Shared use of railroad infrastructure with noncompliant public transit rail vehicles : a practitioner's guide.

Author(s)
Booz Allen Hamilton Jacobs Edwards & Kelcey ICF Consulting & New Jersey Institute of Technology
Year
Abstract

This report includes a business case for the shared use of non-Federal Railroad Administration FRA-compliant public transit rail vehicles (e.g., light rail vehicles) with freight operations and offers a suggested business model for such shared-use operations. The guide also identifies the advantages and disadvantages of shared-use operations and the issues and barriers that can arise in the course of implementation. The guide includes a section that identifies and evaluates available and emerging technology, operating procedures, and techniques that could be used to minimize the risks associated with sharing of track between non-FRA-compliant public transit rail vehicles and freight railroad operations. Finally, the guide includes descriptions and sources of realworld examples of these applications. This guide will be helpful to transit managers, transit operations planners, transportation consultants, state safety oversight agencies, and federal rail and transit oversight agencies. (Author/publisher)

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Library number
20090228 ST [electronic version only]
Source

Washington, D.C., National Research Council NRC, Transportation Research Board TRB / National Academy Press, 2009, 109 p., ref.; Transit Cooperative Research Program TCRP Report 130, Project A-27 - ISSN 1073-4872 / ISBN 978-0-309-11769-2

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