SOCIAL ASSESSMENT OF NEW LOCAL TRANSPORT SYSTEMS

GESELLSCHAFTLICHE BEURTEILUNG VON NEUEN NAHVERKEHRSSYSTEMEN

The Battelle Institute, Prognos AG Basel and the SNV Hamburg made a social assessment of the introduction of new personal rapid transit systems (Kabinen-Bahn). This report considers questions of demand (objective demand and individual willingness for using rapid transit) and it considers the effect of construction and operation of new local transportation systems on various aspects of life and on future urban development. The report defines the parameters of new systems and studies their economic and social benefits on a long-term basis. It investigates urban areas in which new transit systems should be introduced and tested first and it studies the problems that might arise from introducing such new systems.

• Corporate Authors:

  Battelle-Institut EV, West Germany

  Postschliessfach 900160
  6000 Frankfurt/Main,   Germany 
• Publication Date: 1974

Language

• German

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: 41 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Demand; Personal rapid transit; Public transit; Rapid transit; Research; Social sciences; Technological innovations; Transportation; Urban areas; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Parameters; Transportation systems
• Old TRIS Terms: New systems; Social research
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Operations and Traffic Management; Research; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00072045
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Systems Center
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 22 1981 12:00AM