Oklahoma City to South Texas Passenger Rail Corridor SCORT Presentation March 2010

1. Oklahoma City to South Texas Passenger Rail CorridorSCORT Presentation March 2010

2. Texas Rail Plan • Final Texas Rail Plan (TRP) approved by Texas Transportation Commission November 18, 2010 • Submitted to FRA January 2010 • Establishes Short-Term and Long-Term Program • Short-Term • Statewide ridership • Prioritization of corridors • Long-Term • Further development of the corridors • Received $5.6 million in planning grants to study the Oklahoma City to South Texas Corridor for SDP and Service NEPA. 2

3. OKC – STX Corridor 3

4. OKC – STX Corridor • Overall funding of corridor - $14 Million • HSIPR Planning Grant $5.6 Million • Texas State Appropriations $2.8 Million • Statewide Planning and Research Funds $3.0 Million • Additional Need $2.6 Million $14.0 Million • Potential additional funding sources • Statewide Planning and Research Funds • North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) • Oklahoma Issues • Jurisdictional boundaries for funding • Geographic limits on funding sources • Scope of work limitations with funding sources 4

5. OKC – STX Corridor • Contracting • HNTB • Existing infrastructure study – March 2011 start • Ridership analysis (part of grant scope) – start after SOW is approved by FRA • Funded with Statewide Planning and Research Funds • Study limits – Oklahoma City to South Texas • Remaining tasks for Service Development Plan and Service Level NEPA • To be contracted as a project specific contract with limits from Oklahoma City to South Texas • Data and other information from the Austin-San Antonio corridor to be coordinated with Lone Star Rail District 5

6. OKC – STX Corridor • Oklahoma City to Dallas-Fort Worth • Coordinated with ODOT and BNSF; also with KDOT/ODOT study to run service from Kansas City to OKC/Ft. Worth • BNSF corridor modeling for additional service • TTI Heartland Flyer Study, April 2010 • On Board Surveys • TxDOT Dallas-Fort Worth Region Freight Study Dallas-Fort Worth to Round Rock • IH-35 Corridor Program Studies • Origin/ Destination Study for Auto Travel • IH-35 Corridor Segment Committee Proposals • TTI Research Study (Potential Development of an Intercity Passenger Rail Transit System in Texas) – May 2010 6

7. OKC – STX Corridor • Round Rock to San Antonio • Coordinated with Lone Star Rail District but different purpose and need • San Antonio to South Texas • TTI Study • TxDOT San Antonio Region Freight Study • TxDOT Lower Rio Grande Valley/Laredo Region Freight Study • TxDOT Corpus Christi/Yoakum Region Freight Study • Other reasons to extend to South Texas • PRIIA required study to extend South Central HSR Corridor • Bus travel information • Congressional interest • Interest from LULAC 7

8. Questions/Issues • Coordination with adjacent states and their efforts • Multiple service levels with in one corridor • Differing levels of service along different segments of the corridor (does that actually make for separate corridors?) • Coordination of efforts that were underway prior to HSIPR • Incorporating commuter service within the corridor