Introduction to Engineering Systems

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.)