Four Texas universities studying high speed rail

[Slick Vik]

A UT Arlington civil engineering associate professor is studying the feasibility of placing a high-speed rail line within the public right of way from North Texas to Houston and San Antonio.

 

The work is funded by the Texas Department of Transportation.

 

Stephen Mattingly, an associate professor of civil engineering, is assessing the performance constraints to safe operation and design, which affect a high-speed train's average speed and overall system cost as part of his research. The routes would roughly follow Interstate 45 between Dallas and Houston, Interstate 35 between Dallas and San Antonio, and State Highway 6 from Waco to Houston.

 

TxDOT recently faced a significant outcry against right-of-way acquisition when it began to plan for developing the Trans-Texas Corridor, Mattingly said. That negative experience, as well as the typical costs like environmental impacts and delays associated with construction on undeveloped land, led the agency to consider using its existing right-of-way resources to the greatest extent possible critical, he said.

 

"The primary purpose of this research is to determine if and how existing TxDOT right of way can potentially accommodate high-speed intercity passenger rail and/or dedicated freight transportation systems," Mattingly said.

 

Mattingly expects to deliver his findings this fall.

 

North Texas leaders have had recent discussions with Texas Central High Speed Railway, a private, for-profit company interested in bringing high-speed rail to the state. Mattingly's work is not directly related to those discussions but could provide meaningful insight to rail planners.

 

"We're conducting research to provide a range of information for TxDOT so that they have a starting point for negotiations with a possible system designer," Mattingly said. "We want to identify whether it's conceivable to even have high-speed rail in those corridors."

 

The University of Texas at Austin, the University of North Texas and Texas Southern University also are participating in the TxDOT study with The University of Texas at Arlington. UT Arlington's share of the TxDOT grant is $125,868.

 

http://phys.org/news/2013-06-ut-arlington-civil-professor-texas.html

[IronTiger]

This is the third topic you've made today on this sub-board, and you're spamming it with irrelevant garbage.

[Spacecityroller]

I find it very relevant. Please stop trying to speak for everyone.

[Ross]

It is not relevant to post large portions of someone else's work without comment. The appropriate method would be to place the link at the top of the post, with a few short quotes below, interspersed with cogent commentary on the quoted material.

[Ross]

It is not relevant to post large portions of someone else's work without comment. The appropriate method would be to place the link at the top of the post, with a few short quotes below, interspersed with cogent commentary on the quoted material.

[wernicke]

Ross, since you're being a forum cop, please don't post the same message twice...

[Ross]

Ross, since you're being a forum cop, please don't post the same message twice...

 

Oops, that wasn't intentional - my phone was mad at me and decided to make me look bad. It has since been severely chastised.

[august948]

It is not relevant to post large portions of someone else's work without comment. The appropriate method would be to place the link at the top of the post, with a few short quotes below, interspersed with cogent commentary on the quoted material.

That's exactly right. However, Slick knows he can't argue the points based on facts and unbiased research so his new approach is to try to bury us with copy and paste hoping that someone else can make the argument for him.