This report documents the effort led by TriMet, the City of Portland (City) and Portland Streetcar, Inc. (PSI) to domestically manufacture a streetcar for operation in the Portland Streetcar system. The report includes documentation of the initial process of producing the streetcar, the extension of the grant to support domestic manufacture of the propulsion system by Rockwell Automation, and operation in revenue service. Also included is a discussion of the market for streetcars in the U.S. and a history of streetcar manufacturing in the U.S.
This report is a follow-up of the initial evaluation of LYMMO conducted in 2003. Average daily ridership on LYMMO has fallen three years in a row sinc...
The number of journal articles, books, and research related to rural transit hasincreased somewhat in the past decade; however, there has been little ...
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