The proposed corridor would provide new service on a new high-speed rail alignment between charlotte, north carolina, and atlanta, georgia, with potential intermediate stops including…

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration under the Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail program (CFDA 20.326) provides $500,000.00 to the North Carolina Department of Transportation Rail Division to develop a Service Development Plan (SDP) for a proposed high-speed rail corridor between Charlotte, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia.

The project will include tasks to create a project performance plan, gather existing planning materials, develop a statement of work, establish a project schedule and budget, and deliver the final project description for the next phase of the corridor development process. The proposed corridor would connect the Charlotte, Greenville-Spartanburg, Athens, and Atlanta metropolitan areas, as well as rural communities in between. This award will fund the initial planning and development activities to advance this intercity passenger rail project.

The proposed corridor would provide new service on a new high-speed rail alignment between charlotte, north carolina, and atlanta, georgia, with potential intermediate stops including greenville-spartanburg international airport in south carolina and augusta and athens, georgia, then serving a downtown atlanta station and terminating at atlantas hartsfield-jackson international airport, the worlds busiest airport. Using service development plan (SDP) SOW framework, the corridor sponsor will develop a project performance plan (task 1.1), existing planning and development materials (task 2.1), statement of work (task 2.2), approved project schedule (task 2.3), approved project budget task 2.4). The outcome of this project will be the project description for CID step 2, to perform the necessary work to complete an SDP. The proposed corridor would serve the charlotte, greenville, spartanburg, athens, and atlanta metro areas and rural communities in between.