GUIDEBOOK: Use of Highway ROW for High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail and Dedicated Freight Transportation Systems

The purpose of this guidebook is to help Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) staff evaluate proposals for using new or existing highway right-of-way (ROW) for high-speed intercity passenger rail (HSIPR) or dedicated freight transportation systems. This guidebook is intended to provide the foundation for a new manual covering such evaluations. This guidebook consists of the following sections: section 1 introduction; section 2 reviews the legal and administrative considerations of using existing highway ROW; section 3 describes the design requirements for different HSIPR and freight technologies, a feasibility analysis methodology, and the conditions of approval needed for projects; section 4 presents highway and road design criteria that accommodate potential co-location with HSIPR or dedicated freight transportation systems; section 5 identifies procedures used by other state departments of transportation (DOTs) for use of ROW for innovative transportation systems; and section 6 synthesizes information from DOTs, past reports, and published literature regarding capturing revenue, matching grants or entering into private-public partnerships for use of state DOT ROW for HSIPR and dedicated freight transportation systems.

• Record URL:
  https://library.ctr.utexas.edu/ctr-publications/0-6698-p3.pdf
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• Summary URL:
  https://library.ctr.utexas.edu/Presto/search/SearchResults_ClearCriteria.aspx?q=(catalog.ID=(32971))
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Project title: Examining the Use of Existing Public Rights-of-Way for High-Speed Rail or Other Infrastructure. Cover date: August 2013.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Texas, Austin

  Center for Transportation Research, 1616 Guadalupe Street
  Austin, TX  United States  78701-1255

  Texas Department of Transportation

  Research and Technology Implementation Office, P.O. Box 5080
  Austin, TX  United States  78763-5080

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Larsen, Katie A
  • Mattingly, Stephen P
  • Madanu, Sunil K
  • Clower, Terry L
  • Wilson-Chavez, Owen
  • Seman, Michael
  • Qi, Yi
  • Wright, Vernaldo
  • Ardekani, Siamak
• Publication Date: 2014-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 137p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Evaluation; Feasibility analysis; Finance; Freight transportation; High speed rail; Highway design; Highways; Literature reviews; Passenger transportation; Public private partnerships; Regulations; Right of way (Land); State departments of transportation
• Geographic Terms: Texas
• Subject Areas: Design; Freight Transportation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01541405
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 0-6698-P3
• Contract Numbers: 0-6698
• Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Oct 21 2014 2:09PM