Now that the RPA and ROD have been released, Texas Central “is focused on securing funding, followed by the start of physical construction,” the company told Railway Age.
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Kiewit and Mass Electric Construction will install the core operating systems, in partnership with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, while Matthews Southwest, a Texas-based real estate developer, and Suffolk Construction will build the stations. Team Shinkansen United, a consortium of Hitachi, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Toshiba, NEC and JRC, will supply high-speed rail technology. Other partners include Bechtel (rail programme manager), JR Central (technology provider) and Spanish operator Renfe (system operator). They will provide infrastructure work, including design and construction of the viaduct and embankment sections along the entire route installation of track and construction of related buildings and services that will house maintenance and other rail system equipment. In September 2019, Texas Central signed a design-build contract with the Webuild Group (formerly Salini Impregilo) and its US subsidiary and joint-venture partner Lane Construction. Engineers, architects and environmental experts are working on many fronts, including infrastructure, engineering and design development of world-leading safety practices design of the interior of the trains and the rider experience.” A testing and commissioning period is slated to follow in 2025, with service starting in 2026. “At this time, we anticipate construction starting in the first half of 2021. “The momentum toward construction is building every day,” Texas Central told IRJ’s sister publication Railway Age. Passengers will be able to travel between Dallas and Houston - with an intermediate station in the Brazos Valley near Texas A&M University - on a dedicated right-of-way in less than 1h 30min, at a maximum speed of 320km/h. FRA analysed six end-to-end build alternatives as well as a no-build alternative. It also formally selects the alignment the line will follow alongside interstate highway 45. The ROD completes the FRA’s environmental review process, which began in 2014 as required by the National Environmental Policy Act and culminated with the publication of the Final Environmental Impact Statement on May 29.
The Texas high-speed rail system is slated to replicate the Japanese Tokaido Shinkansen system, which is operated by Central Japan Railway (JR Central) and has carried more than 10 billion passengers throughout its 55-plus year history with zero operational passenger fatalities and zero accidents.Īccording to the FRA, the “regulation was written specifically for this technology to maintain the integrity of the baseline safety case” of JR Central’s Tokaido Shinkansen, and establishes “regulatory requirements codifying the service-proven technological, operational, and maintenance aspects of the Tokaido Shinkansen high-speed rail system.” According to Texas Central, it is based on a systems approach to safety, incorporating accident avoidance measures that are “significantly more stringent than those required for conventional US rail operations.” The RPA establishes comprehensive safety requirements governing signal and train control, track, rolling stock, operating rules and practices, system qualifications, and maintenance. “This is the moment we have been working toward,” says Mr Carlos Aguilar, CEO of Texas Central operating subsidiary Texas Central Railroad. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has released the final Rule of Particular Applicability (RPA) and Record of Decision (ROD) that establish federal safety standards for operation and give environmental clearance for the selected alignment, respectively.
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