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Risk MatrixEMSE 6805

Risk Matrix

HAMPTON RAODS ECO-RAIL

November 15, 2014

Prepared for:

Prof Mark MateskiThe George Washington University

Prepared by:

Derek Cunningham: ______________________

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Background of Hampton Roads & The Need for 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.

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Bibliography

Citation: (Bonsor, 2000)Bonsor, Kevin. "How Maglev Trains Work" 13 October 2000. HowStuffWorks.com. <http://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/engines-equipment/maglev-train.htm> 15 November 2014.

Citation: (Daily Beast, 2011)The Daily Beast. "50 Worst Commutes: America's Highways to Hell." The Daily Beast. N.p., 7 May 2011. Web. 15 Nov. 2014.

Citation: (H-Roads, 2014)"Hampton Roads." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 15 Nov. 2014. Web. 15 Nov. 2014.

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