High Speed Rail in the Midwest
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9780961435806
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With application to the Chicago-St. Louis, Chicago-Detroit and Chicago-Milwaukee corridors.
Author:
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9780961435806
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With application to the Chicago-St. Louis, Chicago-Detroit and Chicago-Milwaukee corridors.
Author: Thomas Lynch
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 1998-04-01
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9789056996055
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An in-depth evaluation of high speed rail systems & their linkage to other transportation modes in the US.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Selladurai, Raj
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2016-05-04
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1522501037
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The increasingly busy lives of people in modern society cause a high dependence on the transportation sector. Traffic congestion, road maintenance, and a myriad of other problems have led stakeholders to seriously examine alternatives to traditional road traveling. Emerging Challenges and Opportunities of High Speed Rail Development on Business and Society is an authoritative reference source on the promising aspects of high speed railway transportation to supplement road travel. Highlighting empirical research, implementations plans, and future opportunities, this book is ideally designed for government officials, researchers, upper-level students, and technology developers working in the field of transportation.
Author: Susan A. Fleming
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2010-10
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 1437935192
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) and subsequent appropriations have dramatically increased federal funds available for high speed intercity passenger rail from $120 million in FY 2008 and FY 2009 combined to $10.5 billion available in FY 2010. Other issues, such as developing industry capacity to supply rail equipment and fostering multiyear public support for such systems must be resolved. This report reviewed: (1) how states started or improved passenger rail services in the recent past; (2) rail industry plans to accommodate the increased passenger rail investments; and (3) Federal Railroad Admin. plans to oversee the use of federal intercity passenger rail funds. Charts and tables.
Author: Jonathan Barnett
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2020-03-12
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1642830437
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As the US population grows—potentially adding more than 110 million people by 2050—cities and their suburbs will continue expanding, eventually meeting the suburbs of neighboring cities and forming continuous urban megaregions. There are now at least a dozen megaregions in the US, such as the one extending from Richmond, Virginia, to Portland, Maine, and the megaregion that runs from Santa Barbara through Los Angeles and San Diego, down to the Mexican border. In Designing the Megaregion, planning and urban design expert Jonathan Barnett takes a fresh look at designing megaregions. Barnett argues that planning megaregions requires ecological literacy and a renewed commitment to social equity in order to address the increasing pressure this growth puts on natural, built, and human resources. If current trends continue, new construction in megaregions will put additional stress on natural resources, make highway gridlock and airline delays much worse, and cause each region to become more separate and unequal. Barnett offers an incremental approach to designing at the megaregional scale that will help prepare for future economic and population growth. Designing the Megaregion explains how we can, and should, redesign megaregional growth using mostly private investment, without having to wait for large-scale, government initiatives and trying to create whole new governmental structures. Barnett explains practical initiatives for adapting development in response to a changing climate, improving transportation systems, and redirecting the forces that make megaregions very unequal places. There is an urgent need to begin designing megaregions, and Barnett offers a hopeful way forward using systems that are already in place.
Author: Richard Gilbert
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 1849773459
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight without Oil sets out the challenges to our growing dependence on transport fuelled by low-priced oil. These challenges include an early peak in world oil production and profound climate change resulting in part from oil use. It proposes responses to ensure effective, secure movement of people and goods in ways that make the best use of renewable sources of energy while minimizing environmental impacts.Transport Revolutions synthesizes engineering, economics, environment, organization, policy and technology, and draws extensively on current data to present important conclusions. The authors argue that land transport in the first half of the 21st century will feature at least two revolutions. One will involve the use of electric drives rather than internal combustion engines. Another will involve powering many of these drives directly from the electric grid - as trains and trolley buses are powered today - rather than from on-board fuel. They go on to discuss marine transport, whose future is less clear, and aviation, which could see the most dramatic breaks from current practice.With its expert analysis of the politics and business of transport, Transport Revolutions is essential reading for professionals and students in transport, energy, town planning and public policy.