NATIONAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF TRAFFIC SYSTEMS - A CAB TRACK SYSTEM IN VAESTERAAS

SAMHAELLSEKONOMISK ANALYS AV TRAFIKSYSTEM - SPAARTAXI I VAESTERAAS

A method for the analysis of traffic systems from a national economic viewpoint is described; it involves taking whole traffic system into consideration and investigating alternative traffic solutions with different public transport systems. In the evaluation all factors that are affected should be accounted for. The proposed methodology is applied to a case study for a Swedish town, Vaesteraas, involving a new means of public transport, a cab track system, which the authors find technically possible and fully realizable in this town in 1990. Three alternatives, reflecting different courses of development have been analyzed in the report, for the year 1990; the first is an extension of the present trend, that is car traffic dominating, the second includes the introduction of a cab track system as a public means of transport, the third furthermore includes a forced limitation of private car traffic. Economic and other consequences are discussed. /TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

  Stockholm,   Sweden  SE-100 44
• Authors:
  • Kreitz, P A
  • Nelldal, B L
• Publication Date: 1974

Language

• Swedish

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 71 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated guideway transit; Economic analysis; Forecasting; Methodology; Mode choice; Passengers; Personal rapid transit; Taxicabs; Traffic; Travel demand
• Geographic Terms: Sweden
• Old TRIS Terms: Automated guideway systems
• ITRD Terms: 1020: Container (freight); 255: Economics; 263: Economics of transport; 132: Forecast; 1152: Future transport mode; 1091: Marshalling yard; 9102: Method; 746: Private transport; 744: Public transport; 8109: Sweden; 1145: Transport mode
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00126077
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: No. 4 R&D Rept.
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 21 1981 12:00AM