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Risk Matrix
HAMPTON RAODS ECO-RAIL
November 15, 2014
Prepared for:
Prof Mark Mateski
The George Washington University
Prepared by:
Derek Cunningham: ______________________
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Background of Hampton Roads & The Needfor the System of Interest:
Hampton Roads, Virginia is known for being a coastal region with a sizable military
presence, and a total population size estimated at 1.7 million, ranked 37th in the
United States. Current transportation infrastructure has been a major challenge for
Hampton Roads, with the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel and the Monitor-Merrimac
Memorial Bridge-Tunnel used to link large populations over the harbor (H-Roads,
2014). According to The Daily Beast, Hampton Roads trafficking system is ranked
18th for the worst traffic in the Untied States (Daily Beast, 2011). The Hampton
Roads Eco-Rail looks to provide the solution needed in this coastal region.
System Introduction:
The Hampton Roads Eco-Rail looks to revolutionize the way we travel in Hampton
Roads and plans to be available for public use in 2034. This system will feature
magnetic levitation technology, which will replace the wheeled train technology.
The conventional infrastructure for wheeled train technology will not support the
Eco-Rail system, thus design and development of new city transportation
infrastructure must be implemented during project development. This system will
manage current traffic needs and will account for future economical growth. The
railing system will be approximately 150 miles in length, connecting Williamsburg,
Newport News, Hampton, Poquoson, Suffolk, Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth and
Virginia Beach (Diagram 1). The project management team will control the project
portfolio, which will include, budgetary needs, stakeholders, external and internal
interfaces, the systems life cycle plan and risks associated with the project.
Diagram 1: An observational picture displaying the transportation infrastructure of
the Eco-Rail in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia. The railing system will
contain 5 different colored lines (Red, Green, Blue, Purple, and Black) and 29
stations that are represented as circles in the picture.
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System Technology:
The Hampton Roads Eco-Rail looks to exploit the weaknesses of the current
transportation infrastructure by creating an economically friendly train system that
utilizes electro magnetic propulsion, by using magnetic levitation. This technology
allows the train with a magnetic undercarriage, to levitate above the track by
creating a magnetic field from sending electric current to coils, which are in the
guide walls, and the track (Diagram 2). The magnetic field can be controlled by the
amount of electric current sent to the coils, which will cause a change in the polarity
in the magnetic coils, this change in polarity will cause the train be propelled along
the track with the trains electric motor. Thus this technology provides a means of
travel without the utilization of fossil fuels, making it an eco-friendly solution to the
way we travel (Bonsor, 2000).
Diagram 2: An observational display of the system magnetic levitation technology
(Bonsor, 2000).
Funding and Approval:
The project will be funded by grants from federal, state, and local entities and
incentives funded by the Environmental Protection Agency. The funds will be used
for pre-construction planning, initial project development/design, project analysis,
and constant project evaluations. The results from system analysis testing will grant
approval from the Department of Transportation, Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, Federal Railroad Administration, Federal Government, State
Government, City councils, and taxpayers. Once the Hampton Roads Eco-Rail system
has been approved, further funding by grants will be rewarded, these funds will
allow for the implementation and integration of the system to it’s operational
environment. The total budget for the project will amount to approximately 1 billion
dollars, taking into account of future inflation.
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System Development Overview:
The Hampton Roads Eco-Rail is expected to revolutationize the current city
transportation infrastructure in 20 years. During the fisrt 4 years of the project
much focus will be spent on the pre-construction planning, initial project
development/design, and project analysis to gain appropriate approval needed to
continue with the project development. In the next 3 years, much of our effort will
focus on working closely with our contractor to evaluate engineering and
technology tradeoffs for intelligent design selections. In our 7th year, we will work
closely with our contractor, with our decisions and oversights to support their
construction and testing or validation of the product in its defined environment. In
8th year, we will begin the implementation of the product in undefined
environments to discover any gross misconception error and limitations that were
not anticipated during our system development phase. In our 9th year, we will have
our system intergated in its orperational enviroment with a large scale construction
process that is antcipated to take 11 years to complete, leading to our estimated
system completion date in year 2035. System operations are expected to maintained
for use for a 30 year period after the completion date of year 2035. The retirement
phase is esitmated to be implemented in year 2065, which will take approxipately 5
years for deactivation of the Hampton Roads Eco-Rail system, leading to system
inactivation completion in year 2070. These dates are subject to change with
constaint evolution of the system success within its operational environment.
