The Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to implement the Northeast Corridor Improvement Program to achieve, within 5 years after date of enactment of the Act, establishment of regularly scheduled and dependable intercity rail passenger service between Boston, Mass. and Washington, DC, including appropriate intermediate stops. The Federal Railroad Administration has authorized a number of preliminary programming, planning and engineering tasks to provide the basis for development of final plans for the design and construction work. Performance Standards were developed to serve as the primary source of requirements to be satisfied in the design of the individual stations. The Performance Standards represent a set of generalized planning and design criteria for major functional and operational components of stations and sites documented in terms of quantities, sizes, levels of service and performance characteristics related to 1990 patronage projections. These Performance Standards are to become part of a Work Package for each station that will also include a Station Program, Schematic Design Drawings, Outline Specifications, a Cost Estimate, and an Implementation Schedule.
Northeast Corridor High Speed Rail Passenger Service Improvement Program. Task 12.2. Corridor Stations Performance Standards
1976
406 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Transportation & Traffic Planning , Railroads , Passenger transportation , Railroad stations , Services , Planning , Design , Scheduling , Cost estimates , Systems engineering , Massachusetts , District of Columbia , Virginia , Maryland , High speed trains , Commuter rail systems , Northeast Region(United States) , Boston(Massachusetts)