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2017 VIRGINIA STATE RAIL PLAN Executive Summary Virginia’s rail network is a valuable asset that grows the economy, relieves congestion, saves lives, improves air quality and saves taxpayer money. Continued investment in rail infrastructure will ensure the mission and vision of the Commonwealth’s transportation network is achieved. CONTENTS 01 BENEFITS OF RAIL IN VIRGINIA 07 FUTURE OF RAIL IN VIRGINIA 09 VIRGINIA’S VISION FOR THE FUTURE 10 GOALS AND OBJECTIVES 14 PRIORITY IMPROVEMENTS AND INVESTMENTS BENEFITS OF RAIL IN VIRGINIA VIRGINIA’S RAIL SYSTEMS Virginia’s rail network is have leveraged private and of rail service-related spending a valuable asset for the federal funds to improve in Virginia emanate from Commonwealth. It provides freight and passenger rail firms providing freight and an efficient means of moving transportation and support the passenger transport services, freight and passengers both overall transportation system. industries using such services within and through the Rail economic impacts to to trade goods (shippers/ state. The Commonwealth Virginia are estimated using receivers), and expenditures recognizes the privately multipliers from the IMPLAN® from visitors who reach Virginia owned rail network as part of a economic model with input via rail. Of these activities, multimodal system with public data and assumptions from freight-users generate the benefits and growing economic freight movement data, most significant impact. impacts. Since the 2000s, passenger rail operations, and significant state investments visitor characteristics. Impacts $73 billion of output. 8.8% of Virginia’s total output $19.8 billion earned by employees. 6.4% of the state’s total income Over $30 billion of added value. 6.0% of the state’s Gross State Product (GSP) 341,519 jobs, 6.7% of the 5.1 million jobs statewide $1.9 billion of tax revenue Output – In terms of total revenue, consists of payments received by to 341,519 jobs, which represent the rail industry generated about self-employed individuals and 6.7 percent of the 5.1 million jobs $72.9 billion in output, which is 8.8 unincorporated business owners. statewide. percent of Virginia’s total output. Value Added – The combined value Tax Revenue – Federal, state Income – $19.8 billion earned by added impact of rail services is over and local tax revenues generated by these total employees represent $30 billion and represents 6.0 percent the rail industry totaled $1.9 billion. 6.4 percent of Virginia’s total labor of the state’s Gross State Product income. Labor income includes (GSP). employee compensation and proprietary income. Employee Employment – Economic impacts compensation, in turn, consists of of rail extend beyond the 6,762 wage and salary payments as well as directly employed in the provision benefits (health, retirement, etc.) and of rail transport (both passenger employer paid payroll taxes (employer and freight). When the freight and side of social security, unemployment visitor impact activities and multiplier taxes, etc.). Proprietary income impacts are included, rail-related employment in Virginia amounts 1 Investment in the rail network also has a direct benefit to Virginia’s highway system. By diverting freight and passenger traffic from road to rail, Virginia’s rail network helps by growing the economy, relieving congestion, saving lives, improving air quality, saving money, and complementing the Virginia highway network while reducing capital and maintenance expenditures. RELIEVE CONGESTION $312M ANNUAL IN CONGESTION SAVINGS $123M ANNUAL PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE SAVINGS (6% OF VDOT MAINTENANCE BUDGET) 8 = 240 100 = 340 PASSENGER PASSENGER FREIGHT SEMI-TRAILER RAILCARS VEHICLES RAILCARS TRUCKS $73 billion of output. 8.8% of Virginia’s total output TRAVEL SAFE 18 LIVES SAVED AND 3,000 CRASHES AVOIDED EACH YEAR Shipping by rail avoids Passenger travel by rail avoids about about 1.7 billion miles 271 million miles of personal of truck travel in Virginia Over $30 billion of added value. 6.0% of the state’s Gross State Product (GSP) CO2 driving in Virginia BREATHE EASIER 3M TONS OF CO2 EMISSIONS AVOIDED (6.4% OF TOTAL IN VIRGINIA PER YEAR) $1.9 billion of tax revenue On average, railroads Moving freight by rail instead The total estimated level are four times more fuel of truck generates 75% less of rail service in Virginia in efficient than trucks greenhouse gas emissions 2015 was about 25 billion ton-miles SAVE MONEY RAIL SERVICES DRIVE 6% OF VIRGINIA’S TOTAL ECONOMY. MORE THAN 6,000 JOBS CREATED DIRECTLY BY RAIL NETWORK $2.2 BILLION about 9 cents per FREIGHT RAIL in cost avoidance ton-mile of rail use $190 MILLION about 46 cents per PASSENGER RAIL in cost avoidance passenger-mile of rail use 2 Virginia’s Rail Systems, continued Virginia’s