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| Background |
By 2020, the population of Southern California will grow from 16 million to 22 million people. This is the equivalent of two cities the size of Chicago. Demand at the region's airports will increase more than 85 percent to approximately 154 million annual passengers. Air cargo volume will triple to nine million annual tons. The prospect of these dramatic increases in population, employment and travel demands, led the Southern California Association of Governments to adopt the development of high-speed, intra-regional Maglev service as part of its Regional Transportation Plan. As one of seven Maglev projects competing for federal Maglev demonstration funding, the California Maglev Project sponsors have completed predeployment planning studies and prepared a "Project Description" for consideration by the Federal Railroad Administration in its evaluation of the seven competing projects. The highlights of the Project Description are described below. |
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