COORDINATED BUS STUDY

Purpose of this report, a summary of 3 individual consultant studies, was to analyze the need for local and feeder transit services in the East Bay communities of Contra Costa County, Livermore-Amador Valley, and the Tri-Cities of Fremont, Newark, and Union City, California. These 3 areas are inside the BART District but outside of the service area of the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit). In each of the 3 study areas, similar findings and recommendations were made. Recommendations include: transit service along the major corridors should be developed and expanded; local service by itself would not significantly reduce the dominance of the auto; and local transit should be provided to serve the limited mobility population. Feeder and local services were recommended. These systems proposed include conventional bus routes, flexibly routed buses and demand activated bused (dial-a-bus). In addition to dial-a-bus services in the Contra Costa study area, electrically powered, publicly owned automobiles (PAS) were recommended for development. Report also provides an overview of the Bay Area setting for these studies, reviews need for transit, summarizes recommendations regarding transit alternatives, gives a brief overview of impacts of transit alternatives, and describes the implementation procedures, including the institutional, financial, and management arrangements. Maps, charts, tables, illustrations and appendices are included. /UMTA/

• Corporate Authors:

  San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District

  800 Madison Street
  Oakland, CA  United States  94607
• Publication Date: 1974-8

Media Info

• Pagination: 91 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus transportation; Financing; Intercity bus lines; Management; Needs assessment; Paratransit services; Transportation; Transportation corridors; Transportation operations
• Old TRIS Terms: Dial-a-bus; Transportation administration
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00081012
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: UMTA-CA-09-0011-74-1
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 26 1981 12:00AM