TRANS-HUDSON COMMUTING CAPACITY STUDY Appendix A: Interstate Bus Network - Operational and Service Strategies
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GAO-02-398 Intercity Passenger Rail: Amtrak Needs to Improve Its
United States General Accounting Office Report to the Honorable Ron Wyden GAO U.S. Senate April 2002 INTERCITY PASSENGER RAIL Amtrak Needs to Improve Its Decisionmaking Process for Its Route and Service Proposals GAO-02-398 Contents Letter 1 Results in Brief 2 Background 3 Status of the Growth Strategy 6 Amtrak Overestimated Expected Mail and Express Revenue 7 Amtrak Encountered Substantial Difficulties in Expanding Service Over Freight Railroad Tracks 9 Conclusions 13 Recommendation for Executive Action 13 Agency Comments and Our Evaluation 13 Scope and Methodology 16 Appendix I Financial Performance of Amtrak’s Routes, Fiscal Year 2001 18 Appendix II Amtrak Route Actions, January 1995 Through December 2001 20 Appendix III Planned Route and Service Actions Included in the Network Growth Strategy 22 Appendix IV Amtrak’s Process for Evaluating Route and Service Proposals 23 Amtrak’s Consideration of Operating Revenue and Direct Costs 23 Consideration of Capital Costs and Other Financial Issues 24 Appendix V Market-Based Network Analysis Models Used to Estimate Ridership, Revenues, and Costs 26 Models Used to Estimate Ridership and Revenue 26 Models Used to Estimate Costs 27 Page i GAO-02-398 Amtrak’s Route and Service Decisionmaking Appendix VI Comments from the National Railroad Passenger Corporation 28 GAO’s Evaluation 37 Tables Table 1: Status of Network Growth Strategy Route and Service Actions, as of December 31, 2001 7 Table 2: Operating Profit (Loss), Operating Ratio, and Profit (Loss) per Passenger of Each Amtrak Route, Fiscal Year 2001, Ranked by Profit (Loss) 18 Table 3: Planned Network Growth Strategy Route and Service Actions 22 Figure Figure 1: Amtrak’s Route System, as of December 2001 4 Page ii GAO-02-398 Amtrak’s Route and Service Decisionmaking United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 April 12, 2002 The Honorable Ron Wyden United States Senate Dear Senator Wyden: The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) is the nation’s intercity passenger rail operator. -
Highlight / Progress Report
HIGHLIGHT / PROGRESS REPORT PROJECT NAME: Kinloch Road Regeneration Project Manager: Ian Imlah Reporting Period: 28/03/2012 – 15/08/12 Date report prepared: 9 August 2012 Implementation of the Full Business Project stage: Project stage completion date: 31 May 2013 Case Tolerance levels for this stage: Project Plan + / - 15 working days Project budget + / - 10%, or £10,000 whichever is greater Progress – please refer to Project Plan Key products completed this period Key products outstanding this Revised Key products for next reporting Delivery date (including those completed ahead of schedule) period delivery date period (including brief explanation of why product outstanding) New Road Construction Works is underway Agreement on how to progress with 31/12/2012 Delivery of footway works 31 October land adjacent to former council 2012 depot site Detailed Design for Footway Works Completed Delivery of soft landscaping works 31 May 2013 Soft landscaping design agreed with ABC. Contract documents to be finalised and issued for tender. Royal Hotel Footway Works Complete. Risk Management – please refer to Risk Register (updates risks below in bold italic text) o:\a_campbeltown\cn03_kinloch_road\board_papers\l_150812\cn03_highlight_prog_rep_august 2012.doc Budget Management – please refer to Resource Allocation Schedule Total budget available to complete FBC stage: £100,000 Actual expenditure £102,209 Variance explanation if required: Revenue budget now used – Business Case developed and now progressing implementation stage (capital expenditure) Budget approved – implementation of public £2,080,000 realm and soft landscaping works: Actual expenditure to date (as at 31 July 2012) £715,013 Variance explanation if required: Budget approved - ACHA £800,000 Actual expenditure to date (as at 31 July 2012) £0 Variance explanation if required: Any further information Status update on elements: Public Realm - • Public realm associated with the new road has been procured through the road contract. -
40Thanniv Ersary
