Purple Line: Connecting the Nation’s Capital Transportation System

The Purple Line is a proposed 16-mi light rail transit (LRT) line project in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. The Purple Line is planned to provide improved east–west travel among five major activity centers and access to and egress from intermodal connections with the region’s transit system by interfacing with two legs of the Washington Metrorail Red Line, the Green Line, and the Orange Line; all three MARC (Maryland’s commuter rail) lines; three separate bus systems; the University of Maryland shuttle system; and Amtrak. This project illustrates how LRT, by connecting these activity centers and intermodal connections, can serve a combination of traditional central business district- oriented and emerging “circumferential” travel markets. The project also illustrates that in planning to serve well-developed major activity centers and interfaces with established rail and bus systems and facilities, LRT’s adaptability and flexibility must be exploited to provide convenient and efficient intermodal connections.

• Record URL:
  http://www.trb.org/Publications/Blurbs/169925.aspx
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• Authors:
  • Benz, Gregory P
  • Meade, Monica
  • Kay, Henry
  • Madden, Michael
• Conference:
  • 12th National Light Rail Conference
  • Location: Salt Lake City Utah
  • Date: 2012-11-11 to 2012-11-13
• Publication Date: 2013-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: pp 373-385
• Monograph Title: Sustaining the Metropolis: Light Rail Transit and Streetcars for Super Cities
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Circular
  • Issue Number: E-C177
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0097-8515

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Activity centers; Case studies; Light rail transit; Lines of track; Multimodal transportation; Planning and design; Suburbs
• Geographic Terms: Maryland
• Subject Areas: Design; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01514779
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 20 2014 10:19AM