John Hennessy III,
P.E.
REASON FOUNDATION Executive Summary This report compares the cost and environmental impact of passenger trips taken on scheduled Amtrak trains to trips taken to the same destinations on existing scheduled intercity motorcoaches. Amtrak currently operates over 300 trains per day on 43 different routes. These routes connect more than 500 cities and towns in 46 […]
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Accessible MTS from Will Suto on Vimeo. Produced in association with the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System and Accessible San Diego.
View this complete post...Strategically deployed at stations throughout the Amtrak system, the Amtrak Police K-9 Unit is trained to detect threats from explosives. These teams undergo an 11-week training program where the conventional bomb dogs are taught odor recognition. Some of these dogs continue their training to become Vapor Wake Detection Canines, where they are trained to alert […]
View this complete post...–mtainfo on YouTube. From the New York Transit Museum archives, a 1981 documentary about the workers who make “A” train service possible. A production of the New York State Museum. New York Transit Museum: http://www.mta.info/museumNew York State Museum: http://www.nysm.nysed.gov
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After the tragic explosions of a runaway train carrying crude oil in Canada’s Lac Megantic community, the US Pacific Northwest must look more closely at its own burgeoning oil-by-rail developments. In the first comprehensive look at all of the currently operating and proposed projects, Sightline Institute’s Eric de Place adds up just exactly what the Northwest faces as the region invites the same oil trains that devastated Lac Megantic into its own backyards.
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Salt Lake City: A Conservative State Builds Progressive Transit from Streetfilms on Vimeo. According to Congress for New Urbanism President John Norquist, the Salt Lake City area has the fastest growing rail system in America. And as Streetsblog’s Angie Schmitt pointed out last month, “It’s the only city in the country building light rail, bus […]
View this complete post...Testifying before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials on June 27, 2013, FRA Administrator Joe Szabo made the case for creating a new Rail Account within the Transportation Trust Fund to ensure a predictable and sustainable federal funding source for development projects.
View this complete post...An extensive experimental program investigating the concrete crosstie and fastening system behavior was executed in July 2012 at the Transportation Technology Center (TTC). The program recorded loads, strains, and displacements of the track components under passenger consists traveling at speeds of 2-102mph, freight consists with car weights ranging from 263-315kips, and static responses from a […]
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