rail network is regions along the eastern facility in Front Royal – a critical link in a larger seaboard. This corridor and carries several Amtrak rail system within the also carries the majority of services into the Northeast. eastern United States; it Virginia’s Amtrak passenger • Norfolk Southern’s Heartland connects the state’s ports, services, and serves as the Corridor links Virginia’s Port businesses, and communities gateway to Washington, D.C. to Midwest markets, carrying to other major population for Virginia Railway Express intermodal containers from centers, customers, and commuter trains. the docks in Hampton Roads manufacturing regions • CSX’s National Gateway also to consumers in Chicago. throughout the nation uses the I-95 Corridor route • Amtrak services are shown and the world. Corridors through Virginia. This key rail within the Commonwealth on the map as light blue artery diverges from the I-95 shading along the privately have unique characteristics Corridor in Washington, D.C. that provide alternative owned freight corridors. to link the Port of Virginia Amtrak services operate over transportation options and and other mid-Atlantic ports diverse public benefits to the privately-owned railroads with cities and markets in the in Virginia. Virginia regional economy. Many of Virginia’s U.S. Midwest. freight corridors also carry service provides one-seat passenger trains. All of the • Norfolk Southern’s Crescent rides from Virginia’s major freight corridors are privately- Corridor runs from north cities to Washington, D.C. owned and serve the Port of to south, serving consumer and the Northeast Corridor, Virginia in Hampton Roads in markets and manufacturing while Amtrak long-distance some capacity. regions between New trains carry passengers Orleans, Memphis, and the through Virginia between the • CSX Transportation’s I-95 Northeast. In Virginia, the Northeast, Southeast, and Corridor spans the entire Crescent Corridor serves Midwest. Eastern U.S., linking cities, the Virginia Inland Port – an ports, and manufacturing intermodal container transfer 3 VIRGINIA IS A CRITICAL LINK IN THE NATIONAL RAIL NETWORK 4 PASSENGER ROUTES Passenger trips to, from, and existing rail bottlenecks to from Washington, D.C. to within Virginia are growing better connect the entire Lynchburg and Roanoke. and highways in Virginia Southeast region with Passenger volumes on Virginia are increasingly congested. Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor. regional service totaled over Passenger rail service Since 2013 Virginia has 830,000 riders in FY2016. provides an alternative to provided dedicated funding When combined with long congested highways, and the to support and expand distance service, passenger Commonwealth therefore intercity passenger rail volumes exceeded 2.5 million invests in Amtrak intercity operations across the state. riders. Virginia also supports passenger routes, as well Virginia’s busiest passenger commuter rail operations as Virginia Railway Express rail routes parallel the provided by Virginia Railway commuter service to improve heavily traveled I-95 corridor, Express, which serves the mobility and meet the growing where a growing number heavily congested I-95 demand for travel. Projects of Virginia regional service Corridor from Fredericksburg and plans underway in CSXT’s trains serve Richmond, to Washington, D.C. as well RF&P subdivision and the Long Newport News, and Norfolk. as the I-66 Corridor between Bridge across the Potomac to Additional Virginia regional Manassas and Washington, Washington, D.C. will alleviate services extend southwest D.C. 5 FREIGHT ROUTES As the economy grows, so intermodal rail corridors that goods, 120,000 carloads of do the freight demands on connect Virginia to the nation, chemical products, 103,000 Virginia’s highways. The providing a cost-effective way carloads of food products, and Commonwealth recognizes the to bring needed raw materials 85,000 carloads of pulp and public benefits and economic and products to our ports, paper products, keeping more impact of investments manufacturers, and consumers, than 5.5 million trucks off the in a multimodal freight and to carry Virginia-made Commonwealth’s highways. transportation system. The products and materials to Savings in pavement freight rail network has a destinations throughout the maintenance costs alone are unique role supporting the Port nation. In 2012, Virginia’s rail estimated to be over $123 of Virginia’s target markets network carried more than million per year, almost 6% of in the Midwest. Both CSX 800,000 carloads of coal, VDOT’s annual maintenance and Norfolk Southern have 534,000 carloads of mixed budget. 6 FUTURE OF RAIL IN VIRGINIA FUTURE OF RAIL Virginia’s passenger and freight in coal traffic. Population drive

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