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Emerging Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. High-Speed Rail Development

Emerging Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. High-Speed Rail Development

Francis P. Banko, Jackson H. Xue
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 35
ISBN13: 9781522552109|ISBN10: 1522552103|EISBN13: 9781522552116
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5210-9.ch044
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Banko, Francis P., and Jackson H. Xue. "Emerging Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. High-Speed Rail Development." Intelligent Transportation and Planning: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 996-1030. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5210-9.ch044

APA

Banko, F. P. & Xue, J. H. (2018). Emerging Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. High-Speed Rail Development. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Intelligent Transportation and Planning: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice (pp. 996-1030). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5210-9.ch044

Chicago

Banko, Francis P., and Jackson H. Xue. "Emerging Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. High-Speed Rail Development." In Intelligent Transportation and Planning: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 996-1030. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5210-9.ch044

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Abstract

As we witness the advancement of U.S. high-speed rail initiatives, the country can look towards its European and Asian counterparts for best practices and lessons learned from their decades of high-speed rail design and operations. These experiences gained may be applicable towards projects such as the Texas Central Railway and the California High-Speed Rail Project. This chapter will address the events of 2009 that have brought domestic high-speed rail to the forefront of U.S. rail transportation. This includes the new FRA Tier I and proposed Tier III criteria, challenges associated with each FRA tier of operation, overseas interoperability efforts, snapshots of international experiences (from policy and technological perspectives), the holistic system-based approach to safety, ongoing efforts of the FRA Engineering Task Force, and additional challenges and opportunities moving forward.

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