Intercity passenger rail Amtrak needs to improve its decisionmaking process for its route and service proposals.

Intercity passenger rail Amtrak needs to improve its decisionmaking process for its route and service proposals.

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Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 45

ISBN-13: 1428945105

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The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) is the nation's intercity passenger rail operator. In recent years, facing the continuing deterioration of its financial condition and its attempt to eliminate its need for federal operating assistance by December 2002, Amtrak undertook a number of actions intended to improve its financial condition. Among these actions were changes in its routes and services. Starting in 1995, Amtrak began reducing service and eliminating routes to reduce costs, although this strategy was ultimately unsuccessful. In December 1999, Amtrak's board of directors shifted its route and service strategy toward planning to implement new routes and expand services (called the Network Growth Strategy) on the freight railroad tracks over which Amtrak operates. It estimated that this expansion, involving 15 routes, would yield about $66 million in net financial benefits through fiscal year 2002, primarily from expanding its mail and express business, and help Amtrak move toward operational self-sufficiency.


Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into Operations and Planning Modeling Tools

Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into Operations and Planning Modeling Tools

Author: Hani S. Mahmassani, Jiwon Kim, Ying Chen, Yannis Stogios, Andy Brijmohan, and Peter Vovsha

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

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Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0309274508

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This report from the second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2), which is administered by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, explores the underlying conceptual foundations of travel modeling and traffic simulation, and provides practical means of generating realistic reliability performance measures using network simulation models.


Travel Demand Forecasting: Parameters and Techniques

Travel Demand Forecasting: Parameters and Techniques

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Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 0309214009

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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 716: Travel Demand Forecasting: Parameters and Techniques provides guidelines on travel demand forecasting procedures and their application for helping to solve common transportation problems.


Dynamics and Stochasticity in Transportation Systems

Dynamics and Stochasticity in Transportation Systems

Author: Giulio Cantarella

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Published: 2019-11

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 0128143533

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Dynamics and Stochasticity in Transportation Systems: Solutions for Transportation Network Modeling breaks new ground on the topics, providing consistent and comprehensive coverage of steady state equilibrium and dynamic assignment within a common strategy. The book details the most recent advances in network assignment, including day-to-day and within-day dynamics, providing a solid foundation to help transportation planners solve transient overload and other problems. Users will find a book that fills the gap in knowledge with its description on how to use and employ the latest dynamic network models for evaluation of traffic and transport demand interventions. This book demystifies the many different dynamic traffic assignment approaches and requires no previous knowledge on the part of the reader. All results are fully described and proven, thus eliminating the need to seek out other references. The skills described will appeal to transportation professionals, researchers and graduate students alike. Presents a consistent and comprehensive theory on steady state equilibrium assignment and day-to-day dynamic assignment models within a common framework Describes and solves modeling calculations in detail, with no need to reference other sources Includes numerical and graphical examples, text boxes and summaries at the end of each chapter to help readers better understand theoretical components Includes primary mathematical tools necessary for each dynamic model, easing comprehension


Effective Approaches to Meeting Rural Intercity Bus Transportation Needs

Effective Approaches to Meeting Rural Intercity Bus Transportation Needs

Author: KFH Group

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 0309067634

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This report presents results of research conducted under Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Project B-21, "Effective Approaches to Meeting Rural Intercity Bus Transportation Needs." The project identified strategies for initiating, preserving, and enhancing effective rural intercity bus transportation. To identify recent projects and to identify barriers or issues affecting implementation, the research effort included surveys of state rural transit program managers, state rail program managers, and intercity bus carriers. The report includes three parts. Part I contains a review of recent developments affecting the intercity bus industry, an overview of potential funding sources, and a review of barriers to implementation of rural intercity projects. Part II provides strategies for rural intercity service improvements, including methods of identifying intercity carriers and services, planning, program development, operating assistance, capital assistance, marketing assistance, and combining approaches. Each strategy is described, and implementation examples are presented. Part III presents 50 project descriptions based on additional survey interviews with project contacts.


Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Transport Economics and Policy

Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Transport Economics and Policy

Author: Chris Nash

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2015-09-25

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 0857937936

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Transport economics and policy analysis is a field which has seen major advances in methodology in recent decades, covering issues such as estimating cost functions, modelling of demand, dealing with externalities, examining industry ownership and structure, pricing and investment decisions and measuring economic impacts. This Handbook contains reviews of all these methods, with an emphasis on practical applications, commissioned from an international cast of experts in the field.


Toolkit for Estimating Demand for Rural Intercity Bus Services

Toolkit for Estimating Demand for Rural Intercity Bus Services

Author: Frederic D. Fravel

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 030921338X

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TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 147: Toolkit for Estimating Demand for Rural Intercity Bus Services provides a sketch-planning guide and supporting CD-ROM–based tools that can be used to forecast demand for rural intercity bus services.