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”LOS ANGELES-BOSTON: 20h on High Speed”

Fort, Luis

Fort, Carmen

Polytechnic University of Madrid 1
Eptisa, S.L.

Abstract

This paper describes a Spanish proposal of possible collaboration with the Federal Railway
Administration of the USA Transport Department for the operating in a term of 15 years of the HSR
way Los Angeles (CA)-Boston (MA), 3.626 mile (5.834 km) length, that vertebrate the USA High
Speed Railway System “USHSRS”, 17.000 mile (more of 27.000 km) length, launched in 2009 by
the President Obama, and to date, only in execution some sections of the CHSRA (California High–
Speed Railway Authority), 200 km hardly, in the Californian Central Valley, around Fresno. In the
construction of these sections take part Spanish companies of high level in wined bids provided the
Spain’s privileged international consideration for the development and high technology of its high-
speed railway network (AVE), the second in the world by length, after China.
This itinerary is integrated by the Structural Units: “Ia:- Pacific Coastal Corridor”, “II: Intercoasts
Way” and “Ib:– Atlantic Coastal Corridor”, as collect in the Table “Taking off & Summary” about
Characteristic figures: morphological, structural and budgetary, from predesigned HSR Lines by the
authors of this paper in the “Farwest”, “Canevar”, “Nevut”, “Utconmar”, “Interplains”, “Ohio-
Potomac” and “Chesa-Hudsanan-Charles” Projects. The Construction Budget is 112.175 M$, with an
unit cost of 19,30 M$/km.
Finally is summarized an operation study of this itinerary with fourteen stations and the two
Terminals, from which would depart trains each forty minutes (18h/day) by direction, respectively,
with twenty carriages (eleven sitting cars and nine sleeping cars) in a similar composition to the
used in the Berlin-Moscow express railway since 2016 December 17. In a graph is summarized also
the distances between stations, times of travel (with stops between) and foreseen ticket rates with
loans at 6% for a total investment financing (infrastructure, superstructure, equipments, signaling
and rolling stock).

Keywords: High-Speed Railway, USHSRS, Los Angeles-Boston Itinerary, ...

1 Fort, Luis. Polytechnic University of Madrid. Email: lfort@ciccp.es
Fort, Carmen. Eptisa, S.L. E mail: cfort@eptisa.com

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