The Florida Department of Transportation asked RLBA to assist in its effort to negotiate new shared use commuter rail service on CSX. RLBA prepared: 1)a valuation of a perpetual easement underlying prospective operation of the regional passenger rail service; 2)a maintenance of way and dispatching primer; 3)a review of the freight railroad’s operating plan in order to facilitate initiation of new passenger rail service; 4)a review of the precedents and recommendations with regard to track use, maintenance of way and dispatching fees, in negotiated access agreements between commuter rail and freight rail carriers; 5)a narrative summary of commuter and freight rail operations and 6)a valuation of the freight railroad’s main line infrastructure. This effort included contacting a number of commuter rail operations to obtain copies of their agreements with freight railroads and to generate other necessary data, as well as preparation of a spreadsheet model which could incorporate access fees negotiated by other commuter rail properties and discounting them to a net present value.