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	1975 in rail transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1975.
		August 10 - British Rail's Advanced Passenger Train achieves 245 km/h (152.3 mph) between Goring and Uffington on the Western Region.
		As a result Independent Safety Board Act's passage the previous year, the United States National Transportation Safety Board becomes a completely independent agency, severing all organizational ties to the national Department of Transportation and all of its modal agencies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1975_in_rail_transport (264 words)

	Transportation Series No. 11--State Rail Transportation Issues and Policies
		This report places passenger, freight and rail safety issues into the state legislative context as an aid to state policymakers who are seeking to devise solutions for the problems facing their states and communities.
		Although rail is one of the safest modes of transportation, accidents at highway-railroad grade crossings remain a problem, as the March 1999 collision of a truck with an Amtrak train in Bourbonnais, Illinois, illustrates.
		The North Carolina Department of Transportation reimburses Amtrak for 100 percent of the net operating expenses of the Piedmont and 100 percent of the expenses of the Carolinian between Rocky Mount (which is near the Virginia border) and Charlotte.
	www.ncsl.org /programs/transportation/transr11.htm (13640 words)

	japan rail - japanrail
		The growth in passenger transport of private railroads in 1987 was 2.6 percent, which meant that the Japan Railways Group's rate of increase was above that of the private sector railroads for the first time since 1974.
		Demand for rail transport was improved, although it still accounted for only 28 percent of passenger transportation and only 5 percent of cargo transportation in 1990.
		Rail passenger transportation was superior to automobiles in terms of energy efficiency and of speed in longdistance transportation.
	www.kopete.org /japan-rail.html (711 words)

	The Third Rail - "American Ground Transport" page 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Subways and rail transit proposals have had to compete with hospi- tals, schools and other governmental responsibilities for funding..
		And, ironically, the GM presence extends even to these promoters of transit—“Due to its position as the Nation’s largest producer of bus and rail vehicles, it is a major financial contributor to both the American Transit Association and the Railway Progress Institute.
		General Motors is engaged in a continuing effort to divert Government funds from rapid rail transit, which seriously threatens the use of cars in metropolitan areas, to GM buses, which fail consistently to persuade people to abandon their autos.
	www.thethirdrail.net /9905/agt5.htm (618 words)

	Cost Recovery in Road and Rail Transport (Research Paper 28 1999-2000)
		Road transport operators are required to identify the vehicle class, nominate the maximum gross weight for which the vehicle is to be licensed, and nominate the start and finishing kilometres.
		It is not possible to determine whether State rail access charges reflect the cost to society for the use of infrastructure since the basis on which State rail authorities calculate their charges is opaque.
		The Bureau of Transport Economics estimated that (on a net tonne kilometre basis), the cost of road externalities is in the order of seven times the cost of rail externalities for interstate non-bulk freight transport.
	www.aph.gov.au /LIBRARY/Pubs/RP/1999-2000/2000rp28.htm (6021 words)

	Worldwide Light Rail BOOM
		This activity is a testimonial to the fact that transportation planners, decisionmakers, and operators - in scores of cities across the globe - see LRT as a viable, cost-effective, and essential component of their urban transportation systems.
		Light rail's development in Europe is particularly vigorous - and that's the focus of the following Fact Sheet, prepared by the British-based Light Rail Transit Association and its UK Development Group, and dated January 1999.
		The oil crisis of 1974 caused a major rethink by the French Government which, from 1976 onwards, culminated in grants of up to 50% towards projects that promoted electrically powered public transport modes.
	www.lightrailnow.org /features/f_000005.htm (1581 words)

	Transport Systems Monitoring - Transport Watch UK
		Produced by the Railway Conversion League in 1974, is as apt today as it was 30 years ago.
		In highway terms, rail rapid transport systems are so lightly loaded as to be substantially disused.
		Welcome to Transport Watch UK Transwatch is an independent organisation not connected with any business, organisation or political party initially funded by a private trust and dedicated to making the best use of land already committed to transport in the interests of the community as a whole
	www.transwatch.co.uk (700 words)

