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Cost estimates for selected California smart traveler operation tests. Volume 1, technical report
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1993-03-01
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Abstract:The original "California Smart Traveler" report describes how telephone-based information systems can be used to develop new types of public transportation services (e.g. single-trip carpools) and to integrate these new services with conventional transit, paratransit and ridesharing modes. This report provides estimates of the costs of conducting operational tests of California Smart Traveler concepts in 1) San Ramon/Pleasanton/Livermore, 2) UCLA/Westwood, and 3) San Diego's North City area. These cost estimates were based in large measure on data from Germany and on discussions with German and Australian transit experts who are now conducting an operational test of a "smart-bus" system in Shellharbour, New South Wales. This report also compares the costs of using "smart-traveler" approaches with the costs of expanding conventional transit services to reduce traffic congestion, air pollution and mobility problems in suburban areas, where most people in U.S. metropolitan areas now live and work. The Executive Summary outlines why "smart-traveler" systems should be recognized as an outstanding business opportunity by on-line information service providers. This report was designed to be a working document. It is anticipated that schedules, cost estimates, ridership projections, etc. will be modified in the future as hardware and software prices decline and as more experience is gained from operational tests of "smart traveler" concepts in the U.S. and in other countries. Tables, figures. Appendices to this volume are published separately as Volume 2, DOT-T-93-32.
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