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.
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- This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1470, Railroad Research Issues. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
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Authors:
- Cogswell, Richard U
- Publication Date: 1994
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 10-21
- Monograph Title: Railroad research issues
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Record
- Issue Number: 1470
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0361-1981
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Air quality management; Capital costs; Measures of effectiveness; Railroad electrification; Railroad transportation
- Uncontrolled Terms: Effectiveness
- Geographic Terms: Los Angeles (California)
- Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00677722
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 0309061016
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: May 19 1995 12:00AM