Poor Connection: Inter-City Passenger Rail in the United States
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Title
Poor Connection: Inter-City Passenger Rail in the United States
Subject
transportation
Description
In order to combat climate change, it is imperative to replace individual automobile and air travel with mass transportation. The US Inter-City Rail system is lacking serious connections. Bus systems and routes can be useful in locations that are less easily traversed by trains. However, as the map on the bottom shows, there are railroads crossing both the Rocky Mountains as well as the Appalachian mountains, so the infrastructure exists the have much more mass transit than the US currently does. The question of Inter-City Rail Connectivity in the US is not a matter of feasibility, but of political willpower, and one of existential proportions in the face of Anthropogenic Climate Change.
Creator
Brautigam, Oscar
Date
Fall 2021
Format
poster
Language
en
Class Project Item Type Metadata
Course Code
GEOG220
Course Title
Cartography: Spatial Data Visualization with GIS
Status
completed
Last Updated
6/18/25
Files
Collection
Citation
Brautigam, Oscar, “Poor Connection: Inter-City Passenger Rail in the United States,” Vassar Student Sustainability Projects, accessed November 12, 2026, https://sustainabilityprojects.vassarspaces.net/items/show/302.