ESD.00 | Spring 2011 | Undergraduate

Introduction to Engineering Systems

Projects

Environmental Analysis of High-Speed Rail: Readings

REC # TOPICS READINGS
R1 Project motivation and background

“Vision for High-Speed Rail in America.” U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration, April 2009. (PDF - 2.0MB)

Suggested

Tomer, Adie, and Robert Puentes. “Expect Delays: An Analysis of Air Travel Trends in the United States.” Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institute, October 2009. (PDF - 3.7MB)

Schafer, Andreas, and David G. Victor. “The Future Mobility of the World Population.” Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 34, no. 3 (2000): 171-205.

R2 The case of California and the Northeast Corridor

Project Vision and Scope.” California High-Speed Rail Authority.

Northeast Corridor Main Line.” U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration.

R3 Full class recitation: Tutorial on Vensim  
R4 Demand forecasting and uncertainties

Guy, Ann Brody. “California High-Speed Rail Ridership Forecast Not Reliable, Study Finds.” UC Berkeley News Center, July 1, 2010.

Brownstone, David, Mark Hansen, and Samer Madanat. “Review of “Bay Area/California High-Speed Rail Ridership and Revenue Forecasting Study.”” UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies, June 2010.

R5 Full class recitation: Introduction to random variables, probability and statistics  
R6 Evaluating the environmental impacts of high-speed transportation Chester, Mikhail, and Arpad Horvath. “Life-cycle Assessment of High-Speed Rail: the Case of California.” Environmental Research Letters 5, no. 1 (2010).
R7 Full class recitation: Midterm project presentations  
R8 Network models of high-speed transportation  
R9 Project feedback and discussion  
R10 Project feedback and discussion (cont.)  
R11 Project lab hours  
R12 Project lab hours (cont.)  

Course Info

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Problem Sets with Solutions
Lecture Notes
Projects with Examples