Author: Thomas Curtis ClarkePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 15
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Rapid Transit in Cities - The Problem; The Solution
Author: Thomas Curtis ClarkeA Solution of the Rapid Transit Problem in New York City by a New Method of Operating Subways Or Overhead Railways
Author: Walter WellmanThe Solution of a City's Transit Problem
Author: A. Merritt TaylorPublisher:
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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The New Rapid Transit Problem
Author: Interborough Rapid Transit CompanyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Restructuring Public Transport Through Bus Rapid Transit
Author: Munoz, Juan CarlosPublisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447326164
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is increasingly being discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transit infrastructure. This is the first book to examine the opportunities presented by BRT along with the significant challenges cities face in the implementation of successful systems. The difficulties can be myriad: new institutional relationships have to be developed among governments, operators, and the public; projects have to be designed and implemented to handle large passenger flows in the most efficient manner possible; and these changes are not taking place on a blank slate, but within existing transportation systems, political and cultural contexts, and urban development patterns. Addressing these challenges from an international perspective and across a range of disciplines, from urban planning to public policy and economics, contributors offer technical solutions to specific problems and identify what still needs to be done to realize their vision of global sustainable transport.
Alternate Route
Author: Clifford WinstonPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815705352
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Urban transportation problems abound across America, including jammed highways during rush-hours, deteriorating bus service, and strong pressures to build new rail systems. Most solutions attempt either to increase transportation capacity (by building more roads and expanding mass transit) or to manage existing capacity (through HOV restrictions, exclusive bus lanes, and employer-based policies such as flexible work hours). This book develops an alternative solution to urban transportation problems based on economic analysis, but well aware of the political constraints on policymakers. The authors estimate that efficient pricing and service policies could save more than $10 billion in annual net benefits over current practices, but argue that powerful, entrenched political and institutional forces will continue to thwart efficient economic solutions to improve urban transportation. They believe, however, that some form of privatization would likely improve social welfare more than an efficient public sector system. Facing fewer operating restrictions, greater economic incentives, and stronger competitive pressures, private suppliers could substantially improve the efficiency of urban operations and offer services that are more responsive to the needs of all types of travelers. The authors conclude that policymakers have bestowed huge benefits on the public by allowing the private sector to play a leading and unencumbered role in the provision of intercity transportation. Public officials should take the next step and allow the private sector to play a leading role in the provision of urban transportation.
Capital-intensive Rapid Transit Systems
Author: Benjamin Gerry PerezPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Transportation Renaissance
Author: Edmund W. F. RydellPublisher:
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The full story of Personal Rapid Transit, a driverless, computer-controlled system of public transportation, has never before been told. Parts of this story have been told over and over again in countless meetings with government authorities at all levels and to many potential investors. It has been described in several technical books devoted to the subject, in hundreds of technical papers, and in the published proceedings of the International Conferences on PRT which have been held, usually at the major universities. But none of these sources tell the whole story. This is the first book to do so, and in a style that is enlightening, entertaining, and at times quite humorous. Despite his lighthearted fashion, the author shows how time and again the cause of PRT has been set back, sometimes unwittingly, by governmental and other forces, sometimes, but not always, acting in the perceived best interest of the public. Yet the proponents of PRT have managed to struggle on. PRT today is more thoroughly engineered prior to its commercialization than any other form of transportation in history. We stand today on the threshold of its realization. It is just a question of time until many of the cities of the world will have this revolutionary form of transportation.
The Transit Problems of New York City
Author: Delos Franklin WilcoxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
A Discussion of the Rapid Transit Problem in and about New York by the City Plan Committee of the Municipal Art Society
Author: Municipal Art Society of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description