DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION OF A COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING PROCEDURE FOR URBAN RAILROAD RELOCATION

Relocation for consolidation of railroad facilities in urban areas offers a potential for achieving significant benefits from eliminating delays and accidents at grade crossings, environmental degradation near the railroad, and social and economic barriers and from improving the efficiency of railroad operations. However, the impacts of railroad relocation are distributed widely throughout a community, and any real improvement in the community and railroad system will require careful and comprehensive planning. This paper describes a planning procedure and guidebook developed to help community leaders organize and manage the planning process and to provide a consistent framework for developing and analyzing the costs and benefits of alternatives. The project team found that the analytical procedure was effective when used at the proper level of detail to support the decisions to be made as a result of the current study. They also found that the evaluation of projects with significant nonmonetary benefits is difficult, despite the organization of the benefits that can be valued or measured. This paper illustrates the application of these procedures and the guidebook to the problem of railroad relocation in the city of Lafayette, Indiana.

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• Authors:
  • Moon, Albert E
• Conference:
  • 54th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia
  • Date: 1975-1-13 to 1975-1-17
• Publication Date: 1976

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 15-27
• Monograph Title: Measures of Effectiveness, Railroad-Highway Grade Crossings, and Visibility
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 562
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Benefit cost analysis; City planning; Guidelines; Lines of track; Railroad grade crossings; Railroads; Relocation (Facilities); Safety; Socioeconomic factors; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Relocation
• Old TRIS Terms: Analytical method; Analytical techniques; Line relocation
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Highways; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00134865
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309024722
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Sep 4 1976 12:00AM