Spring 2011 • $7 95 FSharing tihe exr periencste of Fastest railways past and present & rsary nive 40th An Things Were Not the Same after May 1, 1971 by George E. Kanary D-Day for Amtrak 5We certainly did not see Turboliners in regular service in Chicago before Amtrak. This train is In mid April, 1971, I was returning from headed for St. Louis in August 1977. —All photos by the author except as noted Seattle, Washington on my favorite train to the Pacific Northwest, the NORTH back into freight service or retire. The what I considered to be an inauspicious COAST LIMITED. For nearly 70 years, friendly stewardess-nurses would find other beginning to the new service. Even the the flagship train of the Northern Pacific employment. The locomotives and cars new name, AMTRAK, was a disappoint - RR, one of the oldest named trains in the would go into the AMTRAK fleet and be ment to me, since I preferred the classier country, had closely followed the route of dispersed country wide, some even winding sounding RAILPAX, which was eliminat - the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804, up running on the other side of the river on ed at nearly the last moment. and was definitely the super scenic way to the Milwaukee Road to the Twin Cities. In addition, wasn’t AMTRAK really Seattle and Portland. My first association That was only one example of the serv - being brought into existence to eliminate with the North Coast Limited dated to ices that would be lost with the advent of the passenger train in America? Didn’t 1948, when I took my first long distance AMTRAK on May 1, 1971. -
Dual-Mode Locomotive Requirements Document
Standardized Technical Specification PRIIA Du a l Mode (DC) Passenger Locomotive Requirements Document Is su e Revis ion 1.3 Adopted by the Executive Board December 6 th, 2011 Copyright 2011 Amtrak All rights reserved Table of Contents 1-1 Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction [Informative] ........................................................................................ 1-2 1.1 PRIIA Mandated Requirements ............................................................................ 1-2 1.1.1 Tech n ica l: ...................................................................................................... 1-2 1.1.2 Process: ......................................................................................................... 1-2 1.2 Operational Considerations ................................................................................. 1-3 1.2.1 Th e Specification to Be Developed .................................................................. 1-3 1.2.2 Passenger Train Access to New York City ........................................................ 1-3 2.0 Requirements [Normative unless otherwise in dica ted] ............................................... 2-1 2.1 Key Requ irem en ts ............................................................................................... 2-1 2.2 Capacity and Locomotive Performance ................................................................. 2-1 2.3 Dimensions, Clearances and Track Geometry....................................................... 2-2 2.3.1 Overall Carbody Dimensions -
BULLETIN - FEBRUARY, 2010 Bulletin New York Division, Electric Railroaders’ Association Vol
TheNEW YORK DIVISION BULLETIN - FEBRUARY, 2010 Bulletin New York Division, Electric Railroaders’ Association Vol. 53, No. 2 February, 2010 The Bulletin NOR’EASTER HITS EASTERN SEABOARD Published by the New Although the “official” start of winter was not boarded a following train that got them to York Division, Electric until Monday, December 21, 2009, the first Ronkonkoma at 8:45 when they were sched- Railroaders’ Association, Incorporated, PO Box major winter storm, a Nor’easter, traveled up uled to arrive at 4:14 AM. Thanks to member 3001, New York, New the eastern seaboard, arriving in the metro- Larry Kiss, who filled in some details. York 10008-3001. politan area Saturday afternoon, December Later that day, at 8:45 PM, service was sus- 19. It continued through Sunday, December pended between Ronkonkoma and Green- 20, dumping up to 26” of snow in eastern port and there were scattered delays on the For general inquiries, contact us at nydiv@ Long Island. Portions of New Jersey also Port Jefferson, Babylon and Montauk erausa.org or by phone received significant amounts. In New York Branches. Traffic reports in the following days at (212) 986-4482 (voice City, approximately 11 inches were recorded also told of minor delays. mail available). The in Central Park, 13.2 inches in Sheepshead Our Editor-in-Chief, Bernie Linder, saw on a Division’s website is www.erausa.org/ Bay, six inches in the Bronx, and only a trace news report on Channel 7 that the lead car of nydiv.html. in Poughkeepsie. Many areas received re- each LIRR MU train, and probably also the cord amounts of snow. -
Bus Driver Fatigue and Stress Issues Study
