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65 The intercity passenger rail implementing agency will have activities and concern areas as ongoing matters during all phases of operation. The level of state or implementing agency involvement in these matters may vary.
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66 Guidebook for Intercity passenger rail Service and Development interchangeable/non-train-specific) tickets for their services, a small number of highly successful PRIIA Section 209 routes still offer a single preset price for each city pair.
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Operations and Maintenance: Ongoing Service Management 67 Revenue Management Some successful, high-frequency, high-volume corridors have chosen to provide open, unreserved seating, giving passengers more flexibility to switch from one train to another and avoid the incremental contracted cost for reserved seats. The downside of open seating is the potential for an individual train to be oversold, resulting in standees or, denied boarding, coupled with the potential loss of demand pricing.
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68 Guidebook for Intercity passenger rail Service and Development Marketing and Outreach Approaches to marketing of intercity passenger rail services vary from state to state and depend on how involved the implementing agency is in overseeing and managing the service. State DOTs involved in intercity passenger rail for a long time may have trained staff that handle marketing or work with Amtrak or other private operators providing the service to promote its use to the public.
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Operations and Maintenance: Ongoing Service Management 69 One of the most significant challenges in providing increased passenger rail frequency on any shared-use, host-freight-railroad-owned corridor is negotiating the (likely) non-negligible cost of infrastructure capital improvements to provide capacity for the added service.
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70 Guidebook for Intercity passenger rail Service and Development without major intermediate terminals or freight rail clients, the estimates of needed new capacity may be fairly straightforward and can rely on revisions to the technical modeling tools used in the baseline service analysis. If the proposed lines of the extension involve major urban centers, freight rail terminals, or online freight rail clients, the complexity of the negotiation and the associated new capital investments may prove to be a bigger challenge for the passenger service sponsor.
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Operations and Maintenance: Ongoing Service Management 71 frequency reduction or outright termination of service if new (future-year) appropriations cannot be provided by their legislatures.
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72 Guidebook for Intercity passenger rail Service and Development non-travelers accompanying a passenger. Depending on size of city, frequency of service, and average anticipated passenger volume, state-sponsored passenger rail stations can range from a minimum of a short platform, signage, lighting, and possibly an external shelter but no formal enclosed structure, to a large, staffed, multi-room, climate-controlled building with ticket windows, possibly staff office space, a small restaurant or at least substantial food vending machines, other small tenants, and so forth.
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Operations and Maintenance: Ongoing Service Management 73 with their respective local and regional transit counterparts to develop good station-related infrastructure-enabling connectivity and with coordinated transit schedules and operations. One of the most important reasons to maintain and expand good intermodal connectivity is that it represents a true win-win opportunity, typically adding more revenue and ridership to both the served intercity passenger route and the local transit operator.
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74 Guidebook for Intercity passenger rail Service and Development Among state-sponsored services, especially in California, Oregon, and Washington, there is a plethora of excellent examples of new intermodal connections, mostly with local/regional bus transit, enabled by expansion or reconfiguration of existing stations and designed as integral elements of new stations. Almost every station on the three California-sponsored Amtrak corridor routes -- the Capitol Corridor, San Joaquin service, and Pacific Surfliner service -- have some degree of direct connection to locally operated bus transit.
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Operations and Maintenance: Ongoing Service Management 75 As the cited examples show, making sure that intercity passenger rail service is integrated into the overall transportation system and supported by local transit links is vital to ensuring high levels of ridership. Providing a service without planning these connections is unwise and likely will lead to failed or ineffective service.
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76 Guidebook for Intercity passenger rail Service and Development equipment to higher ground yards or even use of high-ground running tracks for temporary storage rather than risking submerging in flood waters. • Keep Trains Moving (as long as safely possible)
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