FULL COSTS OF URBAN TRANSPORT. PART I. ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY IN BUS OPERATIONS; PRELIMINARY INTERMODAL COST COMPARISONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS

Contents: Derivation of unit costs; Structure for assessing the short and long run costs of bus service; Long run equilibria and system capacity; Integrated bus service and inter-modal cost comparisons. Portions of this document are not fully legible.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also PB-248 146.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of California, Berkeley

  Institute of Urban and Regional Development
  Berkeley, CA  United States  94720

  National Science Foundation

  1800 G Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20550
• Authors:
  • Keeler, T E
  • Merewitz, L A
  • Fisher, P
  • Viton, P
• Publication Date: 1974-12

Media Info

• Pagination: 156 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Analysis; Bus transit; Bus transportation; Buses; Central business districts; Competition; Cost estimating; Costs; Estimates; Financial capital; Intermodal transportation; Level of service; Marginal costs; Mode choice; Optimization; Prices; Rapid transit; Transportation modes; Transportation planning; Transportation policy; Urban transportation
• Identifier Terms: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cost analysis; Services
• Old TRIS Terms: Bus services; Central city; Rapid transit railways
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Railroads; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00094170
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Monograph-19, NSF/RA/S-75-069A
• Contract Numbers: NSF-GI-37181
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 29 1981 12:00AM