INCREMENTAL HIGH-SPEED RAIL ISSUES

Incremental high-speed rail is an intercity passenger transportation c oncept that has grown from the combined pressures of increasing airpor t and highway congestion, of fiscal constraints on the construction of new transportation infrastructure, and of sensitivity to environmenta l concerns. Incremental high-speed rail has a strong potential role in the new era of intermodal transportation planning heralded by Intermo dal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991. There are c urrently six designated incremental high-speed rail corridors each add ressing the unique issues associated with such projects.