NORTHEAST CORRIDOR TRANSPORTATION PROJECT REPORT

The Northeast Corridor Transportation Project was charged to determine the inter-city transportation facility requirements of the Northeast Corridor through 1980. This report contains the following: A comparative analysis of the transportation alternatives as to their technical feasibility, economic costs and benefits and other impacts in the year 1975; A discussion of the actions required to implement the transportation alternatives; An examination of possible financing and management of new modes included in the alternatives; Advantages and disadvantages of various organizational alternatives; Population growth patterns and the Corridor transportation system; Methodology; Description of the alternative systems; and exploratory studies and sensitivity tests. (Author)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Limited number of copies containing color other than black and white are available until stock is exhausted. Reproductions will be made in black and white only.
• Corporate Authors:

  OFFICE OF HIGH SPEED GROUND TRANSPORTATION

  WASHINGTON,    
• Authors:
  • NELSON, R A
  • Shuldiner, P W
  • Miller, M
  • Winestone, R L
• Publication Date: 1970-4

Media Info

• Pagination: 242 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Passenger service; Travel demand
• Geographic Terms: Northeast Corridor; Northeastern United States
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00039179
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: NECTP-209
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 24 1973 12:00AM