INTERMEDIATE LEVELS OF TRANSIT SERVICE WHICH ARE COSTLIER: TRAINS ON RAILS OR BUSES ON BUSWAYS?

Trains-on-rails are cost-equivalent to buses-on-busways where the newly installed urban transportation system's capacity is 12,000 passengers per hour per direction. New transit facilities, utilizing existing railroad air-rights, require capital improvements of 7.5 (busway) to 12 (train-on-rail) M $/mile and cost to operate from 1.2 (bus) to 0.4 (train) cents per seat-mile, using 1970 data.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the Intersociety Conference on Transportation, September 23-27, 1973.
• Corporate Authors:

  Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall

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• Authors:
  • HOFFMAN, G A
• Publication Date: 1973-9

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Economics; Rapid transit
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00050059
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ASME Journal of Mechanical Engineering
• Report/Paper Numbers: 73-ICT-26
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 13 1981 12:00AM