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Category : Urban transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Urban Mass Transportation; a Bibliography
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Category : Urban transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Urban Mass Transportation Abstracts
Author: Urban Mass Transit
Author: Robert C. PostPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313085196
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This volume in the Greenwood Technographies series covers urban mass transit - that is, the technologies that allow cities to move large numbers of people around. Just a few hundred years ago, the size of cities was limited by the time it took people to move from one part of the city to another. The development of successive technologies has forever altered the urban landscape. From horse-drawn omnibuses to subways to current 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.
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.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
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Resource Guide to Literature on Barrier-free Environments, with Selected Annotations
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Category : Architecture and the handicapped
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Urban Mass Transportation Abstracts Cumulative Bibliography, 1974-1980: Index
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
7064 abstracts covering urban mass transportation added to the Transportation Research Information Service (TRIS) data base between 1974 and 1980.
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