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1 Executive Summary
1 The FRA Vision for High-Speed Rail
2 Determining Potential Market Demand for High-Speed Rail
2 Criterion 1: Metropolitan Size
3 Criterion 2: Distance
3 Criterion 3: Transit Connections
4 Criterion 4: Economic Productivity
5 Criterion 5: Congestion
5 Criterion 6: Megaregion
6 Results
7 Developing a Phasing Plan for High-Speed Rail
8 Acknowledgements
9 Technical Appendix
Where High-Speed Rail Works Best 11 Endnotes
Yoav Hagler While these project specific criteria are necessary,
Associate Planner, America 2050 they are not sufficient to identify appropriate corridors
for federal high speed rail funding over the long term. The
Petra Todorovich majority of the applications for the ARRA high-speed rail
Director, America 2050 funding will likely be able to demonstrate at least some level
of transportation and economic recovery benefits to qualify
for these federal funds; however, the FRA should also
develop metrics pare the scale of these benefits across
Executive Summary regions. Specifically, the FRA should develop a mechanism
for judging which corridors across the nation have the
Defining the corridors in America that are most appropriate greatest potential demand for high-speed rail and thus will
for high-speed rail service is critical to the long-term ess provide the greatest transportation, economic, and societal
of America’s high-speed rail program. This paper offers one benefits.
mechanism for assessing which potential high-speed rail Defining which corridors are most appropriate for high-
corridors will have the greatest ridership demand based speed rail development is critical for the long term ess
on population size, economic activity, transit connections, of this nascent federal program. The $8 billion appropri-
existing travel markets and urban spatial form and density. ated for high-speed rail in the ARRA legislation1 is only a
The authors evaluate 27,000 city pairs in