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https://doi.org/10.3141/1571-24

http://scholar.google.com...dger&publication_year=1997

Right-of-way (ROW) preservation is one of the 15 factors of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, but scant attention is paid to prioritizing which corridors to preserve. In light of increasingly scarce planning, operating, and capital resources, as well as high expectations for the expansion of rail services, transit operators and other decision makers need a tool to priority rank the preservation of abandoned rail corridors. The NJ Transit rail ROW study responded to a state legislative mandate to identify, analyze, and priority rank abandoned rail corridors for preservation and possible service expansion. A methodology to screen out unusable rail ROW is developed, and the remaining ROW is ranked in terms of its initial potential to generate transit ridership. NJ Transit staff completed an inventory of all active and known abandoned rail lines within New Jersey. The ROW was passed through successive screens that eliminated ROW with "fatal flaws" (environmental sensitivity, major development encroachments, etc.) and ROW that would provide redundant transit service. The remaining ROW was ranked in terms of the number of journey-to-work (JTW) trips to likely rail destinations, JTW trips per mile, and household density in communities that the ROW serves. This preliminary investigation of ROW identified its potential suitability for various modes of transportation as well as intermodal opportunities.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1571, Public Transit 1997: Bus, Paratransit, Intermodal, and Rail.

English

p. 187-194

1997

Transportation Research Record

0309061512

Figures (1) ; Tables (2)

Abandonment; Inventory; Preservation; Ratings; Right of way (Land); Strategic planning; Transportation corridors

New Jersey Transit

Railroad corridors

Freight Transportation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Terminals and Facilities

TRIS, TRB

Oct 3 1997 12:00AM

• ACHIEVING SUBURBAN TRANSIT POTENTIAL: SACRAMENTO REVISITED
• AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, PARATRANSIT, AND DIALYSIS
• APPLICATION OF INDUSTRIAL STANDARDS TO BUS MAINTENANCE PROCEDURES
• BLAMING THE VICTORS: CHARACTERISTICS OF PUBLIC TRANSIT VEHICLE OPERATORS INVOLVED IN ON-BOARD ALTERCATIONS
• BUS PERFORMANCE INDICATORS: ON-TIME PERFORMANCE AND SERVICE REGULARITY
• COST AND PRODUCTIVITY IMPACTS OF A "SMART" PARATRANSIT SYSTEM
• DEVELOPMENT OF PROPOSED MYRTLE-WYCKOFF INTERMODAL FACILITY
• DIESEL LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT: NICHE DESCRIPTION AND RATING SYSTEM
• EFFECTS OF BUS STOP DESIGN ON SUBURBAN ARTERIAL OPERATIONS
• FORECASTING DEMAND FOR PARATRANSIT REQUIRED BY THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT
• INTEGRATED TIMED TRANSFER: A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE
• INTEGRATION OF PARATRANSIT AND TRANSIT SERVICES: IMPORTANCE OF VEHICLE TRANSFER REQUIREMENTS TO CONSUMERS
• ITERATIVE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION: A MODEL OF SUCCESSFUL SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE TECHNOLOGY DEPLOYMENT
• LOADGEN: NJ TRANSIT'S RIDERSHIP ALLOCATION MODEL
• NEW VEHICLE OPTIONS FOR LOWER-COST RAIL MOBILITY: USING DIESEL OR DUAL-POWERED LIGHT RAIL CARS AS A TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY
• NJ TRANSIT'S RAIL COACH PURCHASE: LETTING THE CUSTOMERS CHOOSE
• PARATRANSIT CUSTOMER: MODELING ELEMENTS OF SATISFACTION WITH SERVICE
• PERFORMANCE IMPACTS OF OPERATING SUBSIDIES IN THE PARATRANSIT SECTOR
• PRODUCTIVITY FREQUENCY INDEX
• PUBLIC DECISION MAKING FOR THE CALTRAIN DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO EXTENSION PROJECT
• RAIL IN MULTIMODAL TRANSIT SYSTEMS: CONCEPT FOR IMPROVING URBAN MOBILITY BY INCREASING CHOICES FOR TRAVEL AND LIFESTYLE
• RAIL TRANSIT IN THE SUBURBS: CASE STUDY OF TRANSIT USE IN ATLANTA'S AFFLUENT NORTHERN TIER
• REDISCOVERING THE URBAN RAILROAD
• TRIP ASSIGNMENT MODEL FOR TIMED-TRANSFER TRANSIT SYSTEMS
• WE CAN'T HEAR YOU! SAN DIEGO'S TECHNIQUES FOR GETTING BALANCED COMMUNITY INPUT IN MAJOR INVESTMENT STUDIES