This study documents an investigation into the potential for high-speed rail (HSR) service in California between Los Angeles and San Francisco/Sacramento via a new alignment in the Central Valley. An earlier report, IURD Working Paper 564, reviewed technology and alignment issues, recommended a...

This is the age of the train: certainly in Japan and in Europe; probably, soon, on the East Coast. The urgent question is whether California will catch the train, whether indeed it should catch the train, and if so how.  Modern high-speed train travel involves trains that achieve sustained...

This report represents that conclusions of the first year of IURD's study of the potential for a high-speed passenger train service in California. Seven previous studies have each dealt with a specific high-speed train technology; each attempted an evaluation, standardized so far as data...

This report has met two objectives: 1. The state's existing intercity rail corridors have been evaluated for potential upgrading in terms of estimated costs, travel times, and population projections. 2. The most promising existing rail and "new-corridor" alternatives for high-speed service...

It seems that transportation planners everywhere are looking for ways of reducing vehicle miles of travel (VMT) by automobile, even as citizens seem determined to drive more. The trend may be especially evident here in California where everyone seems to believe that use of cars is excessive,...

In recent years, the topic of "Suburban Gridlock" has emerged as one of the most significant transportation problems in the United States (Cervero, 1985). As population deconcentrates from central cities to suburban rings, and increasingly to the peripheries of those rings, employment has tended...

This report represents that conclusions of the first year of IURD's study of the potential for a high-speed passenger train service in California. Seven previous studies have each dealt with a specific high-speed train technology; each attempted an evaluation, standardized so far as data...