	Transport Watch UK - Community Rail
		Because of their limited carrying capacity as railways, and because of the diminishing demand for bulk transport by land, they are being wasted, very expensively: they carry relatively little traffic at disproportionately high cost.
		In the study that advocated it, instead of going for conversion of rail into busway, Alan M Voorhees, the American consultants, assumed that the 11ft rail track would have to be converted into a 12ft bus lane, with 3ft verges.
		The evidence for this is the persistent decline in rail traffic in the past six years, despite £1,000 million of subsidies.
	www.transwatch.co.uk /transport-quotes-1974.htm (2926 words)

	Urban Transport Technology - Hong Kong Mass Transit, China
		These three extensions are crucial to the further development of East Rail as the north-south strategic railway corridor in Hong Kong, complemented by West Rail as the east-west corridor.
		Ma On Shan Rail and the Tsim Sha Tsui extensions are due for completion by 2004, while the Lok Ma Chau Spur Line is targeted for completion in 2007.
		Along with West Rail, Ma On Shan Rail will be one of the quietest railways in the world when it goes into service as it will make use of the same multi-plenum noise attenuation system.
	www.urbantransport-technology.com /projects/china (2353 words)

	AllRefer.com - Japan - Railroads and Subways \| Japanese Information Resource
		Railroads were long the most important means of passenger and freight transportation, ever since they were established in the late nineteenth century, but from the 1960s they were rivaled in usage by road transportation (see Roads, this ch.; table 22, Appendix).
		The relative share of railroads in total passengerkilometers fell from 66.7 percent in 1965 to 42 percent in 1978, and to 29.8 percent in 1990.
		The growth in passenger transport of private railroads in 1987 was 2.6 percent, which meant that the Japan Railways Group's rate of increase was above that of the privatesector railroads for the first time since 1974.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/japan/japan162.html (958 words)

	The Department For Transport's (DFT) Rail Review: Response from the Health and Safety Commission (HSC) and Health ...
		Our rail policy advisers have been dedicated to the task of reviewing and revising railway safety legislation and guidance in the light of recommendations made following these incidents, and measures from Europe to modernise the rail regulatory framework.
		HSE rail staff have set high standards of professionalism and should be proud of what they have achieved within HSE.
		For my part, I acknowledge the commitment and competence of HSE Rail staff (Both HMRI and the policy staff) and agree that we will need to work closely together if we are to retain their experience, skills and motivation during the transition.
	www.hse.gov.uk /press/2004/c04032.htm (1964 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Hot Topics - Transport
		Rail fares in the UK are now the third highest in Europe
		Even the government admits Britain's road and rail network is amongst the worst in Europe
		Although the rail network employs 130,000 people, it has a shortage of skilled engineers.
	www.bbc.co.uk /science/hottopics/transport/index.shtml (550 words)

	Transport Forum 2005: Urban Transport
		Bajpai is an engineer with urban and regional planning, and transportation backgound and hold a doctorate degree from the University of Paris.
		In 1967, he was appointed as Chair of Transport Economics at the University of Leeds where for most of the next twenty years he was Director of the Institute for Transport Studies.
		Gwilliam was transport economics assessor in the Greater London Development Plan Inquiry, advisor to the Director General of Transport of the European Community and the British Parliamentary Committee on Transport and, for seven years, a Director of the British National Bus Company.
	www.worldbank.org /transport/learning/urbantrans.html (1846 words)

	International Economics Glossary: I
		A cost of transporting a good that uses up only some fraction of the good itself, rather than using any other resources.
		The facilities that must be in place in order for a country or area to function as an economy and as a state, including the capital needed for transportation, communication, and provision of water and power, and the institutions needed for security, health, and education.
		A tax levied between 1963 and 1974 by the United States of 15% on interest received from foreign borrowers, intended to discourage capital outflows.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~alandear/glossary/i.html (4035 words)

