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Innovative Rail Technologies Cross-Town Rail Line: Final Report
25 Apr 2003
Abstract
Northern Center City, home to many cultural attractions and educational institutions, has also become a growing IT center. With increasing numbers of residents, students, commuters, workers, and tourists in the area, there is an obvious need for additional mass transportation. Through an extensive revitalization project, Innovative Rail Technologies (IRT) proposed to reconstruct portions of an abandoned Reading Railroad line, which provided much of the industrial and passenger transit into and out of the city limits during the early 1900's. The vacant right-of-way of the former City Line Branch allows a unique and viable opportunity to provide new rail transportation to the region. The entire core route of the Cross-Town Rail Line will extend from an eastern terminus of Broad Street just north of Callowhill Street, to a western terminus of the Philadelphia Zoo. The initial core route will allow for expansion possibilities west through Fairmount Park into Manayunk and east to the waterfront attractions along Delaware Avenue. Through the use of existing standards, ridership demographics, and engineering standards of practice, IRT generated an economically sound and feasible means by which commuters and tourists alike will be able to reach this under-served but recovering area, freeing its streets of traffic congestion.
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- Title
- Innovative Rail Technologies Cross-Town Rail Line: Final Report
- Creators
- Douglas Castelli - Drexel University (1970-)Erin Hill (Author) - Drexel University (1970-)Michael Johnson (Author) - Drexel University (1970-)Dayle Jones (Author) - Drexel University (1970-)
- Resource Type
- Report
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Engineering; Drexel University (1970-)
- Other Identifier
- 991014632080904721