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<div class="meta"> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-body"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">The two higher-speed through tracks of any given Steel Interstate route should be able to easily handle a minimum of 200 trains per day, allowing passenger and domestic intermodal freight trains to operate in complete transparency from conventional and local trains. Without capacity and speed
constraints, urban planners should be able to mainstream rail into the planning process to serve most travel markets.</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Reach of intercity passenger rail on the North American Steel Interstate System</span>:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span class="Applestyle-span" style="font-weight: normal;">> About 90% of the US population will be accessed, including;</span></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span class="Applestyle-span" style="font-weight: normal;">> 85% or more of Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA = 50,000> population);</span></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span class="Applestyle-span" style="font-weight: normal;">> Double the currently served Smallvilles, many with little or no bus and air services.</span></strong></span></p> <p><a href="/node/101" target="_blank">MSAs by population</a><br /> <a href="/sites/default/files/MSAs by city name.pdf">MSAs by city</a></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; fontweight: bold;">Passenger train operating characteristics on the North American Steel Interstate System</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-stylespan"><span class="Apple-style-span"><font class="Apple-stylespan"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">> 70 mph minimum <em>average speed </em>for all schedules</span></font></span></font></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-stylespan"><span class="Apple-style-span"><font class="Apple-stylespan"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">> Major travel markets will be city pairs within a 3-4 hour travel radius (210-300 miles);</span></font></span></font></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-stylespan"><span class="Apple-style-span"><font class="Apple-stylespan"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">> Passenger trains will comprise 40% of Steel Interstate capacity, on average.</span></font></span></font></span></p> <div> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; fontweight: bold;">Station characteristics for the North American Steel Interstate System</span></p>
<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; fontweight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="fontweight: normal;">> <span style="font-size: 14px;"> Stations will be located on auxiliary tracks to expedite through traffic;</span></span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; fontweight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="fontweight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">> Stations will be designed for fast boarding/detraining to minimize dwell times—</span></span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; fontweight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="fontweight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> typically 90 seconds;</span></span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; fontweight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="fontweight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">> Stations will rely primarily on efficient regional transit for access;</span></span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; fontweight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="fontweight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">> In populous regions, intercity passenger trains will access multimodal hub “travel ports”;</span></span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; fontweight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="fontweight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">> Every MSA intercity passenger rail station will handle a <u>minimum</u> of 20 round trip </span></span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; fontweight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="fontweight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> passenger trains per day.</span></span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; fontweight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="fontweight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">> Every community that had robust passenger train service in the early 20th century </span></span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; fontweight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="fontweight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> will have population-proportional
passenger rail services in the 21st century.</span></span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; fontweight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="fontweight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">> Existing stations will require restoration and modernization, or;</span></span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; fontweight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="fontweight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">> New, larger, more task-appropriate stations may need to be built. </span></span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; fontweight: bold;">Passenger rail services menu on the Steel Interstate System</span></p> </div> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">> Express trains in high population density markets</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">> High Speed Rail service extensions on high<em><u>er</u></em>speed routes</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">> Conventional intercity passenger trains</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">> Special events, charter and peak-travel trains</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">> Regional and commuter trains</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">> Emergency response trains</span></span></p> <h1><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-stylespan" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold;">Steel Interstate Rail Passenger Development Background</span></span></span></h1> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;">The conceptual map of the North American Steel Interstate System is a work in progress. The Department of Defense initially deemed a 36,000 route-mile network as nationally significant for traditional rail freight movement. The National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP)
