Contracting Commuter Rail Services, Volume 1: Guidebook (2018)

Below is the uncorrected machine-read text of this chapter, intended to provide our own search engines and external engines with highly rich, chapter-representative searchable text of each book. Because it is UNCORRECTED material, please consider the following text as a useful but insufficient proxy for the authoritative book pages.

80 ACE Altamont Corridor Express AMT Agence Métropolitaine de Transport Amtrak National Railroad Passenger Corporation B&M Boston and Maine Railroad B&O Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Caltrans California Department of Transportation Capital Metro Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority CN Canadian National Railway Company Conrail Consolidated Rail Corporation CP Canadian Pacific Railway CR Commuter rail DART Dallas Area Rapid Transit DCTA Denton County Transportation Authority DMU Diesel multiple unit DTP Denver Transit Partners FAST Act Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, 2015 FR Freight rail FRA Federal Railroad Administration FTA Federal Transit Administration GAO U.S. Government Accountability Office GO Transit Government of Ontario Transit IR Intercity rail KPI Key performance indicators LIRR Long Island Rail Road MAP-21 Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act MARC MARC Train Service, Maryland Transit Administration MBTA Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Metra Metropolitan Rail Corporation Metro-North Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company MOE Maintenance of equipment MOU Memorandum of understanding MOW Maintenance of way MSRA Maryland State Rail Administration MTA Maryland Transit Administration NCDA Northstar Corridor Development Authority NCTD North County Transit District NERR Nashville and Eastern Railroad New York MTA New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority Acronyms

Acronyms 81 NICTD Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District NJ TRANSIT New Jersey Transit Rail Operations NRSA Northeast Rail Service Act of 1981 NVTC Northern Virginia Transportation Commission P&W Portland and Western Railroad P3 Public–private partnership PATH Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation PCJPB Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board Port Authority of NY & NJ Port Authority of New York and New Jersey PRIIA Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 PRR Pennsylvania Railroad PRTC Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission PTC Positive train control RDG Reading Company Rio Metro Rio Metro Regional Transit District RRP Regional Rail Partners RRTA Railroad Retirement Tax Act RSA Railway Safety Act (1989, Canada) RSIA Rail Safety Improvement Act (2008, United States) RTA of Middle Tennessee Regional Transportation Authority of Middle Tennessee RTD Denver Regional Transportation District RTM Réseau de Transport Métropolitain RUIA Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act SCRRA Southern California Regional Rail Authority SEPTA Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority SFRTA South Florida Regional Transportation Authority SJRRC San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission SLE Shore Line East SMART Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit SMS Safety Management Systems Sound Transit Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority SP Southern Pacific Railroad SSO State Safety Oversight SSOA State Safety Oversight Agency STB Surface Transportation Board TCRA Tri-County Commuter Rail Authority, South Florida TRA Trackage rights agreement TransLink South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority TRE Trinity Railway Express TriMet Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon UPRR Union Pacific Railroad UTA Utah Transit Authority VIA Rail Canada’s dominant intercity rail passenger service operator VRE Virginia Railway Express WCE West Coast Express WES Westside Express Service