Author: Benjamin Gerry Perez
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Capital-intensive Rapid Transit Systems
Author: Benjamin Gerry Perez
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Access and the Choice of Transit Technology
Author: Karthikgeyan Sivakumaran
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Languages : en
Pages : 152
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An urban transit system can be made more cost-efficient by improving the access to it. Efforts in this vein often entail the provision of greater mobility, as when high-speed feeder buses are used to carry commuters to and from trunk-line stations. Other efforts have focused on the creation of more favorable land-use patterns, as occurs when households within a Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) are tightly clustered around trunk stations. The efficacy of these mobility and land-use solutions are separately examined in the present work. To this end, continuum approximation models are used to design idealized transit systems that minimize the generalized costs to both the users and the operators of those systems. The assessments unveil how the choice of rolling-stock for the trunk-line portion of a transit network can be influenced by its access mode. If transit is accessed solely (and slowly) on foot, then the optimal spacings between lines, and between the stations along those lines, are small. This can place capital-intensive rail systems at a competitive disadvantage with transit systems that feature buses instead. When access speeds increase, the optimal spacings between lines and stops expand as well. Hence, if accessed by fast-moving feeder buses, Metro-rail or bus-rapid transit can become preferred trunk-line options. By comparison, the influence of altered land use patterns brought by TODs was found to be less dramatic. While clustering households around Metro-rail stations justifies larger spacings between the stations, it yields only modest reductions in generalized costs because the larger spacings penalize transit users who reside outside of the TODs.
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Languages : en
Pages : 152
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An urban transit system can be made more cost-efficient by improving the access to it. Efforts in this vein often entail the provision of greater mobility, as when high-speed feeder buses are used to carry commuters to and from trunk-line stations. Other efforts have focused on the creation of more favorable land-use patterns, as occurs when households within a Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) are tightly clustered around trunk stations. The efficacy of these mobility and land-use solutions are separately examined in the present work. To this end, continuum approximation models are used to design idealized transit systems that minimize the generalized costs to both the users and the operators of those systems. The assessments unveil how the choice of rolling-stock for the trunk-line portion of a transit network can be influenced by its access mode. If transit is accessed solely (and slowly) on foot, then the optimal spacings between lines, and between the stations along those lines, are small. This can place capital-intensive rail systems at a competitive disadvantage with transit systems that feature buses instead. When access speeds increase, the optimal spacings between lines and stops expand as well. Hence, if accessed by fast-moving feeder buses, Metro-rail or bus-rapid transit can become preferred trunk-line options. By comparison, the influence of altered land use patterns brought by TODs was found to be less dramatic. While clustering households around Metro-rail stations justifies larger spacings between the stations, it yields only modest reductions in generalized costs because the larger spacings penalize transit users who reside outside of the TODs.
Capital Grants and Recurrent Subsidies
Author: James Ortner
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Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Evolutionary Improvements in Urban Transportation Systems
Author: Westinghouse Air Brake Company
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Transportation in the National Capital Region
Author: National Capital Transportation Agency (U.S.)
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Transportation in the National Capital Region
Author: National Capital Transportation Agency (U.S.)
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Evaluation of Rail Rapid Transit & Express Bus Service in the Urban Commuter Market
Author: J. Hayden Boyd
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Category : Bus lines
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Category : Bus lines
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Opportunities for Improving the Effectiveness of Rapid Transit Grants : Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Department of Transportation
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Light Rail Transit
Bus Rapid Transit and Other Bus Service Innovations
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Publisher:
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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