Short-Range Transit Planning: Current Practice and a Proposed Framework

Details

• Creators:
  Wilson, Nigel H.M. ; Bauer, Amy ; Gonzalez, Sergio ; Shriver, John
• Corporate Creators:
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Transportation Studies
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Transit Administration. University Research and Training Program ; United States. Urban Mass Transit Administration. ; United States. Department of Transportation. Technology Sharing Division
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Urban areas
  • State of the practice
  • Transportation planning
  • Mass transit
  • Urban design
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT-I-84-44
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1404688
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Final report Sept. 1980 - Jan. 1984
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Abstract:
  The research described in this report explored the service and operations planning process in the transit industry in a two-phase approach. In the first phase a detailed assessment of current short range transit planning practice was undertaken through a survey of a dozen transit properties and a detailed investigation of two properties. This phase of the research provided a fuller understanding of the existing process, the constraints which any changes in the process should satisfy, and the weaknesses both as recognized by the planners themselves and as identified by disinterested observers. Frcsn this base, the second phase suggested a framework for structuring improvements to the planning process to deal with some of the more significant deficiencies.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  MA-11-0035
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/13352/dot_13352_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.43 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a661d7954b73a3233d608c2fda3da17549126b23b346c67c47d47dd77a9c1b7c