Commuter Rail
Commuter Rail

Author: United States Government Accountability Office

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-10-19

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9781978410138

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Commuter Rail: Information and Guidance Could Help Facilitate Commuter and Freight Rail Access Negotiations

Commuter Rail
Commuter Rail

Author: U S Government Accountability Office (G

Publisher: BiblioGov

Published: 2013-06

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9781289124601

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The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.

Shared Use of Railroad Infrastructure with Noncompliant Public Transit Rail Vehicles
Shared Use of Railroad Infrastructure with Noncompliant Public Transit Rail Vehicles

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Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 0309117690

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Over the past decade, highway and urban congestion have garnered the attention of commuters as well as government entities. Facility joint-use, by expanding public transit using existing rail corridors, is one approach to solving the constellation of problems occurring as offshoots of congestion. The potential and feasibility of shared use of rail corridors, between light rail vehicles (associated with public transit) and freight railroads, to function compatibly are still being investigated, even as current "near shared-track" operations are evolving.

Commuter Rail
Commuter Rail

Author: U.s. Government Accountability Office

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-08-05

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9781974265060

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" Studies have estimated that transit travel demand between New Jersey and Manhattan will increase by 38 percent by 2030. The Access to the Region's Core commuter rail project was designed to help meet that rising demand. In October 2010, the governor of New Jersey, citing potential cost growth and the state's fiscal condition, withdrew state support and cancelled the project. The New Jersey Transit (NJT) was the lead agency for the project, supported by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (Port Authority). The project was to be partially funded under the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) New Starts program. GAO was asked to examine (1) what would have been the mobility, economic, and environmental benefits of the project according to major planning studies; (2) the project cost estimates over time; and (3) how, if at all, documents prepared as part of the New Starts process addressed potential cost growth for the project. GAO reviewed the literature and major project planning studies, FTA reports, and economic and cost estimates by NJT and other planning organizations. GAO interviewed officials from FTA, state and local transit agencies, and local planning organizations. GAO is making no recommendations in this report. The Department of Transportation provided technical comments, which GAO incorporated in the report."