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Title: RAILROADS IN THE CITY: OVERLOOKED RAIL TRANSIT OPPORTUNITIES
Accession Number: 00820029
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: Transportation officials today are under pressure to deliver attractive rail transit at affordable prices. Although rail rights-of-way are often the least costly on a unit basis, planners frequently prefer other alignments that can better serve major origins and destinations. Yet occasionally rights-of-way built for railroads connect major activity centers with one another. In these cases, using rail alignments offers the dual benefits of economy and effective service to markets. A survey examines four existing and two proposed operations that link the region's largest downtown with at least two other major destinations within, or adjacent to, the central city along rail rights-of-way. These systems cover a full range of operating technologies and metropolitan sizes. The opportunities for using railroad rights-of-way to provide rail transit between major urban activity centers are not widespread and vary widely from city to city. Nevertheless, some possibilities do exist, and their potential has yet to be fully tapped.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1762, Transit Rail, Commuter Rail, Major Activity Center Circulation Systems, Light Rail, and Ferry Service.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Allen, J GPagination: p. 1-7
Publication Date: 2001
Serial: ISBN: 0309072239
Features: References
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TRT Terms: Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Nov 20 2001 12:00AM
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