	The Third Rail - "American Ground Transport" page 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In April of that year, a Chicago Federal jury convicted GM of having criminally conspired with Standard Oil of California, Firestone Tire and others to replace electric transportation with gas- or diesel-powered buses and to monopolize the sale of buses and related products to local transportation companies throughout the country.
		In December of that year, GM bus chief Roger M. Kyes correctly observed: ‘The motor coach has supplanted the interurban systems and has for all practical purposes eliminated the trolley (street-car)’.
		But the last chapter of mass transit history has not been written and the Snell report views the present and anticipates the future as it looks at “the political restraint of rail transit” by the continuing efforts of auto makers.
	rapidtransit.com /net/thirdrail/9905/agt4.htm (623 words)

	Transport Minister announces appointments to Via Rail - May 27, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		She accepted the position of feature writer at the Montreal Gazette in 1974 and worked as assistant managing editor of Maclean’s newsmagazine.
		She left Maclean’s for the position of executive vice-president and chief operating officer of the C.D. Howe Institute, where she also held the position of vice-president and chief administrative officer.
		Prior to holding these positions, she practiced law for a variety of government departments and agencies, including the Petroleum Directorate and the Department of Transportation and Public Works where she specialized in interpretation and drafting of legislation and regulations.
	www.tc.gc.ca /mediaroom/releases/nat/2005/05-h121e.htm (329 words)

	The Third Rail - "American Ground Transport" page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The story of America’s transportation evolution in the automotive age illustrates, as no other area of our national experience, the meaning of “progress.” At the turn of the century, America had a massive complex of public transportation.
		Copyright © 1974 by Third Rail Press, © 1999 by The Composing Stack Inc.
		The Third Rail and The Third Rail logo are trademarks of The Composing Stack Inc.
	www.thethirdrail.net /9905/agt1.htm (204 words)

	Road & Rail Services Inc., 14-CA-27983, JD(ATL)-11-05, George Carson II, 3/7/05
		Road and Rail was performing this work at 6 of the locations, and, on March 31, obtained the contracts to perform this work at all 19 locations.
		Road and Rail presented Raab with a contract that the company had typically used, and Raab presented the Shopmen’s contract.
		Armine testified that Road and Rail had the same preemployment requirements at all its locations, that “Caliber’s … hiring policies … were very similar to ours,” and that he, therefore, “had a high degree of confidence” that the Caliber employees would meet the foregoing prerequisites for employment.
	www.nlrb.gov /nlrb/shared_files/decisions/alj/jd(atl)-11-05.htm (6175 words)

	International transport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		International work on the Transport of Dangerous Goods is focused on the United Nations Committee of Experts and various ad hoc specialist groups.
		The international carriage of dangerous goods by rail within Europe is governed by Annex I of the Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail (COTIF, from Convention de l'Organisation Intergouvernmentale pour les Transports Internationaux Ferroviaires).
		New developments in both products and transport may require amendments, some of which may be less easily applied to one transport mode than to another.
	www.dft.gov.uk /stellent/groups/dft_freight/documents/page/dft_freight_504698.hcsp (1535 words)

	British National Rail Ridership from 1919 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Strategic Rail Authority reports indicated that intercity rail ridership reached 42.4 billion passenger kilometers in 2004/2005.
		This is the highest ridership level since the immediate post war year of 1946.
		Ridership is up 41 percent since 1995-6, the last full year before award of the first privatization franchise.
	www.publicpurpose.com /ic-ukbr1919.htm (123 words)

	New South Wales Rail Transport Museum
		With the retirement of McCusker, the Department of Railways was abolished, and the Public Transport Commission formed, under the control of a Mr Philip Shirley.
		On the 1st of December, 1994, the NSWRTM became the first society in NSW to be granted full accreditaion as a owner and operator of a railway - the Picton - Mittagong Loopline.
		While most tours involve the use of one of the groups mainline steam locomotives and their mainline express passenger cars, tours with hired diesel locomotives and hired railcars are sometimes organised.
	www.sleeper.apana.org.au /railway/nswrtm.html (1233 words)

