1. NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY Land Grant Institution Bio-fuels Efforts  Multi-disciplined  Crop/Plant Science  Engineering  Economics  Transportation  Business

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

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

4. 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

5. 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