GUIDEBOOK FOR PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF URBAN RAILROAD PROBLEMS

The report is the second of four volumes and prepares a methodology for performing future railroad relocation studies. The purposes of Volume 2 are to acquaint community leaders with the problems and opportunities that are presented by planning for railroad relocation, and to enable local government personnel, with assistance from railroad company and highway department sources, to prepare a preliminary estimate of the feasibility for improving a local railroad system--including rough costs, economic consequences, and other community impacts, using minimum resource outlay. Charts, tables, and worksheets aid in estimating costs and impacts of alternative approaches to improving the local railroad system. Volume 1 is an executive summary; Volume 3 is a guidebook for community policymakers and technical specialists for conducting detailed relocation planning projects; and Volume 4 presents a nationwide estimate of the nature and magnitude of urban railroad problems.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared in cooperation with TOPS On-Line Service, Inc., San Francisco, Calif., and Kaiser Engineers, Inc., Oakland, Calif.
• Corporate Authors:

  Stanford Research Institute

  333 Ravenswood Avenue
  Menlo Park, CA  United States  94025

  Federal Railroad Administration

  Office of Policy and Program Development, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Tops-On-Line Service, Incorporated

  1 Market Street
  San Francisco, CA  United States  94105

  KAISER ENGINEERS

  OAKLAND, CA  United States 
• Authors:
  • Moon, A E
• Publication Date: 1975-4

Media Info

• Pagination: 79 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Abandonment; Benefit cost analysis; City planning; Communities; Economic analysis; Governments; Highway planning; Highways; Intersections; Land use; Lines of track; Neighborhoods; Operating costs; Planning; Public relations; Railroad transportation; Railroads; Relocation (Facilities); Socioeconomic factors; Trackage rights; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Relocation
• Old TRIS Terms: Government planning; Line relocation
• Subject Areas: Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00093012
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Final Rpt., FRA/RP-31-Vol-2
• Contract Numbers: DOT-FR-20037
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Nov 18 1981 12:00AM