Ep. 30: 3 Things to Know About FRA’s Corridor ID Passenger Rail Program

Episode Summary:  Listen to national experts and certified planners, Keli Kemp and Kirsten Mote, both with Modern Mobility Partners, talk about how the Corridor ID program is progressing the future of high-speed rail in the US. Listeners will learn the answers to the following questions in Episode 30:

• How the Corridor ID program started and why it is important?
• What are the different selection criteria for the Corridor ID program
• What are the three steps in the Corridor ID program and what is required for each step?
• Where does the funding for the different steps come from?
• What comes after the Corridor ID program?

Links:

• The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (colloquially the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law or BIL) allocated $1.2 trillion for transportation and infrastructure spending, with $550 billion for new investments and programs. https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bipartisan-infrastructure-law/
• The Corridor Identification and Development (Corridor ID) Program is a comprehensive intercity passenger rail planning and development program that will help guide intercity passenger rail development throughout the country and create a pipeline of intercity passenger rail projects ready for implementation.  https://railroads.dot.gov/corridor-ID-program
• The new Corridor Identification Program is managed by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). It will be the pathway to federal financial support and technical assistance for new or improved intercity passenger rail routes across the country. https://https://www.hsrail.org/blog/corridor-id/
• Notice of Solicitation of Corridor Proposals and Funding Opportunity for the Corridor Identification and Development Program

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/12/20/2022-27559/notice-of-solicitation-of-corridor-proposals-and-funding-opportunity-for-the-corridor-identification

• FY22 Corridor Identification and Development Program Selections

https://railroads.dot.gov/elibrary/fy22-CID-program-selections

Co-Hosts:

• Keli Kemp, AICP, PTP has 25 years of experience in transportation planning and consulting and co-founded Modern Mobility Partners in early 2018 with Jennifer Zhan. Keli holds a M.S. degree in Urban Planning from Texas A&M University.
• Kirsten Mote, AICP has over 14 years of experience in transportation planning and is certified by MIT Media Lab’s Beyond Smart Cities program. Kirsten is an Associate Vice President and Director of Smart Mobility Planning with Modern Mobility Partners. Kirsten holds a M.S. degree in City Planning from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Guest Speaker:

• Yu Lin is a Transportation Planner with Modern Mobility Partners with over 2 years of professional experience. He graduated from New York University with a M.S. degree in Transportation Engineering/Planning. His interests include Sustainable Transportation, Micro-mobility, and Intelligent Transportation Systems. 

Modern Mobility Partners is an Atlanta-based women and minority-owned transportation planning and traffic engineering consulting firm.  Service areas include smart mobility and transportation planning, demand modeling and traffic engineering, and data analytics and visualization.

If you are interested in learning more about Modern Mobility Partners, please visit www.modernmobilitypartners.com. 

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