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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Amtrak"”.
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Perpetuum mobile : Amtrak, the original sin
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981.
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The impact of Amtrak performance in the Northeast Corridor
The performance of Amtrak's Acela and Regional services in the Northeast Corridor (NEC) is a topic that, while frequently discussed as substandard by some travelers, has received minimal attention in the compendium of open source research literature. Amidst leading discussions in U.S. Congress to …
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Essays in Revenue Management and Dynamic Pricing
… price. The second topic involves working with Amtrak, the national railroad passenger corporation, to develop a revenue management model. The revenue management department of Amtrak provides the sales data of Auto Train, a service of Amtrak that allows passengers to bring their vehicles on the …
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Intercity passenger rail productivity in the Northeast Corridor : implications for the future of high-speed Rail
… on the feasibility of HSR and the ability of Amtrak to implement it. Indeed, the introduction of the Acela Express in the past decade was not free from operating problems, but even with trains running below their full potential, the Amtrak NEC had substantial market growth. Thus, it is not …
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Engines of culture : learning from the unique public realm of the long distance train
… (De)Regulation, Duration, and Autonomy. Amtrak can build upon its unique platform by improving the train through more fully realizing these conditions. Abstracted, these principles can also be applied to other, non-train public spaces. In comparing the partially successful public realm of …
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Locomotion: A Cinematic Approach
… Within the site of Carpinteria, California's Amtrak train station lies an opportunity to maximize public space through an investigation of those in motion at this place of convergence, including cars, busses, pedestrians, skateboarders, bicyclists, and trains. A cinematic process of design …
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Transactive control of electric railway networks
… is tested through numerical simulation of the Amtrak Northeast Corridor service between University Park Station in the outskirts of Boston, Massachusetts and New Haven Station in Connecticut. Simulations of the southbound service over the course of a year demonstrate that the minimum cost …
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Forecasting Model for High-Speed Rail in the United States
… for the rail system were developed from the AMTRAK website. These changes and calibration coefficients are incorporated in TSAM. The TSAM model is executed for the present and future years and the predictions are discussed. Sensitivity analysis for cost and speed of the predicted HSR is …
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Development of a Decision Support Tool for Planning Rail Systems: An Implementation in TSAM
… from the North American Passenger rail system AMTRAK are used to generate the sample network for this study. The model developed allows the user to evaluate what-if scenarios for various route frequencies and rail technologies such as Accelerail, High Speed Rail and Maglev. The user also has …
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Multi-scale regional transportation governance : evaluating cooperation and decision-making at New York Penn Station
… (New York City Transit), and intercity rail (Amtrak), Penn Station is a physical manifestation of competition for space and financial resources, and the necessity of intermodal collaboration and integrated governance to achieve the maximum benefit for the region. The challenges facing American …
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Track model for predicting dynamic responses of railroad bridge approaches
… data collection and interpretation along the US Amtrak Northeast Corridor lines near Chester, Pennsylvania. Multidepth Deflectometers (MDDs) were installed at the selected bridge approaches to monitor individual layer deformations of track substructure layers. Besides MDDs, strain gauges were …
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The energy futures of long-distance passenger rail in the United States
This research interrogates potential futures for long-distance intercity rail transportation in the United States in the context of possible energy resource constraints. Three epistemically-distinctive analytical frameworks are used in order to provide a more rigorous and synthetic perspective than …
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Development of a High-Speed Rail Model to Study Current and Future High-Speed Rail Corridors in the United States
A model that can be used to analyze both current and future high-speed rail corridors is presented in this work. This model has been integrated into the Transportation Systems Analysis Model (TSAM). The TSAM is a model used to predict travel demand between any two locations in the United States, at …