EMC in Utility Corridors the Aerospace Corporation

The corridor concept entails the grouping of power, communications, pipelines, railroads, and highways in one overall right-of-way in order to minimize land usage. This grouping of utilities, while advantageous from a land usage point of view, raises strong technical problems of interference between the utilities. Certainly, the need for any utility corridor concept must assess issues such as land use, environmental, social, economic, aesthetic and legal factors. The technical feasibility aspect, however, must focus on the interaction between the various using utilities and try to determine certain minimum widths for a utility corridor within which these utilities can compatibly operate. In such an evaluation, the effects of various corridor widths have to be analyzed in relation to protective measures and added costs.