Public transportation is a key component of comprehensive and coordinated regional transportation system. This chapter examines this role from the perspective of the magnitude of trip‐making and the impacts that transit has on a community's economic and quality of life. It discusses different models of transit ownership and governance. The chapter focuses on contemporary transit in North America, including an overview of how the transit industry has evolved over time. It provides statistics on transit service, including ridership, trip lengths, and operating speeds. The chapter describes of typical transit planning procedures, including estimating transit ridership. Passenger stations and stops are an important component of transit systems, and the chapter describes both the planning process and design approaches for passenger stations. It examines network structure and how individual transit lines are combined to form a system. The chapter discusses transit route planning and of analysis approaches for assessing route‐level performance.
Transit Planning
Transportation Planning Handbook ; 485-579
18.07.2016
95 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
SLUB | 1980
NTIS | 1974
|Transit Planning and Management
NTIS | 1981
|Transit Planning and Development
NTIS | 1973
|Transit planning and technology
TIBKAT | 1985
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