decision about which mode is most appropriate in your situation, we recommend undertaking a detailed investigation of each of the options.

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