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Railroad Research Foundation
Project Overview
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TITLE: |
Digital Mapping for Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation
Efficiency (CREATE) Program
Award Dates: August 19, 2004 - December 31, 2007
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| PROJECT REFERENCE |
SPONSOR:
Federal Railroad Administration
PROGRAM MANAGER and PROJECT MANAGER: William Thompson |
| PROJECT
OBJECTIVE(S) |
The CREATE project is designed to improve railroad and highway
traffic flow and reduce grade crossing hazards in the Chicago
metropolitan area. The objectives of this project are to assist
in the implementation of CREATE.
- To demonstrate the use of LIDAR digital mapping technology
to gather the physical railroad corridor data that the
operating railroads and public agencies will need to assess
and design a network level rearrangement of intersecting
railroad and highway routes in the Chicago metropolitan
area.
- To process the LIDAR survey data, format it in a standard
fashion suitable for use by all organizations involved
in the CREATE project, and make the processed files available
to CREATE participants.
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