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Title:

SAN FRANCISCO MUNI METRO: OPERATING ISSUES AND STRATEGIES

Accession Number:

00371631

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/0360859X

Abstract:

The advent of a light rail vehicle system presented the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) with new challenges associated with operating a high-speed subway system. The Metro, as the system is known, is a subway and surface operation on five existing streetcar lines in San Francisco. It carries about 120,000 passengers per day. Muni was able to run extensive tests with its new fleet of LRVs before starting revenue service to check operating characteristics, especially the ability to couple and run a multi-car train. Muni's start-up strategy for a gradual phase-in of LRV service provided opportunities to learn about a far more complex operating environment than traditional streetcar operation. It became apparent in the early operational phases that a traditional schedule approach was unworkable. Before full-scale operation began, it was decided to abandon the usual schedules and use a "dynamic schedule." By headwaying the cars and providing a pool of fallback operators, it was hoped to maximize the use of the LRVs and help meet the ever-increasing demand of Metro passengers. This headway and fallback system was refined to help Metro break the turnaround bottleneck at the Embarcadero Station, which limited the system's capacity. In addition, a central trainmaster at Van Ness Station improved the consistency of service. The headway and fallback system's shortcomings include partially developed crew dispatching and trainmaster procedures and stacking of outbound trains caused by system saturation.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper appeared in Transportation Research Board Special Report No. 195, Light Rail Transit: Planning, Design, and Implementation. Papers presented at the Conference on Light Rail Transit, March 28-30, 1982, San Diego, California, sponsored by Urban Mass Transportation Administration. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

Monograph Accession #:

00371601

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Rosen, D
Olson, L

Pagination:

pp 141-144

Publication Date:

1982

Serial:

Transportation Research Board Special Report

Issue Number: 195
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0360-859X

Conference:

Conference on Light-Rail Transit

Location: San Francisco California, United States
Date: 1982-3-28 to 1982-3-30
Sponsors: Urban Mass Transportation Administration

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

References (3)

Geographic Terms:

San Francisco (California)

Old TRIS Terms:

San Francisco (California)

Subject Areas:

Administration and Management; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Apr 29 1983 12:00AM

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