San Pedro Bay Ports Rail Enhancement Program: 2010 Update

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Leue ◽  
Carlo Luzzi
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Program Implementation ◽  
Development Process ◽  
System Development ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
San Pedro ◽  
Rail System ◽  
San Pedro Bay

The San Pedro Bay Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles continue to provide vital rail connections to the rest of the country. The Rail Enhancement Program sets forth the rail improvements necessary to maintain performance as cargo volumes grow through the year 2035. Implementation of the Rail Enhancement Program has faced hurdles including environmental permitting, funding and competing stakeholder concerns. Cargo growth eased in the years approaching 2010, but the timing of proposed improvements to the rail infrastructure remains critical and challenging. The Rail Enhancement Program is the result of work over the past ten years. Conditions affecting the program have continued to change since the original Rail Master Planning Study of 2000. Updates to the Master Plan have been performed in 2005 and 2010. These documents provide analyses and recommendations for rail improvements to maintain adequate rail service on the Alameda Corridor and through the Port to its rail yards. In developing the Rail Enhancement Program, simulation is used to understand the impacts of increasing cargo volumes on the rail system and to investigate infrastructure and operating improvements required to address deficiencies and to determine improvements to efficiently handle projected traffic. This paper describes the development process with a summary of the analysis methods, resulting proposed rail projects, implementation process and current status of implementation. The steps of the rail system development process include the following: • Evaluation of existing and proposed rail operations; • Conceptual design of over forty potential rail improvement projects; • Analysis of the capacity of existing and proposed facilities; • Scheduling of project development to meet demand; • Estimation of environmental, community and regional impacts and benefits; • Determination of schedule including environmental permit requirements; • Development of project funding plans; and • Preparation of engineering designs and construction documents. The paper will conclude with a summary of the status of key projects from the Rail Enhancement Program. Implementation of the Rail Enhancement Program has included permitting, funding and design efforts on individual projects. The projects currently under development total $1B out of the overall $2B program. The Rail Enhancement Program provides significant benefits to operating efficiencies, environmental impacts and economic impacts. Implementation has been a challenging effort and illustrates the myriad obstacles facing public infrastructure development.

scholarly journals SHIP MOTION STUDY FOR THE 2010 AND 2020 PLAN IN THE SAN PEDRO BAY, CALIFORNIA

1986 ◽  
Vol 1 (20) ◽  
pp. 204
Author(s):  
A.F. Yuen ◽  
M.G. Burke ◽  
T.C. Leung
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Ship Motion ◽  
Wave Forces ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
Tidal Circulation ◽  
San Pedro ◽  
Port Of Los Angeles ◽  
San Pedro Bay

The Port of Long Beach, in cooperation with the Port of Los Angeles and the Corps of Engineers, has been working on the development of a Master Plan for the San Pedro Bay area. This Master Plan, nicknamed the "2020 Plan", is intended to project the Port's land and channel requirements through the year 2020. Any landfill expansion program would be implemented in phases throughout the life of the Master Plan. The initial phases of such a plan would greatly limit the ability of the Port to revise the future configuration of landfill phases, making it important for the Port to determine a final landfill configuration before implementing the early phases. In developing the 2020 Plan, the Port projected a need for approximately 2,600 acres of additional land. In attempting to turn this 2,600 acre figure into a landfill scheme, the controlling agencies had to take a number of factors into consideration, including (1) water quality and tidal circulation; (2) potential ship motion problems; (3) additional berths required for future development; (4) land and waterside transportation corridors required; (5) availability of dredge material for creating the land; (6) available areas for creating landfills; (7) efficiency of land usage in various configurations; (8) types of ships anticipated to use the new landfills; (9) types of terminals anticipated to be located on the new landfills. The Port of Long Beach developed two basic schemes which addressed the requirements listed above. In either case, the landfill configuration for the Port of Los Angeles remained the same. The first scheme (called the island scheme, Figure 1) had the advantage of more closely matching the proposed Port of Los Angeles development. Water quality and tidal circulation would be improved with this scheme. The second scheme (called the horseshoe scheme, Figure 2) created a channel on the Long Beach side which did not match the orientation of the channel on the Los Angeles side. This channel was better protected from wave forces than the island scheme, where ships would have to be berthed along the exposed southerly boundary.