	Rail Transport Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Rail Transport Museum at Bassendean, Perth Western Australia is Western Australia's premier museum devoted to railway history.
		The museum relies entirely on the voluntary efforts of the membership of the Australian Railway Historical Society to undertake the massive task of restoration of exhibits and running the museum.
		You are welcome to assist in the preservation of the unique rail heritage of Western Australia by becoming a member of the society.
	members.westnet.com.au /rapalmer/arhs/museum.htm (252 words)

	World Metro List - Metro Bits - mic-ro.co(s)m (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One reason is that definitions of what a metro is may vary according to who you ask (a popular definition is here).
		Differences between heavy rail, metros and trams began fading in the past few decades as more metros now include stretches shared with roads or heavy rail.
		In other cases, metros have gradually evolved from tram or rail lines, so it is often difficult to tell the actual length or date of inauguration of a metro.
	mic-ro.com /metro/metrolist.html (168 words)

	OUP: UK General Catalogue
		This important book, written by Britain's leading railway historian, provides an authoritative account of the progress made by British Rail prior to privatisation, and a unique insight into its difficult role in the government's privatisation planning from 1989.
		The introduction of sector management from 1982 and the 'Organising for Quality' initiative of the early 1990s, the Serpell Report on railway finances of 1983, the sale of the subsidiary businesses, the large-scale investment in the Channel Tunnel, and the obsession with safety which followed the Clapham accident of 1988, are all examined in depth.
		In the conclusion, the author reviews the successes and failures of the public sector, rehearses the arguments for and against integration in the railway industry, and contrasts what many have termed 'the golden age' of the mid-late 1980s, when the British Rail-government relationship was arguably at its most effective, with what has happened since 1994.
	www.oup.com /uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199250059 (603 words)

	Special Collections, Langsdale Library
		A Demonstration of Light Rail Transportation in the Nation's Capital: A Citizens' Proposal - March 1975
		The UMTA Rail Modernization Program: The Distribution of Capital Grant Funds for Rail Rehabilitation and Modernization, 1965-1977 (July 1978)
		The UMTA Rail Modernization Program: Evaluation of the Impacts of Section 3 Captial Grants for Rail Rehabilitation and Modernization, 1965-1977 - May 1979
	archives.ubalt.edu /lr/lr4_c.htm (909 words)

	Internet Resource Guide: Transport Law Resources
		Transport Safety Investigation Bill 2002: Report and Submissions (Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee)
		Formerly, the National Ropad Transport Commission (NRTC), the NTC was established in 2004 to promote uniform regulatory aspects of land transport (road and rail) networks
		Advertised as "Your Internet portal to international transportation" this site is the home page of Countryman and McDaniel, US Customs Broker Attorneys.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/intguide/law/transportlaw.htm (1122 words)

	Luso Pages - Sintra (Portugal) Transport
		The route formerly started from Sintra railway station but, between 1930 and 1954, it terminated a few kilometres up the coast beyond Praia das Maçãs at Azenhas do Mar. After a threatened closure in 1950, the Council insisted on the retention of at least a summer-only service and this operated from 1953.
		But, following the upheaval of the Portuguese Revolution, between September 1974 and 1980 no tram service at all was operated.
		Stagecoach Portugal had its origins in the reprivatization of Portuguese bus and coach operation, which had been nationalized after the 1974 Revolution.
	www.luso.u-net.com /sintra.htm (2897 words)

	Transport Minister announces appointments to Via Rail : ArriveNet Press Releases : Travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gazette in 1974 and worked as assistant managing editor of Maclean's newsmagazine.
		Inc., a Crown corporation created in 1977, operates Canada's national passenger rail service.
		Irène Marcheterre, Director of Communications, Office of the Minister, Ottawa, (613) 991-0700; Transport Canada is online at www.tc.gc.ca.
	press.arrivenet.com /travel/article.php/644768.html (452 words)

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