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Midwest Regional Rail Initiative Project Notebook
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2004-06-01
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Abstract:The Midwest Regional Rail Initiative was an effort in the early 2000’s to plan for and develop an expanded and improved passenger rail system in the Midwestern United States. Amtrak, Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), and the transportation agencies of nine Midwest states all collaborated on its development. FRA contributed to the cost, in part, by a planning grant under the Next Generation High Speed Rail Program. The 2004 Project Notebook was the final deliverable of this planning effort.
The Project Notebook provides a strategic assessment of a system concept for Midwest Regional Rail, primarily focused on development of a set of interconnected 110-mph shared-use (with freight) rail corridors based on a Chicago Hub, with frequencies generally in the 8-12 daily round trip range. The system would share a common train technology to build economies of scale and would offer joint ticketing for encouraging interconnecting trips between the corridors. An extensive range of issues are addressed including infrastructure and operational requirements, level of travel market demand, financing alternatives, and system-wide costs and benefits. The report also contains a business and implementation plan. A key recommendation of the report was that the Federal government should take a leadership role in developing Chicago-area infrastructure that would be primarily used by intercity trains coming from other States, so Illinois and Indiana would not be unduly burdened by costs for serving interstate passenger travel primarily bound to and from other states.
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