California's “Fast-Track” to High-Speed Rail

2016 ◽  
pp. 15-32
Author(s):  
Rod Diridon Sr. ◽  
Ben Tripousis
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
State Funding ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
High Speed Trains ◽  
Private Investors

For over 50 years, after both public and private studies confirmed California's need for high-speed rail, nothing happened. The rest of the US had a similarly disappointing experience when attempting to break into the rapidly growing family of nations with operating high-speed trains. Yet, over the past year, California has contracted over $2.5 billion in high-speed rail civil work, is preparing RFPs for three times that amount, and has secured commitments for nearly $25 billion in additional federal and state funding over the next 30 years. Private investors are lining up for the nation's first high-speed rail public-private partnership to complete this $68 billion, 540 mile project. This chapter describes the unprecedented technical excellence, political courage, and visionary voter support that created that high-speed rail breakthrough for California and the nation.

California's “Fast-Track” to High-Speed Rail

2020 ◽  
pp. 1013-1026
Author(s):  
Rod Diridon Sr. ◽  
Ben Tripousis
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
State Funding ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
High Speed Trains ◽  
Private Investors

For over 50 years, after both public and private studies confirmed California's need for high-speed rail, nothing happened. The rest of the US had a similarly disappointing experience when attempting to break into the rapidly growing family of nations with operating high-speed trains. Yet, over the past year, California has contracted over $2.5 billion in high-speed rail civil work, is preparing RFPs for three times that amount, and has secured commitments for nearly $25 billion in additional federal and state funding over the next 30 years. Private investors are lining up for the nation's first high-speed rail public-private partnership to complete this $68 billion, 540 mile project. This chapter describes the unprecedented technical excellence, political courage, and visionary voter support that created that high-speed rail breakthrough for California and the nation.

Sino-Japan Aid War and India’s Role: Possibilities for ‘Win-Win-Win’

China Report ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-308
Author(s):  
Takeshi Daimon-Sato
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Good Reason ◽  
Fragile States ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Strategic Partner ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
The Past ◽  
Western Asia ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Common Interests

For the past decade, China and Japan have been competing against each other over aid market with its implicit intention to pursue their economic interests, which turned into a rivalry between two diplomatic concepts: Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) versus Japanese Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) Strategy. The severe competition over high-speed rail (HSR) by two countries, joined by French and German competitors, has been intensified for the benefit of China, taking all of its catchup benefits with its dubious sense of rule of law. This article asks if the two initiatives can coexist with the entry of India into the game and form an equilibrium of ‘grand coalition’, benefiting all its players as ‘win-win-win’ game, which turns out to be feasible and unstable. Nevertheless, Japan still seems to have a good reason to keep India as a strategic partner of FOIP as well as a ‘gateway’ for Central and Western Asia with fragile states such as Afghanistan and Pakistan, and official development assistance (ODA) could play a significant catalyst role as ‘human security’ promoted by Professor Amartya Sen and ex-UNHCR Ms. Sadako Ogata. The COVID-19 pandemic together with the exit of the isolationist US administration may provide the world with glimmering sense of hope for the year 2021 and beyond, if and only if one becomes more aware of the complementarities of comparative advantage of China, India and Japan to pursue common interests.

scholarly journals Infrastructure costs and benefits of European high-speed rail

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-53
Author(s):  
Nedžad Branković ◽  
Aida Kalem
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Operational Parameters ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Railway Network ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Rail Network ◽  
High Speed Trains ◽  
Conventional Rail ◽  
Ecologically Sustainable

The development of new technologies has significantly influenced railways modernization and has caused the appearance of high-speed rail which represent a safe, comfortable and ecologically sustainable way of transportation. The high-speed rail present a big step in a relation to conventional railways, where the biggest difference is speed which even entails a change of other organizational and operational parameters, better utilization of trains, higher performance of manpower and better service to users.  That is visible in many cities around the world where high-speed trains are used by billions of users. In the EU there is no unique high-speed railway network, besides that in many EU member countries various operational models are applied. The future of the high-speed railways market depends on political, economical and technical factors and challenges as high infrastructure costs, various rates of return on investment and the negative effects of economic crises. The main objective of the paper is to analyze infrastucture costs of high-speed rail in Europe and benefits such us  time savings, higher reliability, comfort, safety, reducing pollution and the release of capacity in the conventional rail network, roads and airport infrastructure.

Fostering Public-Private Partnership

2020 ◽  
pp. 237-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasaki Ponnusamy ◽  
N. Z. Jhanjhi ◽  
Mamoona Humayun
Keyword(s):  
Developing Nations ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Digital Infrastructure ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government

This chapter intends to provide a review of cooperation between public and private sectors towards cybersecurity governance. With the partnership, government can have confidence towards the safety and protection of their national critical digital infrastructure. The goal of this chapter is achieved by analyzing some of the cybersecurity frameworks adopted by the developed and developing nations. The analysis is further carried out by investigating the public-private policy initiatives in their national cybersecurity framework. The chapter also investigates the effectiveness of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (NIST) adopted by the US government.

