BART AND METRO--RAPID TRANSIT FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO AND WASHINGTON, DC. AREAS. 1964-JUNE, 1981 (CITATIONS FROM THE NTIS DATA BASE)

The two-section bibliography is devoted to the development of rapid rail mass transportation in two major metropolitan areas. The first section contains citations referring to BART, the San Francisco Bay area rapid transit system in California. Section two refers to the combined subway and surface transit system for the District of Columbia and outlying areas in Maryland and Virginia. Materials in both sections cover line siting, policies and planning, cars and power systems, stations and trackwork, human factors, travel patterns, and public attitudes. Attention is given to financing, revenue, maintenance, local impact, and environmental impact, as well as fare collection, noise, and legislation. Local and regional needs are discussed. (This updated bibliography contains 377 citations, 15 of which are new entries to the previous edition.)

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  National Technical Information Service

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• Publication Date: 1981-8

Media Info

• Pagination: 384 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Abstracts; Attitudes; Bibliographies; Electric power transmission; Environmental impacts; Fare collection; Financing; Human factors engineering; Laws and legislation; Lines of track; Location; Maintenance; Noise; Passenger transportation; Planning; Policy; Public opinion; Public relations; Rail transit stations; Railroad cars; Railroad stations; Railroad tracks; Rapid transit; Rapid transit cars; Regulations; Revenues; Sound level; Subways; Systems engineering; Transportation; Transportation planning; Transportation policy; Travel; Travel patterns; Urban transportation
• Identifier Terms: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District; Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation noise
• Geographic Terms: California; Maryland; Virginia; Washington (District of Columbia)
• Old TRIS Terms: Line location; Power systems; Rapid transit railways; Subway railways
• Subject Areas: Law; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Safety and Human Factors; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00344569
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Bibliog.
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 22 1982 12:00AM