Transit: Intermodal Facilities and Capacity, Light Rail, Commuter Rail, and Rail Transit, and Major Activity Center Circulation Systems
- ISBN-10
- 0309113091
- ISBN-13
- 9780309113090
- Series
- Transit
- Pages
- 116
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Transportation Research Board of the National Academies
- Author
- National Research Council
Description
TRR no. 2042 includes 12 papers divided into Part I: Intermodal and Capacity which relates to air passenger preferences and ground access mode, investigating consistency in transit passenger arrivals, and analysis of transit quality of service and employment accessibility. Part 2: Light Rail, Commuter Rail, and Rail Transit which involves process management in public transit planning, active transit signal priority for streetcars, historic streetcar service, light rail cost functions, boarding and alighting, bus-rail service and commuter rail circulator route network design. Part 3; Major Activity Center Circulation Systems provides information on new-generation personal rapid transit (PRT) technologies and choosing locations for urban transit hubs.
