01106157

Monograph

This collection of 12 papers is concerned with the following areas of transit: intermodal facilities and capacity; light rail, commuter rail, and rail transit; and major activity center circulation systems. The papers dealing with intermodal facilities and capacity examine airport ground access, consistency in transit passenger arrivals, and transit quality of service and employment accessibility. The rail transit papers discuss process management in public transit planning, active transit signal priority for streetcars, successful historic streetcar service, light rail cost functions and technical inefficiency, boarding and alighting experiments, bus-rail service integration, and commuter rail circulator route network design. The papers in the last section are concerned with new-generation personal rapid transit technologies and cluster-based optimization of urban transit hub locations.

English

2008

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309113090

Print

Figures; Photos; References; Tables

Activity centers; Airport access; Arrivals and departures; Boarding and alighting; Hubs; Intermodal facilities; Light rail transit; Optimization; Personal rapid transit; Public transit; Quality of service; Railroad commuter service; Streetcars; Traffic signal preemption

Access to jobs; Circulation systems (Transportation); Integrated transportation systems; Process management; Service integration; Transit capacity

Aviation; Finance; Highways; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Aug 6 2008 12:41PM

• Active Transit Signal Priority for Streetcars: Experience in Melbourne, Australia, and Toronto, Canada
• Air Passenger Preferences for Choice of Airport and Ground Access Mode in the New York City Metropolitan Region
• Analysis of Transit Quality of Service and Employment Accessibility for the Greater Chicago, Illinois, Region
• Boarding and Alighting Experiments: Overview of Setup and Performance and Some Preliminary Results
• Cluster-Based Optimization of Urban Transit Hub Locations: Methodology and Case Study in China
• Commuter Rail Circulator Route Network Design and Its Implications for Transit Accessibility
• Investigating Consistency in Transit Passenger Arrivals: Insights from Longitudinal Automated Fare Collection Data
• Light Rail Cost Functions and Technical Inefficiency
• New-Generation Personal Rapid Transit Technologies: Overview and Comparison
• Process Management in Public Transit Planning: Case Study of Introduction Project of Light Rail Transit in Toyama, Japan
• Service Orientation, Bus-Rail Service Integration, and Transit Performance: Examination of 45 U.S. Metropolitan Areas
• Successful Historic Streetcar Service: Learning from the San Francisco, California, Experience