Bus Rapid Transit Practitioner's Guide

Bus Rapid Transit Practitioner's Guide
Author: Kittelson & Associates
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2007
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 030909884X

Introduction -- Planning framework -- Estimating BRT ridership -- Component features, costs, and impacts -- System packaging, integration, and assessment -- Land development guidelines.

Light Rail Service

Light Rail Service
Author: Transit Cooperative Research Program
Publisher:
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2001
Genre: Local transit
ISBN:

This report provides documentation and presents the results of a study to improve the safety of light rail transit (LRT) in semiexclusive rights-of-way where light rail vehicles operate at speeds greater than 35 mph through crossings with streets and pedestrians pathways. This report also presents the results of field tests conducted to improve the safety of higher speed LRT systems through grade crossing design.

Leveraging ITS Data for Transit Market Research

Leveraging ITS Data for Transit Market Research
Author: James G. Strathman
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2008
Genre: Intelligent transportation systems
ISBN: 0309099420

TRB¿s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 126: Leveraging ITS Data for Transit Market Research: A Practitioner¿s Guidebook examines intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and Transit ITS technologies currently in use, explores their potential to provide market research data, and presents methods for collecting and analyzing these data. The guidebook also highlights three case studies that illustrate how ITS data have been used to improve market research practices.

Transport Survey Methods

Transport Survey Methods
Author: Jean-Loup Madre
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 662
Release: 2009-11-02
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1848558449

Identifies various challenges to the world community of transport survey specialists as well as the larger constituency of practitioners, planners, and decision-makers that it serves and provides potential solutions and recommendations for addressing them.

Ground Access to Major Airports by Public Transportation

Ground Access to Major Airports by Public Transportation
Author: Matthew A. Coogan
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2008
Genre: Access to airports
ISBN: 0309099412

TRBs Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 4: Ground Access to Major Airports by Public Transportation examines key elements associated with the creation of a six-step market-based strategy for improving the quality of public mode services at U.S. airports. The report also addresses the context for public transportation to major airports, explores the attributes of successful airport ground access systems, presents an airport by airport summary of air traveler ground access mode-share by public transportation services, and more.

Fare Policies, Structures and Technologies

Fare Policies, Structures and Technologies
Author: Daniel Fleishman
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2003
Genre: Local transit
ISBN: 0309087643

TCRP Report 94: Fare Policies, Structures and Technologies: Update identifies, describes, and evaluates key fare structures, policies, and technologies that are being considered by transit agencies, with a focus on their impact on customers, operations management, and effective and equitable fare integration. The report includes data on fare structures, policy-making procedures, and ongoing efforts to implement fare technology. This report provides guidance on making decisions related to fare policies, structures, and technologies. It includes practical information that can be readily used by transit professionals and policy makers in fare-related planning and decision making. This report updates information presented in TCRP Reports 10 and 32 and presents the latest developments and research results related to fare policy and technology issues.

TR News

TR News
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2008
Genre: Transportation
ISBN:

Using Public Transportation to Reduce the Economic, Social, and Human Costs of Personal Immobility

Using Public Transportation to Reduce the Economic, Social, and Human Costs of Personal Immobility
Author: Ricardo Byrd
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1999
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780309066013

This report provides a method to define and measure the costs of personal immobility at a local level and contains a compendium of public transportation practices that address immobility, help reduce costs, and possibly provide economic benefits to both the riders and the larger community. The focus is on practices that assist people who need transportation to health care or who are transitioning from welfare to work. This report should be of interest to planners, decision makers, and social service and transportation providers. It should also serve as a resource to assist decision makers and transportation service providers in using their services more effectively to address the issue of personal immobility.