SCMAGLEV – Innovative Mass Transportation in the Northeast Corridor (NEC)

Synopsis:

The Northeast Corridor Superconducting Maglev Project (SCMAGLEV) entails construction of a high-speed train system between Washington, D.C. and New York City, with the first leg between Washington and Baltimore, MD.  This innovative project will shorten travel times between Washington D.C. and Baltimore to approximately 15 minutes, and connect Washington, DC to New York City in under an hour.  In 2021 the draft EIS is expected to be issued for comment with a Final EIS/ROD anticipated by early 2022. This paper provides an update on the project as presented in Gall et al. (2020) and discusses the economic and environmental benefits, preferred alignment alternative, preliminary staging and launching of the TBMs for construction, and preliminary station design.

2021 Rapid Excavation & Tunneling Conference Proceedings
June 13-16, 2021, Las Vegas, NV (Gall, V., Syrtariotis, N., O’Brien, T., Rainey, I., & Berger, M.)
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