WILL MULTIMODAL PASSENGER TERMINALS HELP TO MEET OUR TRANSPORTATION REQUIREMENTS TO THE YEAR 2000?

This paper describes the multimodal passenger terminal research undertaken by Transport Canada since early 1981; outlines recent Canadian activities in that area; and assesses the prospects of these terminals helping to meet our passenger transportation requirements to the year 2000 and beyond. Together, the intercity bus carriers and railway companies carry about 42 million passengers each year, and serve 3400 Canadian communities. In the last decades the market held by these public carriers has remained constant or declined. This small but significant market share has led some to question the current practice of providing separate intercity bus and rail facilities. Many Canadian communities lack adequate bus station facilities; many communities have antiquated, often oversized, railway passenger terminals. In planning and building our public transportation system to the year 2000, we can continue to make investments and improvements in terminal facilities on a unimodal basis, or passenger terminals can be constructed or renovated to serve more than one mode, i.e. Multimodal passenger terminals. (Author/TRRL)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Transportation Research Forum, Regina, Saskatchewan, June 1983.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Saskatchewan, Canada

  Printing Services, Government Administration Building
  Saskatoon, Saskatchewan  Canada  S7N 0W0
• Authors:
  • DARWIN, E
• Publication Date: 1983-6

Media Info

• Pagination: 22 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus terminals; Bus transit; Buses; Conferences; Forecasting; Freight terminals; Future; Intercity transportation; Intermodal terminals; Public transit; Railroad transportation; Railroads; Transportation modes
• Uncontrolled Terms: Terminus
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• Old TRIS Terms: Bus services
• ITRD Terms: 1272: Bus; 8018: Canada; 8525: Conference; 1152: Future transport mode; 388: Inter urban; 744: Public transport; 1173: Rail bound transport; 1074: Terminus; 1145: Transport mode
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00380852
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 30 1984 12:00AM