Black Gold and Paradise

2015 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. 240-243
Author(s):  
Steven A. Preston
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
San Pedro

The presence and use of petroleum in the Los Angeles area date back to prehistoric times. The automobile-driven Black Gold Rush of the 1890s fueled the emergence of Los Angeles and its port at San Pedro. But oil also had its downsides. The following speakers will address oil-based growth, problems, remedies, and culture.

scholarly journals Performance Evaluation of Road Pavement Green Concrete: An Application of Advance Decision-Making Approach before Life Cycle Assessment

Coatings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Hatem Alhazmi ◽  
Syyed Adnan Raheel Shah ◽  
Muhammad Aamir Basheer
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Rice Husk Ash ◽  
Testing Procedure ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Rigid Pavement ◽  
Waste Products ◽  
Road Pavement ◽  
Pavement Structures

Rigid pavement structures are one of the costly components of the infrastructure development process. It consumes a huge quantity of ingredients necessary for concrete development. Hence, a newly introduced concept of circular economy in combination with waste management was introduced to solve this problem. In this study, three waste products (rice husk ash (RHA), wood sawdust (WSD), and processes waste tea (PWT)) was utilized to develop the concrete for rigid pavement structures by replacing the sand, i.e., a filler material at different percentages. During the testing procedure of compressive (CS), tensile (TS), and flexural strength (FS) properties, RHA and WSD at 5% replacement were found to be a good replacement of sand to develop required concrete. This study will help in the production of eco-friendly rigid pavement structures and a pathway of life cycle assessment in the future.

scholarly journals Engineering Procurement Construction in the Context of Belt and Road Infrastructure Projects in West Asia: A SWOT Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ajmal Nikjow ◽  
Li Liang ◽  
Xijing Qi ◽  
Samad Sepasgozar
Keyword(s):  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Complex Environments ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Normative Practice ◽  
Belt And Road

Engineering procurement and construction (EPC) is a normative practice globally approved since China has been engaging in international cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) infrastructure development. EPC has been adopted in the delivery of BRI infrastructure projects in other countries. Compared to the domestic method of contract, EPC remains at a low level in management practice, such as a lack of coordinating diverse project stakeholders, high cost of information communication, and risk in complex environments in West Asia (WA). However, no research has conducted a strategic analysis of the current situation of EPC for BRI infrastructure projects in West Asian countries. This study aims to understand the current status quo of EPC for BRI projects in WA by performing a strength, weakness, opportunity, and threats (SWOT) analysis and with the support of data collected from the literature review and semi-structured interviews with EPC stakeholders. The study brings awareness along which internally and externally circumstances of the EPC for BRI infrastructure projects can be perceived by major stakeholders participating. The four critical strategies presented based on the SWOTs identified could help EPC firms develop and promote EPC to implement BRI infrastructure projects in WA at the strategic level.

scholarly journals James Hamilton McLean: The master of the Gastropoda

Zoosymposia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-43
Author(s):  
LINDSEY T. GROVES ◽  
DANIEL L. GEIGER ◽  
JANN E. VENDETTI ◽  
EUGENE V. COAN
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Current Status ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Type Information

A biography of the late James H. McLean, former Curator of Malacology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is provided. It is complemented with a full bibliography and list of 344 taxa named by him and co-authors (with type information and current status), as well as 40 patronyms.

Pengembangan Sistem Manajemen Event Pameran Karya Mahasiswa Menggunakan Metode Extreme Programming

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 809-819
Author(s):  
Ahmad Ali Mutezar ◽  
Umniy Salamah
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
System Development ◽  
Extreme Programming ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Event Data ◽  
Event Management ◽  
Soft Skill ◽  
Registration Process ◽  
User Expectations ◽  
Box Method

An event is a means for students to improve their soft skill and hard skill. In college, one kind of event that usually held regularly is an exhibition. It is usually held around the universities environtment, but in practice there are still some shortcomings, such as the registration process is done manually, attendance of participants that are not integrated with the system, and unavailability of certificates for participants who have attended the event. Since the outbreak of Covid-19, organizing the events must be done online, so we need a system that can accommodate this. Therefore, this study aims to create an event management system that can manage exhibition event data. Besides, the system is also equipped with a feature to generate an E-Certificate that has a QR Code embedded. The method used in this study is Extreme Programming, with its flexible nature toward changes to facilitate the process of system development. The testing in this study is using black box method, with the test results show that all functional in the system can run well in accordance with user expectations. The use of the Extreme Programming method produces a quality system, because users are involved during the system development process.  

Water and sanitation in Africa: current status, trends, challenges and opportunities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Kararach ◽  
Tito Yepes
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Rural Poverty ◽  
Water Security ◽  
River Basins ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Hydrological Variability ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Africa faces difficult water/sanitation legacies in the form of high hydrological variability and a multiplicity of transboundary river basins alongside poor sanitation. These challenges impeded the continent’s economic growth. Balanced investments in water resource and sanitation infrastructure and institutions are needed to increase productive uses of water, to mitigate the effect of recurrent floods and droughts, and to achieve basic water security as a platform for Africa’s economic growth. Priority should be given to investments that (a) focus on growth, (b) reduce rural poverty, (c) build climate resilience and adaptation, and (d) foster cooperation in international river basins. Because most African countries have low stocks of hydraulic infrastructure, emphasizing investments in infrastructure is appropriate for them. However, institution building and reform, improvements in water/sanitation management and operations, and strengthening of water information systems must complement growth in infrastructure. Development of institutions should be advanced in parallel with infrastructure investment.

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