Transportation Planning Bookshelf/Corridor Reports

The following reports on intercity rail passenger systems have been specially selected and/or prepared by the transportation planning and analysis staff of the FRA's Office of Railroad Development:

Intercity Passenger Rail Cost Analysis

• Methodology for Determining the Avoidable and Fully Allocated Costs of Amtrak Routes, Vol. I, Main Report (December 2009)
• Vol II, Appendix A
• Vol. III, Appendices B-H 

Baltimore's Railroad Network: Challenges and Alternatives (November 2005) 

• Executive Summary
• Part I - Challenges
• Part II - Alternatives
• Graphics Supplement

Report to Congress: Costs and Benefits of Magnetic Levitation (September 2005)

• Report to Congress: Costs and Benefits of Magnetic Levitation (September 2005)

Railroad Corridor Transportation Plans: A Guidance Manual (July 2005) 

• Railroad Corridor Transportation Plans: A Guidance Manual (July 2005)  

Transportation Planning for the Philadelphia-Harrisburg Corridor (March 2004) 

• Vol I: Main Report
• Vol II: Appendixes

Transportation Planning for the Richmond-Charlotte Corridor (January 2004) 

• Vol I: Main Report
• Vol II: Appendixes

Potential Improvements to the Washington-Richmond Railroad Corridor (May 1999) 

• Vol I: Main Report
• Vol II: Appendixes

Inter-Regional Auto Trip Model – The Volpe Center (October 1994)

• Inter-Regional Auto Trip Model – The Volpe Center (October 1994)

High Speed Ground Transportation for America (September 1997) 

• High Speed Ground Transportation for America (September 1997)