Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and TransportationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Future of Intercity Passenger Rail Service and Amtrak
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and TransportationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Waiting on a Train
Author: James McCommonsPublisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603582592
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
During the tumultuous year of 2008--when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California--journalist James McCommons spent a year on America's trains, talking to the people who ride and work the rails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail journeys, Waiting on a Train is equal parts travel narrative, personal memoir, and investigative journalism. Readers meet the historians, railroad executives, transportation officials, politicians, government regulators, railroad lobbyists, and passenger-rail advocates who are rallying around a simple question: Why has the greatest railroad nation in the world turned its back on the very form of transportation that made modern life and mobility possible? Distrust of railroads in the nineteenth century, overregulation in the twentieth, and heavy government subsidies for airports and roads have left the country with a skeletal intercity passenger-rail system. Amtrak has endured for decades, and yet failed to prosper owing to a lack of political and financial support and an uneasy relationship with the big, remaining railroads. While riding the rails, McCommons explores how the country may move passenger rail forward in America--and what role government should play in creating and funding mass-transportation systems. Against the backdrop of the nation's stimulus program, he explores what it will take to build high-speed trains and transportation networks, and when the promise of rail will be realized in America.
The Past and Future of U.S. Passenger Rail Service
Author: Elizabeth PinkstonPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
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.
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.
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428936920
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Intercity passenger rail issues for consideration in developing an intercity passenger rail policy
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428941959
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Amtrak's Future
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation and Related AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Intercity passenger rail Congress faces critical decisions in developing a national policy
Author: JayEtta Z. HeckerPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428945113
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
This testimony discusses the future of intercity passenger rail. Intercity passenger rail in the United States is at a critical juncture. It has become increasingly clear that the current approach to intercity passenger rail is not likely sustainable. Given Amtrak's worsening financial condition and opportunities for intercity passenger rail to play a larger role in our nation s transportation system, there is growing agreement that the mission, funding, and structure of the current approach to providing intercity passenger rail needs to be changed. There is less agreement on how they should be changed. Both longer-term fiscal pressures and the new commitments undertaken after September 11th sharpen the need to look at competing claims and new priorities. Stated differently, there is a need to consider what is the proper role of the federal government in intercity passenger rail.
Intercity Passenger Rail
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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