Download or read book Amtrak Authorization and Rail Passenger Corridor Development written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation, and Tourism and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Amtrak Authorization and Rail Passenger Corridor Development written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation, and Tourism and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Amtrak Authorization and Rail Passenger Corridor Development written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation, and Tourism and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Should Amtrak Develop High speed Corridor Service Outside the Northeast written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Intercity Passenger Rail written by Jayetta Z. Hecker and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, facing the continuing deterioration of its financial condition and its attempt to eliminate its need for federal operating assistance by Dec. 2002, the Nat. Railroad Passenger Corp. (Amtrak) undertook a number of actions intended to improve its financial condition., including planning to implement new routes and expand services (called the Network Growth Strategy) on the freight railroad tracks over which Amtrak operates. This report examines: (1) the status of the Network Growth Strategy, (2) Amtrak's estimates of expected mail and express revenue, and (3) Amtrak's success in obtaining freight railroads' agreement to allow it to expand service over their tracks. Charts, tables and map.

Download or read book Intercity Passenger Rail written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Intercity Passenger Rail written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Intercity Passenger Rail written by Phyllis F. Scheinberg and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Intercity passenger rail Amtrak s management of northeast corridor improvements demonstrates need for applying best practices report to the Chairman Committee on Commerce Science and Transportation U S Senate written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Intercity passenger rail issues for consideration in developing an intercity passenger rail policy written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Amtrak Authorization written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Amtrak Authorization written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Future of Intercity Passenger Rail Service and Amtrak written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Transportation written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) were to extend its northeast corridor to 16 other corridors, the following would be anticipated: (1) improved and more convenient services to the public through greater train speed and better on-time performance; (2) lower deficits through increased ridership; (3) improved energy conservation through the public's greater use of the energy-efficient train; (4) lower air pollution as fewer people use their automobiles; (5) employment resulting from the labor-intensive railroad operation; (6) preservation of some railroad rights-of-way in and between urban areas; and (7) maintenance of a mode of transportation that can be converted away from oil in a crisis. Congress must decide whether these possible benefits justify the high cost associated with establishing and maintaining corridor rail service. The anticipated benefits from developing high-speed corridors outside the northeast may not be available or worth the cost. Greater speed and better on-time service could reasonably be expected to result, but increased ridership and lowered deficits probably would not result. Ridership on Amtrak has increased primarily because more trains were available, but load factors have not increased and losses continue. Amtrak cannot expect substantial increases in ridership in the proposed corridors unless one of the other transportation modes is disrupted. Amtrak officials believe that implementing the corridor concept outside the Northeast would be very costly. Amtrak's prospects for improving its finances by either increasing revenues or reducing costs are bleak. Only Congress can make the judgments and tradeoffs necessary to determine the value of the benefits that would result from such services and the proper level of the federal subsidy.

Download or read book The Past and Future of U S Passenger Rail Service written by Elizabeth Pinkston and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2003 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Amtrak's current situation -- A brief history of Amtrak -- Amtrak's role in intercity transportation -- The basic economics of passenger rail -- Policy options for the future of passenger rail -- Appendix. Amtrak's interconnections with freight and commuter railroads.

Download or read book Guidebook for Implementing Passenger Rail Service on Shared Passenger and Freight Corridors written by Alan J. Bing and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2010 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Guidebook will aid states in developing public-private partnerships with private freight railroads to permit operation of passenger services over shared-use rail corridors. The Guidebook should encourage the broad acceptance of improved principles, processes, and methods to support agreements on access, allocation of operation and maintenance costs, capacity allocation, operational issues, future responsibilities for infrastructure improvements, and other fundamental issues that will affect the ultimate success of shared-use passenger and freight agreements between public and private railroad stakeholders.

Download or read book Background on Amtrak written by Amtrak and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: