SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT DEMONSTRATION PROJECT, SUMMARY

The San Francisco Bay area rapid transit district demonstration project was conducted on a four and one-half mile test track. The purpose of the demonstration project was to test and evaluate new technical concepts in the field of rapid transit. These concepts included a variety of advanced hardware as well as completely automatic train control and automatic fare collection systems.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This abstract is also contained in "A Bibliography on the Design and Performance of Rail Track Structures", September 1974, RRIS #072794, which was prepared for the Urban Mass Transportation Administration.
• Corporate Authors:

  Parsons, Brinckerhoff-Tudor-Bechtel

  814 Mission Street
  San Francisco, CA  United States  94103
• Publication Date: 1970-1

Media Info

• Pagination: 73 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic fare collection; Automatic train control; Rapid transit; Test tracks
• Identifier Terms: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00072845
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Final Rpt.
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 11 1976 12:00AM