This report will be of interest to transportation and rail-transit planners, designers, and operators responsible for determining the passenger-carrying capacity of rail lines for rapid rail transit, light rail transit commuter rail, and automated guideway transit. The report provides a comprehensive description of the factors that determine rail transit capacity and easy-to-use procedures for estimating practical achievable rail transit capacity under a variety of conditions, calibrated with extensive, current, North American field data. Examples of applications for the rail transit capacity information found in this report include analyzing project planning and operations for new starts and extensives; evaluating transit line performance; establishing and updating service standards; assessing the capacities of new signaling and control technologies; and, estimating changes in system capacity and operations for environmental impact assessments and land-use variations.


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