TRB's Transportation Research Record 1785 tracks studies on financially internalizing passenger rail -- generated nonuser benefits, improved spiral geometry for high speed -- speed rail and predicted vehicle response, simulations to evaluate rail sleeper replacement alternatives, and opportunities and challenges in regionalizing the Northeast Corridor. The papers contained in this volume were among those presented at the 81th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in January 2002. For abstracts of the individual papers see C 27583 - C 27591.
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