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      <title>Putting a Price on Regional Rail Quality: Evaluating the Value Potential Riders Place on Regional Rail Service Attributes</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Public transit has suffered from chronic disinvestment despite its community-wide benefits. Post-pandemic, drastic changes in travel demand have left agencies grappling with financial stress. California’s transit ridership has generally tracked alongside national ridership trends with a substantial dip in ridership and then slow recovery, but commuter rail mode share has remained substantially lower than pre-pandemic shares. Most rail services are geared towards serving commuters; higher frequency is offered during weekdays and peak hours, ticket pricing is tailored to favor people making the same kind of trip on a regular basis, and service hours align with commuter needs. The five days-a-week commuting to work lifestyle is no more, and rail agencies serving commuters are experiencing decimated ridership that is showing no signs of bouncing back. This project uses survey research targeted towards understanding how to tailor rail services to gain new markets for regional rail services. The research team developed a stated preference (SP) experiment to understand evolving needs of commuters and non-commuters, as well as riders and potential riders. The service attributes under study include train schedule, ticket cost, station access, reliability, station amenities, and how the potential user base views rail services. Although the study will focus on the area defined by its research partner, Capitol Corridor, it is widely applicable across the country in locations with intercity, suburban, and small urban regional rail services.]]></description>
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      <title>SEPTA Regional Rail Automated Wire Scan</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) will partner with Strukton Rail North America Inc. to deploy a state-of-the-art automated scanning technology to assess the condition of the overhead contact system (OCS) wires over 262 track miles of its regional rail network. This new technology will provide information that is more complete, detailed and accurate than what present visual observation and hands-on inspection techniques and will allow SEPTA to enhance its capital planning, achieve or maintain a state of good repair, and reduce maintenance costs.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2023 13:53:36 GMT</pubDate>
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