Shared use of railroad infrastructure with noncompliant public transit rail vehicles : a practitioner's guide / Booz Allen Hamilton ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Booz Allen Hamilton.

National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board.

Transit Cooperative Research Program.

United States. Federal Transit Administration.

Transit Development Corporation.

Series:

Report (Transit Cooperative Research Program) ; 130.

TCRP report, 1073-4872 ; 130

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Street-railroads--United States.

Street-railroads.

Railroad tracks.

Railroads--Right of way.

Railroads--Right of way--Multiple use.

United States.

Railroads--Right of way--Multiple use--United States.

Railroads.

Local transit--United States.

Local transit.

Railroads--Right of way--United States.

Railroad tracks--United States.

Physical Description:

109 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Transportation Research Board, 2009.

Summary:

Over the past decade, highway and urban congestion have garnered the attention of commuters as well as government entities. Facility joint-use, by expanding public transit using existing rail corridors, is one approach to solving the constellation of problems occurring as offshoots of congestion. The potential and feasibility of shared use of rail corridors, between light rail vehicles (associated with public transit) and freight railroads, to function compatibly are still being investigated, even as current "near shared-track" operations are evolving.

Notes:

At head of title: Transit Cooperative Research Program.

"Research sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration in cooperation with the Transit Development Corporation."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-86).

ISBN:

9780309117692

0309117690

OCLC:

312753333