The Shirley Highway corridor express bus transit improvement program recommended in the report has already been initiated. Travel time savings over previous conditions gained by morning peak-period commuters are up to 20 minutes. With normal rush hour travel times between corridor residential areas and central employment locations in the District of Columbia of 40 to 60 minutes, the above immediate improvement is significant. Estimates of the effect of this major upgrading of mass transportation service, the first of its kind in the country, have indicated that in addition to this direct benefit there will be overall reductions in peak-period traffic congestion on the Shirley Highway and on the downtown Washington street system, reduced demand for parking in the District and along major corridor arterial streets, reduced levels of air pollution, availability of a through route on the Shirley Highway for emergency use and for construction operations, and the opportunity to demonstrate the potential of high-quality express but rapid transit as an integral part of the balanced urban transportation system. (Author)
Feasibility Study for Bus Rapid Transit in the Shirley Highway Corridor
1970
122 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Civil Engineering , Management Practice , Urban transportation , Bus lines , Passenger transportation , Feasibility , Highways , Surveys , Management planning , Systems analysis , Travel time , Benefit cost analysis , Atmosphere contamination control , Parking facilities , Federal budgets , District of Columbia , Virginia , Reserved highway lanes , Shirley Highway corridor , Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments , Metro transit system
Freeway and rapid transit share corridor
Engineering Index Backfile | 1968
|Shirley Highway Bus-on-Freeway Project Evaluation Study
NTIS | 1974
|Mode Choice and the Shirley Highway Experiment
NTIS | 1973
|Highway Transit: Bus, Trolleybus, and Bus Rapid Transit
Wiley | 2007
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