Critical Logistics Support Enables Fast Track Construction for High Speed Rail

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Blaze ◽  
Jay Gowan ◽  
Stephen Byers
Keyword(s):  
Construction Management ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Economic Advantage ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Operational Costs ◽  
Construction Zones ◽  
Made In

Paper and PowerPoint presentation format will describe process for much faster logistics and construction management of new high speed track construction and improvement of existing FRA track from FRA Class 4 to Class 5 and Class 6 standards on existing freight railway lines. This process involves an integration of the long materials supply chain together with rapid process state of the art construction machines. These machines have been used in both European and Chinese high speed construction projects. Huge gains in new track kilometers and miles per day have been made in the last decade on the machinery side of the equation. The authors will show several case studies. The critical key to these production rates has been in the integration of materials ordering and prepositioning. The economic advantage is that track time construction windows that delay other passing trains can be reduced at tremendous savings in service and operational costs to the operators already providing service in these new high speed corridors and construction zones. Examples and calculations are shown.

scholarly journals The Effect of Pendolino high-speed rail on the structure of buildings located in the proximity of railway tracks

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-238
Author(s):  
K. Grębowski ◽  
Z. Ulman
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Analysis ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Building Structure ◽  
High Speed Train ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Railway Tracks ◽  
High Speed Trains ◽  
Railway System ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The following research focuses on the dynamic analysis of impact of the high-speed train induced vibrations on the structures located near railway tracks. The office complex chosen as the subject of calculations is located in the northern part of Poland, in Gdańsk, in the proximity of Pendolino, the high speed train route. The high speed trains are the response for the growing needs for a more efficient railway system. However, with a higher speed of the train, the railway induced vibrations might cause more harmful resonance in the structures of the nearby buildings. The damage severity depends on many factors such as the duration of said resonance and the presence of additional loads. The studies and analyses helped to determinate the method of evaluating the impact of railway induced vibrations on any building structure. The dynamic analysis presented in the research is an example of a method which allows an effective calculation of the impact of vibrations via SOFISTIK program.

CREATING LIVABLE INFRASTRUCTURE: THE CONNECTOAKLAND VISION TO RECONNECT NEIGHBORHOODS AND CONNECT CITIES THROUGH FREEWAY REMOVAL

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Andrew Faulkner ◽  
Jonathan Fearn ◽  
Chris Sensenig ◽  
Brian Stokle
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Transportation Corridor ◽  
The Us

INTRODUCTION Throughout the second half of the 20th Century, our nation's cities were marred by the onslaught of unsustainable suburbanization and the expansion of limited access highways that ripped through urban centers and divided communities within them. Paired with systematic disinvestment from redlining and white flight, these forces combined to create lasting physical, social and economic hardships in cities across the US. Over the last 20 years, cities have rebounded in America and new patterns of thought focused on livability, walkability and urban form have started to sprout: from the Big-Dig in Boston to Octavia Boulevard and the Embarcadero in San Francisco, cities are reassessing the value of highways that solely move automobiles through cities, and have started to focus on how these pieces of infrastructure impact the daily lives and economic interests of a their residents and visitors. In Oakland, California, through the efforts of ConnectOAKLAND, the city is taking up the mantle of this new pattern of thought and is beginning the planning process to reconnect West Oakland to Downtown by transforming an underutilized freeway (I-980) into a multi-modal transportation corridor that reestablishes the historic urban grid. The project's dual benefit will reconnect two of Oakland's historic neighborhoods while better connecting Oakland along with the entire East Bay to San Francisco, San Jose and Silicon Valley through the incorporation of a second transbay tunnel for Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), commuter rail (Caltrain), and high speed rail (HSR). This article will explore the ConnectOAKLAND vision for I-980 as a case study for current and future patterns of highway removal, and as a part of the national movement to rethink the role of urban highways and holistically re-envision the US transportation infrastructure.

scholarly journals Tourist tongues: High-speed rail carries linguistic and cultural urbanisation beyond the city limits in Guangxi, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Grey
Keyword(s):  
Social Distance ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Mobile Capital ◽  
High Speed Trains ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Places ◽  
Local Languages

AbstractThis article builds upon research which analyses the reconstruction of cities in China as an integral part of image-making discourses competing to attract mobile capital. It extends that literature beyond urban places to urbanisation processes, examining the material and linguistic features of networks and discourses of new high-speed rail infrastructure Guangxi, a poorer, rural, multilingual and multiethnic region of the People’s Republic of China (China) in which tourism – propelled by high-speed trains – has become a pillar of economic development. It argues that these trains produce symbolically powerful discourses which contribute to cultural urbanisation across Guangxi, emplacing urban norms outside city limits in pursuit of profitable sameness, as tourism does not trade only upon difference. Local multilingualism, specifically, is erased as too different, a barrier to tourists’ (and tourism capital’s) mobility. Amongst other ramifications, this reproduces social distance and ideologically displaces local languages.

scholarly journals Passenger Aviation and High Speed Rail: A Comparison of Emissions Profiles on Selected European Routes

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Prussi ◽  
Laura Lonza
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Transport System ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
High Speed Trains

Air transport has been constantly growing and forecasts seem to confirm the trend; the resulting environmental impact is relevant, both at local and at global scale. In this paper, data from various datasets have been integrated to assess the environmental impact of modal substitution with high speed rail. Six intra-EU28 routes and a domestic route have been defined for comparison. The airports have been chosen considering the share of the total number of passengers on flights to/from other EU Member States. Three scenarios have been proposed in the time period 2017–2025; aircraft types, distance bands, and occupancy rate are investigated on each scenario. The comparison with HSR service has been carried out only on passenger service and not for freight. The energy consumption and the consequent emissions for the aircraft have been estimated on the base of the available data for the mix of aircraft types, performing the routes. The results indicate the advantage of the high speed trains, in terms of direct CO2eq emissions per passenger km. Compared to a neutral scenario, with an annual passenger increment of 3.5%, the HSR substitution of the 5% and the 25% of this increment allow a GHG saving of 4% and 20%, respectively. Some of the analysed routes (e.g., Frankfurt Main–Paris CDG) have interesting GHG savings but the duration of the trip today is limiting for a real substitution. Moreover, there is general agreement that the extreme weather events induced by climate change will affect the functioning of the European transport system. In this sense, transportation by the rail mode is expected to play a significant role in strengthening the EU transport system, its resilience, and its reliability, as it is less immediately subject to the impacts of severe weather conditions.

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