Highway Transportation
The county is situated by two interstates, two US routes, and eight state routes. The region's transportation network places the county within one day's truck drive (500 miles) of 60 percent of the U.S population. Over 900 interstate common motor freight carriers and 29 freight forwarders serve the Greater Cincinnati region.

Dearborn County Transportation Network
Interstates	US Routes	State Routes
I-74	US 50	IN 1
I-275	US 52	IN 46
I-71		IN 48
I-75		IN 56
I-471		IN 62
		IN 148
		IN 262
		IN 350

Source: Dearborn County Plan Commission

 

Click Here: Dearborn County Traffic Count Map (2001)

Click Here: US 50 Traffic Counts (2006 & Projections)

 

Rail Transportation
Dearborn County's freight service is provided by two railroads, CSX and Central Railroad of Indiana. CSX is an international transportation company offering rail, containerized-shipping, intermodal transportation, and trucking and contract logistics. The company operates 21,000 route miles in 23 states, the District of Columbia, and two Canadian provinces. CSX operates 1,700 miles of track and handles 175,000 carloads of freight annually within the State of Indiana. Central Railroad of Indiana is a subsidiary of Rail America, the largest short line holding company in America. Rail America operates 43 short line and regional railroads nationwide with 8,800 miles of track in 26 states and six Canadian provinces. This company specializes in freight and bulk freight rail service, which includes dimensional shipping for large shipments.

Passenger service is provided by Amtrak through the Union Terminal in Cincinnati. Eastbound and westbound service is provided three days a week from New York to Chicago: eastbound trains leave the terminal Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday while westbound trains leave the terminal Monday, Thursday, and Saturday.

Inland Port
The Port of Cincinnati is the fifth largest inland port in the United States ranked by trip ton-miles, with 11,828,259 tons of freight passing through it in 2003. The port extends 30 miles along both sides of the Ohio River, with a maintained channel depth of 9 feet.

Commodity	Total Tons Shipped
Coal	3,235
Petroleum and Petroleum Products	2,101
Chemicals and Related products	1,747
Crude Materials (inedible,except fuels)	2,221
Primary Manufactured Goods	1,575
Total Food and Farm Products	946
Manufactured Equipment, Machinery and Products	3

Source: U.S Army Corps of Engineers Navigation Data Center, Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center

Public Ohio River Terminals in the Greater Cincinnati region include:

• Consolidated Grain & Barge, Aurora, IN
• Dravo Basio Materials Co., Cincinnati, OH
• Queen City Terminals, Inc., Cincinnati, OH
• Noramco Terminals Corp., Cincinnati, OH
• Cincinnati Bulk Terminal, Cincinnati, OH
• Port of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
• Ashland Petroleum Co., Cincinnati, OH
• Boswell Oil Co., Cincinnati, OH

Table 14: Dearborn County Transportation