Author: M. D. HarmelinkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation, Automotive
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
New developments in mass transit technology
Author: M. D. HarmelinkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation, Automotive
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Urban Mass Transit
Author: Robert C. PostPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 9780801893155
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Technological choices depend on, and are part of, contests over political power, as the history of mass transit vividly illustrates. From horse-drawn omnibuses to subways to light rail, this volume highlights the technological and social struggles that have accompanied urbanization and the need for an efficient and cost-effective means of transportation in cities. Post depicts mass transit as a technology—rather, as a technological system—that provided an essential complement to industrialization, urbanization, and, ultimately, to the rise of consumer culture. He begins his narrative with the omnibus and horsecar in the 1830s and takes it to the renaissance of urban mass transit at the turn of the 21st century. Post focuses on innovations in the United States as well as worldwide developments. At the heart of the story is the streetcar, a conveyance that played a central role in the development of all U.S. cities and towns. For generations of Americans, streetcars were essential to everyday life. Once dominating the urban landscape in towns and cities throughout the United States, the streetcar has all but disappeared. Post traces its evolution and demise, debunking the urban myth that the downfall of the electric streetcar was directly attributable to the corporate malfeasance of General Motors and others from the automotive world. Post concludes with a meditation on the prospects for mass transit in a postmodern society that must face up to the contradictions of privatized mobility and the reality of dwindling natural resources.
Oversight of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration's Technology Development and Equipment Procurement Programs (bus and Rail Rolling Stock)
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Oversight and ReviewPublisher:
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Category : Bus lines
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Oversight of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration's technology development and equipment procurement programs (bus and rail rolling stock)
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Oversight and ReviewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bus lines
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Urban Mass Transit R. & D.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Transportation, Aviation, and CommunicationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The State of Urban Mass Transportation Research, Development and Demonstration: Summary.-v.2. UMTA R&D findings and projects.-v.3.Bus transit.-v.4.Rail transit.-v.5.New systems.-v.6.Systems analysis
Author: People Mover Profile
Author: United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration. Office of Technology Development and DeploymentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Energy, the Economy, and Mass Transit
Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology AssessmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Energy policy
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Urban Transit Systems and Technology
Author: Vukan R. VuchicPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 047175823X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
This is the only current and in print book covering the full field of transit systems and technology. Beginning with a history of transit and its role in urban development, the book proceeds to define relevant terms and concepts, and then present detailed coverage of all urban transit modes and the most efficient system designs for each. Including coverage of such integral subjects as travel time, vehicle propulsion, system integration, fully supported with equations and analytical methods, this book is the primary resource for students of transit as well as those professionals who design and operate these key pieces of urban infrastructure.
Moving the Masses
Author: Charles W. CheapePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674588271
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The development of public transit is an integral part of both business and urban history in late nineteenth-century America. The author begins this study in 1880, when public transportation in large American cities was provided by numerous, competing horse-car companies with little or no public control of operation. By 1912, when the study concludes, a monopoly in each city operated a coordinated network of electric-powered streetcars and, in the largest cities, subways, which were regulated by city and state agencies. The history of transit development reflects two dominant themes: the constant pressure of rapid growth in city population and area and the requirements of the technology developed to service that growth. The case studies here include three of the four cites that had rapid transit during this period. Each case study examines, first, the mechanization of surface lines and, second, the implementation of rapid transit. New York requires an additional chapter on steam-powered, elevated railroads, for early population growth there required rapid transit before the invention of electric technology. Urban transit enterprise is viewed within a clear and familiar pattern of evolution--the pattern of the last half of the nineteenth century, when industries with expanding markets and complex, costly processes of production and distribution adopted new strategy and structure, administered by a new class of professional managers.