Transit Vehicles for National Parks : Selection Factors and Technologies.

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• Creators:
  Chernicoff, William P.
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Alternate Fuels Alternatives Analysis Buses Costs Environmental Impacts National Parks Needs Assessment Shuttle Buses Transportation Planning
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. National Park Service
• NTL Classification:
  AGR-PUBLIC AND TRIBAL LANDS-PUBLIC AND TRIBAL LANDS
• Abstract:
  Increasingly, national parks are purchasing and operating buses and other alternative
  
  transportation vehicles to transport visitors to and from or within park boundaries.
  
  Selecting alternative transportation vehicles is a complex, multi-faceted process that
  
  involves the careful analysis of numerous factors. This material in this report originally
  
  was developed as a primer to orient park superintendents and transportation managers
  
  who participated in an Alternative Transportation Vehicle Workshop held March, 2002 in
  
  Estes Park, CO. It provides useful information and supplements Volume 1 (Candidate
  
  Vehicle Technologies) of the Federal Lands Alternative Transportation Systems Study.1
  
  This updated version contains the essentially the same material provided to the workshop
  
  participants.
  
  This primer addresses fundamental considerations for evaluating and choosing buses,
  
  including: vehicle technologies, vehicle types, fuels, infrastructure and associated costs.
  
  These should not be viewed as independent topics, but as parts of a system in which each
  
  part may be affected by, and may affect, the other parts. Alternative transportation
  
  systems will be unique based on the differences and the particular needs of individual
  
  parks. Therefore, rather than provide extensive details about specific parks, the sections
  
  herein outline basic system considerations that should be investigated further in relation
  
  to the specific conditions at a given park.
  
  
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  PDF
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
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