Context Sensitive Solutions Toolkit

The Peninsula Rail Program has developed the Context Sensitive Solutions Tool Kit for stakeholders of the San Francisco to San Jose section of the California High-Speed Train Project. The purpose of the tool kit is to provide a methodical approach for technical and project information and for soliciting a wide range of inputs that will be used to shape the project alternatives.

The tool kit includes:

• Reference Documents - These provide typical information about the multitude of factors that must be considered to develop this project for this corridor.
• Exercises - The exercises aid in identifying and broadening the understanding of what is desirable and feasible and are the bridge or translator between the community goals and the project design.
  
  1. Exercise 1 - Mapping Context
  2. Exercise 2 - Grade Separation Methods
  3. Exercise 3 - Stitching the Corridor Together
  4. Exercise 4 - Stations
  5. Exercise 5 - Local Design Solutions

The tool kit provides options so stakeholders can select the tools that are of interest to them. Some may find that a lot of questions are answered simply by reading the different reference documents. Others may choose to complete just one or two of the exercises. More information and exercises will be added to the tool kit over the life of the project, and all will be available on this website.

Links:

The following are links to the available reference documents and exercises. All documents have been assigned to different chapters so Stakeholders can create a complete workbook of the documents provided. Updates and new additions will be added over time.

Cover (PDF, 20KB)

1. Process Documents
   • Context Sensitive Solutions Process and FAQs(3/24/10 - PDF, 206KB)
   • Technical Working Group Role(3/22/10 - PDF, 206KB)
2. Schedule/Calendar
   • CSS Steps Integrated with Environmental Process(3/22/10 - PDF, 56KB)
   • Caltrain and CHSRA Board meetings(3/22/10 - PDF, 82KB)
   • Technical Working Group and Policymaker Working Group Workplan (7/15/10 - PDF, 116KB)
3. Participants
   • Technical Working Group and Policymaker Working Group Members(3/22/10 - PDF, 47KB)
   • Project Team Contacts(3/22/10 - PDF, 81KB)
4. Reference Materials
• CHSRA documents (link)
• Defining the Issues
  
• Issues, Values, and Goals Matrix(3/31/10 - PDF, 97KB)
• Opportunities Matrix(3/31/10 - PDF, 67KB)
• Context
  
• Systemwide Context(3/16/10 - PDF, 140KB)
• Grade Separation Methods/Vertical Options Context(3/15/10 - PDF, 218KB)
• Design/Project Implications for Design Priorities & Goals(7/15/10 - PDF, 119KB)
• Preliminary Alternatives Analysis
  
• Preliminary Alternatives Analysis Report and Appendices(external link)
• Typical Cross Sections(external PDF link)
• Supplemental Alternatives Analysis
• Supplemental Alternatives Analysis Report and Appendices (external link)
• High-speed Train Stations
  
• HST Station Development Policies(external link)
• CHSRA Technical Memorandum / Policy: Station Program Design Guidelines(external link)
• CHSRA Technical memorandum: High-Speed Train Passenger Station Site Design Guidelines(external link)
• Sound 
• Presentation on Noise and Visual Analysis for the SF-SJ Draft EIR (within TWG presentation) (PDF, 4.4MB)
• CHSRA Sound Fact Sheet  (external link)
• CHSRA Presentation (accompanies fact sheet) (PDF, 1.3MB)
• Glossary of Terms and Acronyms 
(3/22/10 - PDF, 227KB)
5. Exercises
   1. Mapping Context
      • Exercise 1 Tutorial- (.pps, 2.14MB)
      • Summary of Subsections(PDF, 84KB)
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      • Exercise 1 Worksheet: Subsection 1A - 1D(.xls, 1.7MB)
      • Exercise 1 Worksheet: Subsection 1E - 1G(.xls, 1.6MB)
      • Exercise 1 Worksheet: Subsection 2A(.xls, 1.5MB)
      • Exercise 1 Worksheet: Subsection 2B - 2D(.xls, 2.6MB)
      • Exercise 1 Worksheet: Subsection 3A - 3B(.xls, 2.1MB)
      • Exercise 1 Worksheet: Subsection 3C - 3E(.xls, 1.7MB)
      • Exercise 1 Worksheet: Subsection 4A - 4B(.xls, 3.0MB)
      • Exercise 1 Worksheet: Subsection 4C - 4D(.xls, 1.8MB)
      • Exercise 1 Worksheet: Subsection 5A - 5C(.xls, 1.8MB)
      • Exercise 1 Worksheet: Subsection 6A - 6B(.xls, 1.5MB)
      • Exercise 1 Worksheet: Subsection 6C - 6D(.xls, 1.5MB)
      • Exercise 1 Worksheet: Subsection 7A - 7B(.xls, 1.9MB)
      • Exercise 1 Worksheet: Subsection 7C - 7D(.xls, 2.0MB)
      • Exercise 1 Worksheet: Subsection 8A - 8B(.xls, 2.4MB)
      • Exercise 1 Worksheet: Subsection 9A - 9B(.xls, 1.4MB)
   2. Grade Separations/Vertical Options(3/31/10 - .xls, 229KB)
      • Exercise 2 Tutorial- (.pps, 1.14MB)
   3. Stitching the Corridor Together – NOTE: For TWG Only
      
      • Guidelines (7/16/10 - PDF, 371KB)
      • Results (7/16/10 - PDF, 105KB)
      • Comparison of Supplemental Alternatives Analysis Design Options with TWG Stitched Together Corridor (9/1/10 - PDF, 32KB)
      • Map of Supplemental Alternatives Analysis Design Options and TWG Stitched Corridors (PDF, 3.6MB)
   4. Stations - Future exercise
   5. Local Design Solutions - Future exercise
6. Meeting Presentations & Summaries
   
   • Community Workshops
   • Technical and Policymaker Working Group Meetings
7. Public Information / Handouts
8. Correspondence
9. Local Design Solutions