Bus Driver Fatigue and Stress Issues Study DTGH61-99-Z-00027 Final Report December 8, 1999 Prepared for Mr. Phil Hanley, HMCE-10 Federal Highway Administration Office of Motor Carriers 400 Seventh Street, SW, Room 4432A Washington, DC 20590 Prepared by Arrowhead Space & Telecommunications, Inc. 803 W. Broad Street, Suite 400 Falls Church, VA 22046 (703) 241-2801 voice (703) 241-2802 fax www.arrowheadsat.com Bus Driver Fatigue and Stress Issues Study Table of Contents I. Introduction 1 II. Approach 3 III. Literature Search 6 IV. Video Search 10 V. World Wide Web Search 11 VI. Industry Advisory Panel 32 VII. Federal and State Officials 35 VIII. Focus Group Sessions 36 IX. Identification of Issues from Focus Group Sessions and Phone Survey 39 X. Countermeasures 49 Appendix A: Focus Group and Phone Survey Participants Appendix B:Issues Identified at Focus Group Sessions Appendix C:Travel Industry Focus Group Report Appendix D:Safety Study Performed by Greyhound Lines, Inc. Bus Driver Fatigue and Stress Issues Study Final Report November 18, 1999 I INTRODUCTION Arrowhead Space and Telecommunications, Inc. conducted a research project to identify unique aspects of operations within the motorcoach industry which may produce bus driver fatigue and stress. Funding for and oversight of the study was provided by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Office of Motor Carriers (OMC). The purpose of this study is to (1) identify from direct interaction with motorcoach owners, safety directors, operations managers, and drivers those fatigue-inducing stresses which they believe are unique to the motorcoach industry; (2) evaluate the relative influence of these stresses on bus driver fatigue; (3) provide relevant feedback to the FHWA/OMC for its use in future decisions which will affect the motorcoach industry; and (4) develop an outreach video to help motorcoach drivers understand the effects of fatigue, the stresses that induce it, and means to reduce it. -
U.S. Charter Operations with ATU Contracts
U.S. Charter Operations with ATU Contracts May 2013 Local Nationwide 1700 Greyhound Lines, Inc. (800) 454-2487 [email protected] Georgia 1700 Southeastern Stages, Inc. 260 University Ave., SW Atlanta, GA 30315 (404) 591-2750 [email protected] Maryland 1764 Martz Gold Line / Gray Line 5500 Tuxedo Road Tuxedo, MD 20781 (800) 862-1400 (301) 386-8300 x32 [email protected] Massachusetts 1548 Brush Hill Transportation Co. 435-439 High St. Randolph, MA 02368 (800) 343-1328 [email protected] 1548 Plymouth & Brockton St. Railway Co. 8 Industrial Park Rd. Plymouth, MA 02360 1 (508) 746-0378 x226 [email protected] 1363 & 1512 Peter Pan Bus Lines, Inc. / Bonanza Bus Lines, Inc. P.O. Box 1776 Springfield, MA 01102-1776 (800) 243-9560 (800) 334-6464 (Boston Area) [email protected] Minnesota/Missouri 1498 Jefferson Bus Lines 2100 E. 26th St. Minneapolis, MN 55404 (612) 359-3467 [email protected] [email protected] New Jersey 1317 DeCamp Bus Lines 101 Greenwood Avenue P.O. Box 581 Montclair, NJ 07042 (800) 631-1281 (973) 783-7500 x240, 241, 242 1614 Lakeland Bus Lines, Inc. 425 E. Blackwell St. Dover, NJ 07801 (800) 367-0601 [email protected] 824 Raritan Valley Bus Service P.O. Box 312 Metuchen, NJ 08840 (800) 339-4306 [email protected] New York 1592 Chenango Valley Bus Lines, Inc. 2 Coach USA - Southern Tier/Binghamton (800) 647-6471 [email protected] 1342 Grand Tours 5355 Junction Road Lockport, NY 14094 (800) 847-4887 [email protected] Pennsylvania 1342 Coach USA - Erie 501 East 19th Street Erie, PA 16503 (800) 352-0979 [email protected] [email protected] 1119 Frank Martz Coach Co. -
Road Drainage in This Chapter
Road Drainage In this chapter 01 Introduction 3 02 Design principles 5 2.1 Water sensitive design (WSD) or Integrated Stormwater Management (ISM) 5 2.2 Integration of drainage 6 2.3 Tiered objectives for stormwater management design in road reserves 7 2.4 Major/minor drainage 11 03 Surface water management 12 04 Stormwater management devices 13 4.1 Treatment /Management Options Tool Box 15 4.2 Bio-retention swales, rain gardens and tree pits 16 4.3 Pervious paving 17 4.4 Sand filters, gravel trenches and rain tanks 18 4.5 Ponds and wetlands 18 4.6 Swales and vegetated swales 19 4.7 Soakage pits 20 4.8 Proprietary devices 20 05 Kerbs and channels 20 06 Catchpits 22 6.1 Catchpit location 22 6.2 Catchpit design 23 6.3 Catchpit approved types 25 6.4 Catchpit selection criteria 25 6.5 Catchpit inlet selection 25 6.6 Catchpit leads 26 07 Manholes 27 08 Rural road drainage 27 09 Subsoil drains 29 10 Minor culverts 29 11 Special areas 31 2 TDM | ENGINEERING DESIGN CODE Road drainage & surface water control 01 Introduction PURPOSE This chapter gives guidance for the design of drainage in the road reserve. It specifies limitations on design choices to achieve consistency across the region, while catering for local conditions. It aims to promote efficiency, effectiveness and economy of capital investment and operational management water sensitive design. SCOPE The situations covered include: • Drainage of surface water within road reserves. • Collection, conveyance and treatment of run-off from roads. • Management of stormwater discharging from land onto road reserves. -
3.5: Freight Movement
