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      <title>The Substitution of Ground Transportation for Service to Smaller Communities Now Receiving Essential Air Service Subsidies</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Since the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has been subsidizing air service to small rural communities through the Essential Air Service (EAS) program. The original intent of the program was to maintain some level of air service to rural communities that would otherwise not have any. The Rural Survival Act of 1996 established the permanence of the EAS program fueled by the idea that reliable air services are vital to local rural economies. This idea is somewhat challenged in recent research studies that found little to no economic impacts of air traffic.

This project entertained the theory that intercity traffic volume, and not air traffic volume alone, is what affects economic outcomes of certain geographical areas. A cost-benefit analysis of substituting subsidized air service with a subsidized ground service is presented and concludes that an intercity ground service network can create substantial cost savings on both a per round trip and round trip-seat basis.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2015 12:25:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Financing High Speed Rail in the U.S. and France: The Evolution of Public-Private Partnerships</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[What specific partnership arrangements have public and private entities proposed and utilized for financing high speed rail in the U.S. and France? Have any of these partnerships allowed intercity passenger high speed rail to be constructed and operated at a profit? How can French and/or U.S. financing arrangements be applied usefully to improve intercity passenger rail in Region 2? This proposal builds upon and extends the boundaries of the University Transportation Research Center (UTRC) Minigrant research that began in September, 2011 and ends in September, 2012. The purpose of this research is to "analyze historical and contemporary cases of high speed rail in France and the United States" in order to develop information for improving to intercity passenger rail in Region II. To date the research has compared the proposed high speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, and the newest French line between Tours and Bordeaux, where construction began in early 2012 under an unprecedented performance-risk-based public-private partnership. The Minigrant did not afford sufficient time to compare additional lines in the U.S. and France because each line, or case, involves a complex financial history and political context. In fact, this research project is still learning more about both the California and Tours-Bordeaux projects. It is proposed to spend 2012- 2013 finishing the work on California and Tours-Bordeaux; adding new U.S. and French cases; and writing reports and articles that provide a comprehensive comparative analysis of the financial history of high speed rail in the U.S. and France.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 02:47:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Research of Transportation Policy for Low-Cost, Intercity Express Bus Industry within the Northeast Corridor</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Intercity bus service is now the fastest growing mode of intercity transportation in the United States-outpacing air and rail transportation. However, despite the rapid growth in this mode of transportation, intercity bus industry operation raise a number of policy questions as well. Transportation policy issues that need to be studied include the industry's unregulated environment, lack of intermodal linkages, operating inconsistencies among carriers, level of service vs. demand for service, impact on federally-supported transportation modes and competition among other intercity modes within the Northeast transportation corridor. Because intercity bus travel is important to the resiliency of the Northeast corridor and the overall transportation network, it merits further attention and discourse among transportation planners, stakeholders and policy makers. The objective of this project is to research transportation policy issues for the low-cost, intercity express bus industry within the Northeast corridor- from Washington D.C. to New York City. To accomplish this objective, research tasks include conducting a literature review and data collection on the intercity bus industry, a field assessment of curbside operations in the Philadelphia metropolitan areas, and a workshop of stakeholders. Research results will be summarized in a hard-copy and online-briefing paper.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:23:53 GMT</pubDate>
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