LOS ANGELES BASIN RAILWAY ELECTRIFICATION STUDY

Railway electrification as a means to reduce locomotive emissions dates back to the original electrification schemes in Baltimore's Howard Street Tunnel and New York's Park Avenue Tunnel at the turn of the century. Although today's emissions are more complex and less visible, electrification of railroad lines still offers the same solution as it did a century ago. The voluminous railroad electrification study done for the Los Angeles Basin area in 1991-1992 is summarized. Emphasis is placed on emissions findings, capital cost parameters for electrification, and the relative effectiveness of railway electrification as compared with mitigation measures being ordered for fixed source emissions in the Los Angeles Basin. The relative priority ranking of the various routes studied is beyond the scope of this paper, involving as it does subjective and operationally variable analysis.

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Features: Figures; References; Tables;
  • Pagination: p. 10-21
  • Monograph Title: Railroad research issues
  • Serial:

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00677722
  • Record Type: Publication
  • ISBN: 0309061016
  • Files: TRIS, TRB
  • Created Date: May 19 1995 12:00AM