High‐Speed Rail Feasibility Study Business Plan - Appendices

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• Corporate Creators:
  Transportation Economics & Management Systems, Inc (TEMS) ; Quandel Consultants, LLC ; GBSM, Inc
• Corporate Contributors:
  Rocky Mountain Rail Authority
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Business Models Feasibility Analysis High Speed Rail Rail Transit
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Right Statement:
  Public Domain
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Rocky Mountain Rail Authority
• Abstract:
  The appendices to the High-Speed Rail Feasibility Study provide the technical, institutional, and public-involvement documentation supporting the Rocky Mountain Rail Authority’s 2010 business plan. Organized in thirteen sections, they include RMRA membership by jurisdiction; the COMPASS™ travel-demand model; zone and socioeconomic data; stated-preference survey instruments; detailed capital-cost schematics; regional unit-price and escalation analysis; rail tunnel evaluation; I-70 grade comparisons; a Colorado Springs alignment option; AGS technology performance criteria; an assessment of novel technologies; train schedules for the FRA Developed Option; and documentation of the public involvement process.
  
  A substantial portion of the appendix volume documents the study’s analytical framework. The COMPASS™ model is presented as a multimodal forecasting system calibrated for business, commuter, tourist, and social trips, with separate treatment of long- and short-distance travel and incremental “pivot point” forecasting used to preserve observed travel patterns. The appendices also supply the underlying zone system, socioeconomic inputs, and survey forms used to estimate values of time, frequency, reliability, and modal choice behavior. The engineering and alternatives appendices expand the study’s treatment of infrastructure cost and route performance. They include detailed segment-level capital-cost schematics, unit-price assumptions, tunnel evaluation, I-70 4 percent versus 7 percent grade comparisons, and a possible Colorado Springs alignment variation. In the I-70 analysis, the appendices emphasize that the purpose of the study was to identify feasible alternatives for future NEPA review rather than to select a final optimal route or technology, and they conclude that either the Pando or Vail Pass alternatives could remain under consideration.
  
  The appendices also address technology screening and implementation support. They include I-70 Coalition performance criteria for AGS concepts, a critique of “novel” or low-cost-guideway technologies, schedules for the FRA Developed Option, and documentation of corridor workshops and stakeholder consultation. In its discussion of novel technologies, the appendix states that both the I-70 PEIS and the RMRA business plan found rail less expensive than maglev while offering similar performance, reinforcing the report’s emphasis on feasible rather than speculative solutions.
  
  
• Content Notes:
  Cite as: Transportation Economics & Management Systems, Inc., Quandel Consultants, LLC, & GBSM, Inc. (2010, March). High-speed rail feasibility study: Business plan—Appendices. Rocky Mountain Rail Authority.
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  Transportation Resilience and Vulnerability Collection Federal Aviation Administration
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