Innovative Suburb-to-suburb Transit Practices

Innovative Suburb-to-suburb Transit Practices
Author: Katherine S. Hooper
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1995
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Provides information about the suburban shift from the more traditional central business district oriented service patterns of selected transit agencies. Transit agencies with limited marketing successes in this area are being challenged to address these nontraditional markets anew.

Guidelines for Enhancing Suburban Mobility Using Public Transportation

Guidelines for Enhancing Suburban Mobility Using Public Transportation
Author: Transit Cooperative Research Program
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 92
Release: 1999
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780309066129

Guidelines for enhancing suburban mobility: Overview and summary of findings -- Suburban transit services: The planning context -- Actions to modify and improve the overall suburban transit framework -- Circulators and shuttles -- Subscription buses and vanpools -- Summary: Lessons and conclusions -- Bibliography -- Appendix A: Classifying suburban environments.

Transit Markets of the Future

Transit Markets of the Future
Author: Sandra Rosenbloom
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1998
Genre: Choice of transportation
ISBN: 9780309062534

Examines the effects of current trends (e.g., demographic, economic, social, land use, and transport policy) and trends expected over the next 15 years on current and future transit markets. Although many of these trends are not favorable to public transit, a number are identified that provide opportunities for maintaining current transit markets and creating new, expanded, or different transit markets. The report identifies 40 transit service concepts that appear to offer the most effective means of adjusting to these societal trends.

Traveler Response to Transportation System Changes

Traveler Response to Transportation System Changes
Author: Transit Cooperative Research Program
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 67
Release: 2003
Genre: Bus lines
ISBN: 0309088283

"The third edition Traveler Response to Transportation System Changes Handbook provides comprehensive information on travel demand effects of alternative urban transportation policies, operating approaches and systems, and built environment options, by building upon, expanding, and selectively replacing the earlier editions to provide a contemporary assessment of the experience and insights gained from the application and analysis of various system changes and alternatives. The focus is on aiding transportation, transit, and land use planners in their conduct of travel demand and related analyses, and to inform elected officials, administrators, operators, designers, and the general public as well. The Traveler Response to Transportation System Changes Handbook consists of the Chapter 1 introductory materials and 15 stand-alone published topic area chapters. Each topic area chapter provides traveler response findings including supportive information and interpretation, and also includes case studies and a bibliography consisting of the references utilized as sources. Please note that Chapters 4, 7, and 8 have been deferred for a future TCRP project effort. The Handbook findings derive primarily from reported results and analyses of real-world transportation system and policy applications and trials. Experimental or quasi-experimental empirical data have been the information source of choice. Other empirical data derivations and simple accounts of outcomes have been employed as necessary. Forecasts and other estimates derived from travel demand model applications and similar techniques have been used, but on a very selective basis; mostly for augmenting the empirical data where gaps exist, and for providing additional insights and context. TCRP Report 95: Traveler Response to Transportation System Changes Handbook will be of interest to transit, transportation, and land use planning practitioners; transportation engineers; land developers, employers, and school administrators; researchers and educators; and professionals across a broad spectrum of transportation and planning; metropolitan planning organizations; and local, state, and federal government agencies."--taken from publisher web site.

Guidebook for Evaluating, Selecting, and Implementing Suburban Transit Services

Guidebook for Evaluating, Selecting, and Implementing Suburban Transit Services
Author: Transit Cooperative Research Program
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2006
Genre: Local transit
ISBN: 0309098645

"TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 116: Guidebook for Evaluating, Selecting, and Implementing Suburban Transit Services examines the current status of suburban transit services and land-use environments and the relationship between the two. Types of suburban transit services include commuter, route deviation, demand response, circulators, shuttles, and vanpools. Also, the guidebook describes the emerging trends that significantly influence the availability and operation of suburban transit services. TCRP Web-Only Document 34 is the companion document to the guidebook. TCRP Web-Only Document 34 includes eight case studies that describe the types of suburban transit services offered the types of operational issues; the funding arrangements; the marketing program; the performance-measurement program; and the successes, challenges, and lessons learned from introducing suburban transit services. The companion report also includes quantitative and qualitative decision matrixes"--Publisher's description.

Suburban Remix

Suburban Remix
Author: Jason Beske
Publisher: Island Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2018-02
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1610918630

Investment has flooded back to cities because dense, walkable, mixed-use urban environments offer choices that support diverse dreams. Auto-oriented, single-use suburbs have a hard time competing. Suburban Remix brings together experts in planning, urban design, real estate development, and urban policy to demonstrate how suburbs can use growing demand for urban living to renew their appeal as places to live, work, play, and invest. The case studies and analysis show how compact new urban places are being created in suburbs to produce health, economic, and environmental benefits, and contribute to solving a growing equity crisis.

Urban Transportation Innovations Worldwide

Urban Transportation Innovations Worldwide
Author: Roger L. Kemp
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2015-01-28
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1476618275

This handbook of urban transportation planning presents case studies detailing 40 best practices from 33 states in the U.S. and 19 countries on six continents. Cities around the world have improved transportation options for their citizens. Roadways have seen the addition of walkways and bicycle lanes, and light-rail transit systems have reduced street traffic. These cities have decreased reliance on personal cars and enhanced their urban environments by reducing congestion, pollution, and the number and width of roadways. This volume discusses the dynamic field of urban transportation planning and provides resources for planning professionals and public officials interested in obtaining additional information on the latest trends.