Connecting national, regional, and local trains with mixed use communities
Transit Oriented Development and HSR
Transit oriented development (TOD) is the exciting new fast growing trend in creating vibrant, compact, livable, walkable communities centered around high quality train systems. TODs can be stand-alone communities, or a series of towns strung along a rail line like pearls on a string. TODs are the integration of community design with rail system planning.
High speed rail is the backbone of a rail-based transportation system. When combined with regional rail, light rail, metro systems, streetcars and trams, a complete and integrated rail network is achieved enabling easy, fast mobility throughout the system. Coordinating and encouraging compact, mixed-use development around the rail stations completes the system by enabling people to live, work, and play along the system without the need for a car much of the time. Together, these save time, money, energy, and lives.
National Rail System
Regional Rail Systems
Local Rail - Trams, Streetcars
Multi-modal transportation
Integrating trains and buildings
A National HSR system is the centerpiece of a sustainable America
Reducing our oil consumption through compact community design combined with rail transportation.
"We need more options!"
"Transit Oriented Development as an approach to combat traffic congestion and protect the environment has caught on all across the country. The trick for real estate developers has always been identifying the hot transportation system. Today, highways are out; urban transit systems are in." -The Urban Land Institute (ULI)
"If we are to continue economic development and prosperity, we will need to greatly reduce our daily oil consumption, and high-speed rail is the only possible solution that can scale up to meet the growing demand of American mobility while greatly reducing our oil consumption." -USHSR President Andy Kunz onCNN
China advances green energy and transportation all together: Launching the world's largest solar power plant - 6.7MW photovoltaic generating system capable of powering 12,000 households.
The solar installation was installed on the roof of a new high speed rail station combining green energy with green transportation. Read the article
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