has identified a 45,000-mile <a href="http://www.narprail.org/cms/index.php/resources/list/C50/" ><em>Grid and Gateway</em></a> network of upgraded rail lines to enable intercity passenger trains to <em>serve </em>over 90 % of the US population. </span></p> <p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/map.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 325px;" /><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/map_proposed.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 325px;" /></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;">In 2007 the Passenger Rail Working Group (PRWG) of the congressionally mandated National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission issued its report,<a href="http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/projects/state/docs/prwgreport.pdf"> <em>Vision for the future - </em><em>U.S. intercity passenger rail network through 2050</em></a>. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;">Like NARP’s <em>Grid & Gateway </em>passenger rail development plan, the PRWG report proposes upgrading a network of existing mainline railroads to be compatibly shared by intercity passenger and freight trains. The network has fewer route miles than the full Steel Interstate network because of a passenger-only focus.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>Service </em>is the operative word for intercity passenger rail. The existing passenger rail network <em>reaches </em>about 80% of the Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA=50,000 pop. or more). To say that passenger rail <em>serves </em>these 174 million people is a stretch.<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title="">[1]</a> Much of the passenger rail network in North America shares the privately owned tracks of the for-profit railroad companies, which are maintained for long, heavy, slow(er) freight trains traveling long distances. It is the freight railroads’ business strategy to operate the most freight trains on the smallest network. The end result for passenger rail services has been a skeletal system where most communities on long distance routes see only one round-trip train per day and some of the largest cities, including Phoenix (pop. 1,567,924) and three others with over 1 million people, have no passenger rail service at all.<a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title="">[2]</a> Existing services are made more irrelevant by these trains visiting many stations in the middle of the night or at less than daily frequencies, or both. Truth be told, all of Amtrak’s locomotives and most passenger cars are certified to travel at 110 MPH or better, if only upgraded infrastructure would permit. Such squandered
technological capability is the result of highway-centric transportation policies of the past half-century.</span></p> <div><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <div id="ftn1"> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title="">[1]</a> Ohlemeier, D., <a href="http://www.trainweb.org/moksrail/documents/pop/pop_article .htm">Amtrak's America: A look at how well Amtrak serves America's cities</a>,</span></p> </div> <div id="ftn2"> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title="">[2]</a> Ibid</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/It's the infrastructure_0.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 312px;" /></p> <p> </p> <p align="left"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><em>Expanding </em>intercity</strong><strong > passenger service will spearhead the rail development movement in North America.</strong></span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Most of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) rail grants are being directed at existing “freight railroad” corridors to bring their eventual top speed up to 110 MPH, which is defined as “Emerging High Speed Rail.” These corridors saw more and faster trains (both passenger and freight) in the past and they represent segments of the <em>high<u>er</u> speed</em><em> rail </em>(HrSR) Steel Interstate System to be upgraded to uniform design standards for 21<sup>st</sup> century responsibilities.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The final route miles of the North American Steel Interstate System will likely be closer to the 45,000-mile network needed for passenger rail operations. Freight shippers will eagerly take advantage of the extra capacity and speeds of the larger upgraded NASIS network.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Transportation planning, like electricity, seeks the path of least resistance, resulting in most capacity improvements going into the modes over which the public has more control and funding mechanisms. The North American Steel Interstate System creates a new framework and <em>culture </em>for developing rail in the 21<sup>st</sup> century, as did the Eisenhower Interstate and Defense Highway System in the 20<sup>th</sup> century.</span></p> <p align="left"> </p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><strong>Distinguishing High Speed Rail (HSR) from Higher Speed Rail (HrSR)</strong></span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Compared to the geographic reach of the high<strong><em>er</em></strong>-speed rail Steel Interstate System, there are much fewer places that true high-speed rail needs to go. </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/map_highspeedcorridor.jpg" style="width: 475px; height: 363px;" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap;">High<u>er</u> Speed Rail (Steel Interstate) High Speed Rail </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">> Track speed 79 mph – 110 mph > Track speed above 115 MPH, ideally above 150 mph</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">> Upgraded, shared-use, existing > Dedicated, scratch-built, passenger-only RoW</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> mainline railroad right-ofway (RoW) > Very high design and maintenance standards</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">> Lower level of design and less > Electrification essential</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> precise maintenance standards > Market reach: the densest mega-regions where </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">> Electrification desirable but not travel volume justifies</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> essential</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">> Market reach: most of North America</span></span></span></p> <p align="left" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"> </p> <p align="left"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: nowrap;">The urban planners at America 2050 have identified a slightly different network for passenger rail </span></span></span></span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: nowrap;">development, based more closely on demographics. </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: nowrap;"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/Trans-Am pssngr map.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 310px;" /></span></p> <p align="left" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="fontsize: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: nowrap;">More importantly, America 2050 shows how public policies can connect the whole nation with a </span></span></p> <p align="left" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="fontsize: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: nowrap;">seamless, multimodal surface transportation system.</span></span></p> <p align="left" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"> </p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: nowrap;"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/Multi-modal Connectivity.jpg" style="width: 475px; height: 407px;" /></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="white-space: nowrap;">Both higher and high-speed passenger rail will shoulder additional responsibilities as the costs of </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: nowrap;">flying escalate.</span></span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="item-list"><h3></h3><ul><li class="first last"><a href="/sites/default/files/MSAs%20by%20city%20name.pdf">MSAs by city name.pdf (PDF, 70.13 KB)</a></li> </ul></div> </div> </div> <!-- /.node --> </div>
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