Annotated Bibliography - SSTI
Annotated Bibliography - SSTI
Annotated Bibliography - SSTI
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Title Freight Rail Funding<br />
Authors State Smart Transportation Initiative (<strong>SSTI</strong>)<br />
Sponsor <strong>SSTI</strong><br />
Date 2011<br />
Pages 3<br />
Category State Funding, Modes: Rail<br />
Note<br />
Also see: http://www.ksdot.org/burrail/rail/publications/rehstudy2005.pdf<br />
Online<br />
Summary<br />
http://ssti.us/wp/wpcontent/uploads/2011/01/Snapshot.Shortline%20RR%20Funding.pdf<br />
The document provides a brief history of Local Rail Service Assistance Program (LRSA)<br />
established in 1973, which stimulated the adoption of rail preservation programs in the<br />
majority of states. It uses the state of Kansas as an example of one of many states that<br />
established state‐funded programs to address rail needs.<br />
The report considers the Kansas State Rail Service Improvement Fund on an economic<br />
scale since its creation in 1999. Among the benefits of avoidance of abandonment are<br />
reduced shipper costs, reduced safety incidents, improved speed of trains, and<br />
improved air quality. The overall benefit cost ratio based on the operational<br />
improvements alone is $1 to $9. Adding in the benefits of continued access to rail, the<br />
ratio jumps to over $1 to 30$.<br />
<strong>Annotated</strong> <strong>Bibliography</strong> Page 32
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