Aggregate Quarry Operations?From a Railroad's Perspective
This paper describes a study which shows how a railroad company can ensure receipt of a cost-effective, high-quality aggregate product for ballast by monitoring selected quarry operations....
GIS-Based Applications for Rail Infrastructure Analyses
Computer modeling and analysis techniques are important tools being used to evaluate impacts associated with transporting high-level radioactive waste to the proposed national repository...
Sensitivity Analysis of Financial Forecasts for MBTA Infrastructure Investment Program
This paper describes a financial analysis methodology and model developed for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), which provides comprehensive projections of the relationships...
Overview of Current U.S. HSGT Planning
As an introduction to the subject of high-speed ground transportation (HSGT) and to help put the rest of the conference papers in context, two plenary sessions provided an overview of...
High Speed Transportation for the 21st Century: Florida's High Speed Rail and Maglev Projects
This paper presents a brief status report on the State of Florida high speed ground transportation efforts. It includes a description of the amended high speed transportation act in Florida...
High Speed Ground Transportation: Some Historical Perspectives
The definition of `high speed' ground transportation is relative to the transportation technology of a period. Thus it might be argued that high speed ground transportation began early...
Evaluation of HSGT Systems Under Uncertainty
The basic themes of this paper are two-fold. First we investigate what planning style is likely to be most suited for planning an HSGT system, dependent on three interdependent key variables:...
Carrying Freight on High Speed Rail Lines
Some basic technical aspects of carrying freight on high speed rail lines are presented. To illustrate certain requirements and considerations, performance comparisons are made using three...
Experience in the Planning of High Speed Rail Lines: From Feasibility Studies to the Construction Project
For the construction of a new line for high speed traffic, a series of technical, commercial and economic studies must be carried out for each of the parts of the planning stage: the feasibility...
Towards a `Simple' Long Term Evaluation of HSGT
The author examines, analyzes, and pursues the roots of several fundamental economic and related theories and techniques commonly used to determine technological performance, its measurement...
Establishing a HSGT System Organization
Most of the attention on High Speed Ground Transportation systems thus far has been devoted to their technological, financial and construction aspects, and this was understandable since...
High Speed Rail: An Alternative Route to Preserve Quality of Life in the Northwest
The impacts of population growth threaten quality of life in the Pacific Northwest. Existing transportation systems cannot meet projected demand nor special needs of an aging society....
Land Use Planning and HSGT Station Development: The Maglev Grand Terminal/International Drive Experience
In 1996, the Future arrives in Orange County, Florida. It is the ribbon cutting ceremony for the high-tech, high-speed ground transportation magnetic levitation train, connecting the Orlando...
Magnetic Levitation (Maglev) System Integration with Other Urban and Inter-City Transportation Modes
Hypothetical intracity maglev routes are applied to 11 United States metropolitan areas to enhance intermodal passenger transfers at existing bus terminals, metro stops, rail stations,...
High Speed Ground Transportation on U.S. East Coast
The United States has entered into a new era of need for domestic improvement. The demand for high speed transportation far exceeds the supply. The increasing congestion of our roads and...
California-Nevada Superspeed Train Experience and Outlook
The experience of the California-Nevada Superspeed Train is chronicled from its inception in 1970 to the present. The evolution of the route alignment and technology selection are presented,...
The Pittsburgh Maglev Project
MAGLEV, Inc. is a public/private/labor partnership created in response to the ever growing need to provide new transportation solutions to the escalating problem of highway and airport...
The TGV Network and the Environment
The French TGV network construction shows that the conservation of the environment can be managed in a cost-effective way. Different aspects of the environmental impact of the high speed...
Noise from High Speed Maglev Transportation Systems
Noise levels from magnetically levitated trains (maglev) at very high speed may be high enough to cause severe environmental noise impact in residential areas, even without physical contact...
Aesthetics in High Speed Rail Projects
Aesthetics is critical to the public acceptance and quality of the experience of a high-speed rail system. Social, functional, visual, kinetic, and symbolic aesthetics have specific design...
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