High Speed Rail Need in the US
Start Date
17-4-2024 4:00 PM
Location
2nd floor - Library
Abstract
My research project is centered around the question of high Speed Rail in the United States. My research question is as followed, Does the US have the Population density to support a High Speed Rail System. I am answering this question by comparing three unique potential High Speed Rail Lines in the US, based of off current Am Track Service. These Lines are compared to European High speed rail lines, that are similar distances and popularity. For the US I did the North East Corridor, San Francisco to Los Angeles, and Chicago to Cincinnati. For Europe I used Paris to Barcelona, London to Frankfurt, and Hanover to Munich. I chose these for comparisons because of their sizes and their significance and relationship to each other. So far what I can tell is that there is a genuine need for a Better High Speed rail system in the North East Corridor, because it has a massive mean population density across all of the cities it stops through, and the passenger count is very high. There is a need for one on the west coast as well due to the sheer population density and number of people that need to be moving between San Francisco and Los Angeles, but terrain issues kept appearing during my research. The research on the Chicago to Cincinnati line shows that there is no need for a high speed rail service in the Midwest, and the Amtrack service may as well not exist either based on ridership.
High Speed Rail Need in the US
2nd floor - Library
My research project is centered around the question of high Speed Rail in the United States. My research question is as followed, Does the US have the Population density to support a High Speed Rail System. I am answering this question by comparing three unique potential High Speed Rail Lines in the US, based of off current Am Track Service. These Lines are compared to European High speed rail lines, that are similar distances and popularity. For the US I did the North East Corridor, San Francisco to Los Angeles, and Chicago to Cincinnati. For Europe I used Paris to Barcelona, London to Frankfurt, and Hanover to Munich. I chose these for comparisons because of their sizes and their significance and relationship to each other. So far what I can tell is that there is a genuine need for a Better High Speed rail system in the North East Corridor, because it has a massive mean population density across all of the cities it stops through, and the passenger count is very high. There is a need for one on the west coast as well due to the sheer population density and number of people that need to be moving between San Francisco and Los Angeles, but terrain issues kept appearing during my research. The research on the Chicago to Cincinnati line shows that there is no need for a high speed rail service in the Midwest, and the Amtrack service may as well not exist either based on ridership.
