Kansas rail feasibility study

Details

• Corporate Creators:
  Tera, inc. ; Kansas. Dept. of Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Feasibility Analysis High Speed Ground Transportaiton High Speed Ground Transportation Passenger Traffic Planning Railroads Railroads And States
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Executive report
• Corporate Publisher:
  Transportation Economics and Management Systems, Inc.
• Abstract:
  Intercity passenger transportation in Kansas, as in other Midwest states, is facing enormous
  
  challenges resulting from rapidly changing market forces. These challenges include the
  
  increasing environmental and capital costs of investment in highway systems, the loss or
  
  increasing cost of air services for many cities as a result of air deregulation, and the
  
  increasing competition for the limited funding available for transport investment. The
  
  existing rail infrastructure within many states, including Kansas, has enormous capacity and
  
  may provide an alternative passenger transportation system that would provide value and
  
  utility to riders and support and encourage growth to the economy, businesses and
  
  communities in the State of Kansas. To evaluate the potential that the rail system in the State of Kansas might offer in expanding passenger rail service, the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) commissioned Transportation Economics & Management Systems (TEMS), in association with Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB), to carry out a feasibility study.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:80e8158a57ad0a8b6c511ac37ba6ab381ee7656125f9fc2264bd77a03c313c973e45df63d097fb3fc7cc75c3454aec44aca0ff8e385aa306d2771783b0f5fcef
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/18112/dot_18112_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.96 MB ]