Description and application of a comprehensive planning procedure for urban railroad relocation. Paper presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board TRB, Washington, January 1975.

Relocation for consolidation of railroad facilities in urban areas offers a potential for achieves significant benefits from eliminating delays and accidents at grade crossings, environmental degration near the railroad, and social and economic barriers and from improving the efficiency of railroad operations. This paper describes a planning procedure and guidebook to provide a framework for developing and analyzing the costs and benefits of alternatives.