CAHSR plans to eventually operate on dedicated, grade-separated tracks for the entirety of its route between San Jose and Burbank with speeds of up to . The San Francisco–San Jose and Los Angeles–Anaheim sections will be shared with local trains in a "blended system", such as is common in Europe. The project is owned and managed by the state of California through the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA). The Bakersfield to Los Angeles segment would be the first instance of a direct passenger train route between the cities since the termination of the Southern Pacific Railroad's "San Joaquin Daylight" in 1971.