Download or read book Understanding the Cost Drivers of Passenger Rail written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the cost drivers of passenger rail : hearing before the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, May 21, 2013.
Download or read book Understanding the Cost Drivers of Passenger Rail written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding the Cost Drivers of Passenger Rail written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Summary on the Activities of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure for the Congress written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and published by . This book was released on with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Download or read book Congressional Record Daily Digest of the 113th Congress First Session Volume 159 Part 15 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rediscovering Republicanism written by John Nantz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When well-designed institutions function properly, people thrive. Few institutions have been more ingeniously designed than the U.S. federal government via the Constitution in 1787. This auspicious beginning more than two centuries ago helps explain why the U.S. remains a magnet for opportunity seekers, students, entrepreneurs, dissidents, and persecuted believers. Yet for decades now, America’s federal government has been underperforming. Social Security and Medicare face looming insolvency. The federal government’s “war on poverty” has failed to “end poverty” and arguably made it worse. In 2012, the United States Postal Service lost more money than the nation spent on the State Department, and Amtrak has lost money every year since being created in 1971. How can an enduring institution, so thoughtfully crafted, now produce such poor results? The federal government has grown so much because it serves a new and different vision, American Progressivism. American Progressives believed that democratically elected, public-minded federal politicians and employees could use federal programs to solve the nation’s greatest problems in a way no other American institution could. This idea justified the federal government’s massive expansion: today, the federal government runs over 1,500 programs and employs over 5% of the U.S. workforce. Yet federal results do not match Progressive expectations. Three key problems – “windfall politics”, “the government surcharge”, and “complexity failure” – overlooked by American Progressives explain the federal government’s consistent failures. American Progressive’s rosy-eyed view of human nature and political institutions have not been borne out by the evidence. In an era of substantial political fermentation and debate, rediscovering and re-applying American Republicanism represents the best path forward for the United States. The federal government should retain many necessary responsibilities but turn over those where it has failed – for social welfare, federally provided services, and retirement savings among others – to the country’s state governments, civil society, and individual citizens respectively.
Download or read book Legislative Calendar written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transportation by Rail written by Thomas Mann Randolph Talcott and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Increasing passenger rail capacity written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report points out that the Department for Transport's latest plans for increasing rail capacity would not deliver as much extra capacity as originally specified, although the taxpayer would have provided nearly as much financial support (£1.2 billion over the period 2009-14) to train companies as originally envisaged. Value for money is also at risk because costs, particularly of rail carriages, have risen at the same time as the recession has reduced the Department's projections of demand. Against this background, the Department has reviewed each individual scheme before entering into contract to ensure that it still offers value for money. By March 2010, the Department had secured use of 526 extra carriages, with a further 106 ordered and due to be ready for operation by 2012. Capacity is now expected for 99,000 extra passengers into London in the morning peak (between 07:00 and 09:59), 15 per cent fewer than originally envisaged, and 25,500 extra passengers into other English cities, 33 per cent fewer. Passenger Transport Executives in the North of England - local government bodies responsible for the public transport in major cities - feel that their expectations for increased capacity in their area have not been met. In 2007 the DfT published a thirty-year strategy which set aside £9 billion for capacity increases. Within this, £7 billion was allocated to Network Rail. The Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) scrutinised Network Rail's plans to but the level of cost detail available to ORR restricts its ability to judge or evaluate.
Download or read book Worth Beyond Mobility written by Brianna Goodman and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Option and non-use values of public transportation are perceived benefits accrued by residents who have access to the transit system, even if they do not use it. Previous studies have identified non-use value gained from a range of sources, including mobility for non-drivers, aiding economic vitality, and environmental sustainability. This study examines data from a 2014 Passenger Rail Feasibility Study survey of both prospective users and non-users of a proposed rail transit system in Santa Cruz, California. This study employs a mixed effect analysis of variance model to identify which option and non-use values are held by individuals who do not intend to use a proposed rail transit system but do think that the system would have a positive benefit for the community overall. This study is unique in examining individual types of non-use value, rather than consolidating them into a single value during data collection. All 11 option and non-use variables modeled were found to be significantly associated with overall views of the proposed system. In particular, respondents who think the system would be good for the county were more likely to place importance on the possibility that the proposed rail system would improve their ability to continue driving their personal vehicle. Key non-use value results include reducing the number of cars on the road, expanding mobility options for visitors, or reducing the need for additional parking and road expansion. These findings indicate that public transit systems have the ability to generate a variety of non-use benefits to the community at large that are not captured by current cost-benefit analysis calculations.
Download or read book Financial Performance of Non Urban Passenger Rail Services written by Paul Amos and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Securing America s Passenger rail Systems written by Jeremy M. Wilson and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. communities depend on reliable, safe, and secure rail systems. Each weekday, more than 12 million passengers take to U.S. railways. Recent attacks on passenger-rail systems around the world highlight the vulnerability of rail travel and the importance of rail security for these passengers. The use of passenger rail and the frequency with which terrorists target it call for a commitment to analyzing and improving rail security in the United States. This book explains a framework for security planners and policymakers to use to guide cost-effective rail-security planning, specifically for the risk of terrorism. Risk is a function of threat (presence of terrorists with intent, weapons, and capability to attack), vulnerability (likelihood of damage at a target, given an attack), and consequences (nature and scale of damages if an attack succeeds). While effective security solutions may address all three components of risk, this book focuses on addressing vulnerabilities and limiting consequences, since these are the two components of risk most within the realm of rail-security personnel. The analysis is based on a notional rail system that characterizes rail systems typically found in the United States. The methodology presented is useful for planning rail-security options.
Download or read book The Economic Theory of the Location of Railways written by Arthur Mellen Wellington and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Southern Pacific Passenger Trains written by Brian Solomon and published by . This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shared Use of Railroad Infrastructure with Noncompliant Public Transit Rail Vehicles written by and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2009 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Moving Intercity Passenger Rail Into the Future written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
