The proposed corridor would connect cleveland, columbus, dayton, and cincinnati, OH

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) awarded a $500,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Rail Development Commission Ohio under the Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail program (CFDA 20.326). The purpose of this award is to support the development of a Service Development Plan (SDP) for a proposed intercity passenger rail corridor connecting Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, and Cincinnati, Ohio.

Key deliverables include a Project Performance Plan, existing planning materials, a detailed Statement of Work, project schedule, and budget. The outcome will be a complete project description for the next phase of the proposed corridor, which aims to enhance rail connectivity and service in these major Ohio metropolitan areas and surrounding communities. This federal grant award demonstrates the FRA's investment in planning and development activities to advance new or expanded intercity passenger rail services.

Theproposed corridor would provide new service on an existing alignment. Using servicedevelopment plan (SDP) SOW framework, the corridor sponsor will develop a projectperformance 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 projectbudget (task 2.4). The outcome of this project will be the project description for CID step 2, toperform the necessary work to complete an SDP. The proposed corridor will serve thecleveland, columbus, dayton, and cincinnati metro areas as well as the communities inbetween.