Increasing the Productivity of the Nation's Urban Transportation Infrastructure: Measures to Increase Transit Use and Carpooling

Kain, John F.; Liu, Zhi; Gittell, Ross; Daniere, Amrita; Daniel, Sanjay; Sommerville, Tsur

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Increasing the Productivity of the Nation's Urban Transportation Infrastructure: Measures to Increase Transit Use and Carpooling

1992-01-01
By Kain, John F. ; Liu, Zhi ; Gittell, Ross

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Kain, John F. ; Liu, Zhi ; Gittell, Ross ; Daniere, Amrita ; Daniel, Sanjay ; Sommerville, Tsur
Corporate Creators:

Harvard University. Dept. of Urban Planning and Design
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Publication/ Report Number:

DOT-T-92-17
Resource Type:

Tech Report
Geographical Coverage:

Massachusetts ; United States
Corporate Publisher:

United States. Department of Transportation
Abstract:

This report surveys the growing use of bus and carpool priority measures to increase the productivity of the nation's transportation infrastructure. While it identifies a wide variety of priority measures, the report principally focuses on the planning and operation of exclusive and shared busways and high occupancy vehicle (HOV) facilities. Chapters 3-10 present detailed case studies describing the implementation of exclusive busways, transitways, and other bus and carpool priority schemes in seven North American metropolitan areas (New York, San Francisco-Oakland, Ottawa-Carleton, Pittsburgh, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles-Long Beach-Orange County, and Houston). Chapter 2 provides less extensive evaluations of schemes implemented in other areas. Chapters 14 and 15 compare the cost-effectiveness of exclusive busways and bus-HOV facilities with the cost- effectiveness of recently completed light and heavy rail lines. Finally, Chapters 11-13 consider the problems of serving large downtown areas, something that many observers view as the Achilles heel of all-bus systems.
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[PDF - 25.83 MB]
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FTA 50th Anniversary Collection
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