3.5 Freight Movement 3.5 Freight Movement A. INTRODUCTION This section describes the characteristics of the existing rail freight services and railroad operators in the project area. Also addressed is the relationship between those services and Build Alternative long-term operations. The study area contains several rail freight lines and yards that play key roles in the movement of goods to and from the Port of New York and New Jersey, the largest port on the east coast, as well as in the movement of goods vital to businesses and residents in multiple states. However, no long-term freight movement impacts are anticipated with the Build Alternative, and no mitigation measures will be required. B. SERVICE TYPES The following freight rail services are offered in the project area: • Containerized or “inter-modal” consists primarily of containers or Example of Doublestack Train with Maritime truck trailers moved on rail cars. Containers Intermodal rail traffic is considered the fastest growing rail freight market, and is anticipated to grow in the region between 3.9 and 5.6 percent annually through 2030, based on the NJTPA Freight System Performance Study (see Table 3.5-1). • Carload traffic consists of products that are typically moved in boxcars, hopper cars, tank cars, and special lumber cars over a long distance by rail, and then either transported directly by rail or Example of Carload Rail Traffic shifted to truck for delivery to more local customers. The characteristics of these commodities (e.g., bulk, heavy or over- dimensional) make rail the preferred option for long-distance movement. -
Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) New Jersey
Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) for New Jersey By ORF 467 Transportation Systems Analysis, Fall 2004/05 Princeton University Prof. Alain L. Kornhauser Nkonye Okoh Mathe Y. Mosny Shawn Woodruff Rachel M. Blair Jeffery R Jones James H. Cong Jessica Blankshain Mike Daylamani Diana M. Zakem Darius A Craton Michael R Eber Matthew M Lauria Bradford Lyman M Martin-Easton Robert M Bauer Neset I Pirkul Megan L. Bernard Eugene Gokhvat Nike Lawrence Charles Wiggins Table of Contents: Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................... 2 Introduction to Personal Rapid Transit .......................................................................................... 3 New Jersey Coastline Summary .................................................................................................... 5 Burlington County (M. Mosney '06) ..............................................................................................6 Monmouth County (M. Bernard '06 & N. Pirkul '05) .....................................................................9 Hunterdon County (S. Woodruff GS .......................................................................................... 24 Mercer County (M. Martin-Easton '05) ........................................................................................31 Union County (B. Chu '05) ...........................................................................................................37 Cape May County (M. Eber '06) …...............................................................................................42 -
As of May 13)
MOTORCOACHES ROLLING FOR AWARENESS RALLY PARTICIPANTS (as of May 13) Accounts (by State) City State John Hall's Alaska Tours and Transportation Anchorage AK Camelot Charters Pell City AL Cline Tours Birmingham AL E & J Tours Birmingham AL Gulf Coast Tours Mobile AL Inventive Tours Tuscaloosa AL Kelton Tours Unlimited LLC Gadsden AL Southeastern Motor Coach, Inc. Birmingham AL Southern Coaches Dothan AL Spirit Coach LLC Madison AL Takers Transportation Huntsville AL Thrasher Brothers Trailways Vestavia Hills AL Tuscaloosa Charter Services Tuscaloosa AL Vineyard Tours, LLC St. Stephens AL Vision Express Tours Montgomery AL Arrow Coach Lines Inc Little Rock AR Little Rock Coaches Little Rock AR Mountain Home Charter Service, Inc. Mountain Home AR JET Limousines & Transportation LLC Phoenix AZ Amador Stage Lines Sacramento CA BEST-VIP Chauffeured Worldwide Santa Ana CA BUS-TECH Sacramento CA Empire Transportation Services FONTANA CA GCLA Los Angeles CA Golden West Travel, LLC Pleasanton CA Highline Charter inc. San Diego CA LA Charter Bus Lines Los Angeles CA Pacific Coachways Charter Services Garden Grove CA Royal Coach Tours San Jose CA Carreras Tours, LLC. Ontario CA Storer San Francisco San Francisco CA Transportation Charter Services, Inc Orange CA Ramblin Express Denver CO Bohannon & Vines Transportation Group, Llc Milford CT Coach Tours Brookfield CT DATTCO, Inc New Britain CT JB Tours &Travel West Haven CT Land Jet Inc Waterbury CT Post Road Stages South Windsor CT Post Road Stages South Windsor CT Rukstela Charter Service Eastford CT Town and Country Transportation Co New Britain CT Destination DC Washington DC International Spy Museum Washngton, DC DC My Dream Tour LLC Washington DC DC Delaware Express Newark DE Rohans Bus Service Inc. -
Pascack Valley Line Timetable
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