| 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. ( SuggestedTomer, Adie, and Robert Puentes. "Expect Delays: An Analysis of Air Travel Trends in the United States." Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institute, October 2009. ( 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.) |
