Northeast Regional Conservation Committee  High Speed Rail Task Force

Organizations & Reports

Nationwide

• High Speed Rail Section of the Federal Railroad Administration within the US Department of Transportation
  • High Speed Ground Transportation for America [a Report to Congress dated September 1997]
  • Next Generation High-Speed Rail Technology Demonstration Program [a Five-year Plan dated March 2002]
  • Passenger Rail Technology Development
    (These reports have not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)

• Surface Transportation Policy Project (Non-profit Organization)
          (Note that Sierra Club is a coalition partner)

  • Web Site for policy leaders & elected officials

  • Web Site for transportation professions & educators

  • Web Site for grassroots advocates & coalition partners

• National Association of Railroad Passengers  (Non-profit Organization)
          (Information on this site has not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)
  • NARP Hotline...updated at least weekly (typically Friday afternoons)
  • NARP Action Alert A background explanation of the ongoing Amtrak crisis.
• National Corridors Initiative (Non-profit Organization)

  • Destination: Freedom (A weekly newsletter available on their Web Site)
    (This newsletter has not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)

• Reconnecting America (Non-profit Organization)

  • Missed Connections: Solving the Crisis in Air Travel

  • Improving the Link Between Air and Rail:
    (These reports have not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)

• High Speed Ground Transportation Association (Trade Association)
          (Information on this site has not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)

• American Passenger Rail Coalition (Trade Association)
          (Information on this site has not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)

• Amtrak [National Railroad Passenger Corporation]

  • AMTRAK’S VISION FOR AMERICA’S HIGH-SPEED RAIL PROGRAM (Spring 2002)
    (This report has not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)

• CMAQ Notice on High Speed Rail Eligibility - US-DOT - Federal Highway Admin
          (Congestion Mitigation & Air Quality is a highway program that funds 'alternate modes' of transportation!)
          (This report has not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)
•  Transportation Research Board (Non-profit Organization)
  • High-Speed Rail IDEA
    (Information on this site has not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)
• High-Speed Rail (HSR) in the United States - Why Isn't There More? an article by Louis S. Thompson in the October 1994 issue of Japan Railway & Transport Review
          (This report has not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)
•  Energy Wise Options for State and Local Governments By Michael Totten and Nita Settina (January 1993)
  •  High-Speed Rail and Magnetic Levitation
    (This report has not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)
• HIGH-SPEED RAIL: PARTNER OR COMPETITOR ? by J.-P. Widmer, a paper presented at Airports Council International, Air links 2002, Salzburg
          (This report has not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)
• Comparisons of Biofuels in High Speed Turbine Locomotives , a paper published in 1999 by the The Northeast Regional Biomass Program
          (This report has not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)
• Cimarron Technology, Ltd. (Corporate Web Site)
          (Information on this site has not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)
  • Essays - Transportation in the Post-Petroleum World

With in the 9 State Northeast Region

• See the individual High Speed Corridors!

Canadian

• High Speed Trains for Canada: Technological Excellence, Groundless Conviction, or Bureaucratic Obsession?  by Richard M. Soberman , a chapter of Essays in Canadian Surface Transportation published by The Frazer Institute in 1995
          (This report has not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)

Elsewhere in the United States

• California High-Speed Rail Authority (State Agency)

• California High Speed Rail Commission (Former State Agency)

  • Executive Summary of the December 1996 final report 

• San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association  (Non-Profit Organization)

  • California High-Speed Rail Project: SPUR's Call to Action

• The Last Train Out - a two-part article in Metro - Silicon Valley's weekly Newspaper

  • Part One - High-speed rail is the answer to California's clogged roads and airports, but will the politicians get it?

  • Part Two - Proponents argue that high-speed rail is the only way to save our state from death by sprawl. So what's the holdup?

• Bay Rail Alliance (Non-Profit Organization)

  • California High Speed Rail Page

• Rail Passenger Association of California (Non-profit organization)

  • RailPAC POSITION ON THE CALIFORNIA HIGH SPEED RAIL PROPOSAL

• Baltimore-Washington Maglev Project (Project Sponsors)

• Southeast High Speed Rail corridor (Consortium of four State Transportation Agencies)

  • Southeast High Speed Rail - Tier I Environmental Impact Statement - Executive Summary

• Florida High Speed Rail Authority (State Agency)

• Midwest High Speed Rail Coalition (Non-Profit Organization)

  • O'Hare Direct - A proposal to solve Chicago's Airport Crisis

• Milwaukee to Madison High Speed Rail corridor (a project of WI-DOT)

  • Environmental Assessment

• Indiana High Speed Rail Association (Non-Profit Organization)

• Virginia High Speed Rail Development Committee (Non-profit organization)

• High Speed Rail/Mass Transit A 25 minute video program from Capitol Region Roundtable on December 8, 2000 featuring

  • Matt Benka, executive assistant to the Director of Operations, Virginia Railway Express.

  • Richard L. Beadles, executive director, VA High Speed Rail Development Committee

  • Jonathan Gifford, Ph.D., professor, director, Transportation Policy, Operations and Logistics program, School of Public Policy, George Mason University

• Stop This Train, The case against high-speed rail by Richard Nadler posted to The National Review Web Site on October 11, 2001.

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