High-Speed Rail Projects in the United States: Identifying the Elements of Success-Part 2, MTI 06-03

In August 2005, the Mineta Transportation Institute issued the report, High-Speed Rail Projects in the United States: Identifying the Elements for Success. The report noted that since the 1960s, highspeed ground transportation (HSGT) has “held the promise of fast, convenient, and environmentally sound travel for distances between 40 and 600 miles.” After briefly discussing the different experiences with HSGT between the United States and its Asian and European counterparts, the report proceeded to review three U.S. cases—Florida, California, and the Pacific Northwest—as a means for identifying lessons learned for successfully implementing high-speed rail (HSR) in the United States. This report is, in essence, volume 2 of the previous study. Also using a comparative case study approach, this effort adds to the earlier work with three additional cases—the Chicago Hub, the Keystone Corridor, and the Northeast Corridor (NEC). As with the earlier report, the goal of this study is to identify lessons learned for successfully implementing HSR in the United States. Given the early stages of most of these projects, “success” is defined by whether a given HSR project is still actively pursuing development or funding. However, in the case of the Northeast Corridor, a fuller discussion of success is provided since HSR has been implemented on that corridor for some time now

Portland Daily Press: November 08,1871

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The role of short sea shipping and European rail corridors in intermodal freight transportation

This dissertation explores the possibility of combining short sea shipping with European Union rail corridors and inland waterways to carry freight towards regions located away from the coastline. The contributions of this dissertation is the expansion of a network model and the introduction of new transport chains in new areas not cov-ered before. A review of intermodal transport policies in the European Union and of transport cost and transit time models in intermodal transport chains is carried out. A network-based model of intermodal transport chains in the Atlantic façade of Europe is developed, including different combinations of modes of transportation (road, short sea shipping, rail and inland waterways). These models are applied to the quantification of total transport cost, transit time and a combination of both using value of time for creating a generalized transportation cost. Results are presented for transport chains from Porto and Bragança to 75 NUTS 2 regions (Nomenclature of ter-ritorial units for statistics) in northern Europe. The regions for which the different in-termodal combinations are more competitive are identified. Parametric variations of critical transport parameters are carried out, allowing the identification of changes in the scope of regions for which the different intermodal combinations are more com-petitive. The results obtained by the model identify the competitiveness of intermodal so-lutions using short sea shipping rail and inland waterways in the transport of freight. Intermodal solutions prove to be slow when comparing with road haulage, which proves to be cost competitive for certain regions.Esta dissertação explora a possibilidade de combinar o transporte marítimo de curta distância com os corredores ferroviários da União Europeia e vias navegáveis para transportar mercadorias para regiões distantes da costa. As contribuições desta dissertação são a expansão de um modelo de rede e a introdução de novas cadeias de transporte em novas áreas. É efetuada uma revisão das políticas de transporte intermo-dal na União Europeia e dos modelos de custos de transporte e de tempo de trânsito nas cadeias de transporte intermodal. É desenvolvido um modelo baseado em rede de cadeias de transporte intermodal na fachada atlântica da Europa, incluindo diferentes combinações de modos de trans-porte (rodoviário, marítimo de curta distância, ferroviário e vias fluviais). Estes mode-los são aplicados à quantificação do custo total de transporte, tempo de trânsito e uma combinação de ambos utilizando o valor do tempo para a criação de um custo genera-lizado de transporte. São apresentados resultados para cadeias de transporte entre o Porto e Bragança e 75 regiões NUTS 2 (Nomenclatura de unidades territoriais para es-tatísticas) do norte da Europa. São identificadas as regiões para as quais as diferentes combinações intermodais são mais competitivas. São realizadas variações paramétri-cas de parâmetros críticos de transporte, permitindo a identificação de mudanças no escopo de regiões para as quais as diferentes combinações intermodais são mais com-petitivas. Os resultados obtidos pelo modelo identificam a competitividade das soluções intermodais utilizando os modos marítimo, ferroviário e fluvial no transporte de mer-cadorias. As soluções intermodais mostram-se lentas quando comparadas com o trans-porte rodoviário, mas competitivas em termos de custos para determinadas regiões

Portland Daily Press: June 17,1871

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Portland Daily Press: April 17,1886

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Santa Fe New Mexican, 12-27-1902

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Santa Fe New Mexican, 12-21-1904

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Portland Daily Press: March 29,1881

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Santa Fe New Mexican, 12-24-1902

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