BART IMPACT PROGRAM. BART'S FIRST FIVE YEARS: TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL IMPACTS; INTERPRETIVE SUMMARY OF THE FINAL REPORT

This is the final report of a research study assessing the impacts of BART on transportation and travel in the Bay Area. The BART System, its costs, the service it provides relative to bus and automobile, and the nature of its ridership are described. BART's impacts on modal split, bus ridership and service, and highway traffic congestion are analyzed; and implications for planning rail transit elsewhere are drawn.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared in cooperation with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co., San Francisco, CA. Sponsored in part by Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC.
• Corporate Authors:

  Metropolitan Transportation Commission

  Ashby Avenue and Domingo Avenue
  Berkeley, CA  United States  94705

  Department of Transportation

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Department of Housing and Urban Development

  451 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20410
• Authors:
  • SHERRET, A
• Publication Date: 1979-9

Media Info

• Pagination: 23 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus transit; Costs; Impact studies; Level of service; Modal split; Prices; Rapid transit; Ridership; Surveys; Traffic congestion; Transportation planning; Travel; Urban transportation
• Identifier Terms: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
• Uncontrolled Terms: Services
• Geographic Terms: California
• Old TRIS Terms: Bus transportation (Intracity); Rapid transit railways
• Subject Areas: Finance; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00364873
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOTP307921, DOTBIPF
• Contract Numbers: DOT-OS-30176
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 28 1982 12:00AM