THE URBAN MASS TRANSPORTATION ADMINISTRATION VIEW OF LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT

This paper addresses the issues of how the Urban Mass Transportation Administration views light rail transit, what future role UMTA sees for this technology in American cities, and what considerations lead UMTA to sponsor a Light Rail Transit Conference. Although UMTA recognizes the virtues of the light rail concept, it does not see this as a panacea for urban mobility problems. It is believed that light rail may be a major solution to the search for less costly, more efficient and more environmentally attractive transportation systems that can economically serve the dispersed land use and travel patterns of metropolitan areas.

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• Authors:
  • Orski, C Kenneth
• Conference:
  • National Conference on Light Rail Transit
  • Location: Philadelphia Pennsylvania, United States
  • Date: 1975-6-23 to 1975-6-25
• Publication Date: 1975

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Pagination: pp 14-15
• Monograph Title: Light rail transit
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 161
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; Economic efficiency; Environmental impacts; Evaluation; Land use; Light rail transit; Regional planning; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency
• Subject Areas: Economics; Environment; Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00129806
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 21 1981 12:00AM