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Ecolopolis 5.0: High Speed Rail In Cascadia, Portland State University
Ecolopolis 5.0: High Speed Rail In Cascadia, Portland State University
Regional Planning and Metropolitan Growth Management Research Projects
This is a working document and is the fifth report in this series. This report is the product of term-long projects conducted by graduate students from the two universities, and taught by Professor Daniel Carlson and Professor Ethan Seltzer. The courses engaged the questions of identifying the impacts, maximizing the benefits, and exploring implementation options for high speed rail development in the Cascadia corridor. Though passenger rail has long been a shared interest in the corridor, the recent U.S. initiative proposed by the Obama administration have accelerated high speed rail activity and discussions in Cascadia. The seven papers developed by …