Exploratory Analysis for Locations of an All-Season Access Corridor Through Northwest Territories' Slave Geological Province for Natural Resource Mining Transportation Using Least Cost Analysis

• Main Author: Katrina Mavrou
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Traffic and highway engineering; Highway engineering > Cold weather conditions; Highway engineering > Northwest Territories; Delivery of goods > Northwest Territories; Climatic changes > Northwest Territories; Frozen ground > Northwest Territories; Roads > Design and construction > Environmental aspects > Northwest Territories; Canada; Northwest Territories; The Corridor
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.32920/ryerson.14667909.v1; https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Exploratory_Analysis_for_Locations_of_an_All-Season_Access_Corridor_Through_Northwest_Territories_Slave_Geological_Province_for_Natural_Resource_Mining_Transportation_Using_Least_Cost_Analysis/14667909

This paper examines the preliminary development plan for the Slave Geological Province Access Corridor project, and evaluates the identified criteria and constraints referring to economic, environmental and social sustainability. The corridor project was first introduced in the 1970’s, and in March...