EXISTING AND FORMER HIGH SPEED WATERBORNE PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION OPERATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES

This is one of seven reports written under this contract to describe high speed waterborne passenger transportation, review its applicability in the United States, and document its development in the free world. This report reviews the history of high speed waterborne passemger transportation in the United States. High speed is defined as operating at 25 knots or greater. A summary is included which outlines the principal causes of success or failure of the 19 U.S. operations in the report. Failure of high speed waterborne transportation as a public transit mode in the United States has usually been due to some combination of the following four factors: use of an unproven technology; use of only one boat; insufficient market research, resulting in the selection of routes with insufficient market potential: and insufficient capital.

• Corporate Authors:

  Advanced Marine Systems Associates, Incorporated

  9421 Chatteroy Place
  Gaithersburg, MD  United States 

  Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Company

  1990 K Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20006

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  Office of Technical Assistance & Safety, 400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1984-8

Media Info

• Pagination: v.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air cushion vehicles; Catamarans; Ferries; Financial capital; Gas turbines; Hydrofoils; Market research; Public transit; Recreational trips; Reliability; Ridership; Surface effect ships; Turbine engines
• Old TRIS Terms: Recreational travel
• Subject Areas: Finance; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00390706
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: UMTA-IT-32-0001-84-3
• Contract Numbers: DTUM-60-82-C-7150
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 30 1984 12:00AM