SHUTTLE BUSES: EXPERIENCE AND PLANNING IMPLICATIONS
Employers and Transportation Management Associations (TMAs), especially in suburban business parks, are evaluating and implementing shuttle bus services. Increasingly, the impetus for initiating services is a trip reduction ordinance or developer agreements requiring implementation of programs and strategies (Transportation Systems Management or Demand Management, TSM or TDM) to reduce traffic. Because shuttle services generally are one of the more expensive of the TSM or TDM options, several issues arise in considering shuttle services: can they work, especially in suburban settings and especially as feeders to bus or rail transit lines and as mid-day circulators? What are reasons for success and failure? What are employer, developer and TMA roles in supporting shuttles? What guidance can be offered about planning, operations and costs?
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Corporate Authors:
Eno Transportation Foundation
P.O. Box 2055, Saugatuck Station
Westport, CT United States 06880-0055 -
Authors:
- Higgins, T J
- Publication Date: 1992-7
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Tables;
- Pagination: p. 397-409
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Serial:
- Transportation Quarterly
- Volume: 46
- Issue Number: 3
- Publisher: Eno Transportation Foundation
- ISSN: 0278-9434
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Costs; Demand responsive transportation; Feeder buses; Management; Public transit; Shuttle buses; Shuttle service; Suburbs; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
- Old TRIS Terms: Transit management
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00626015
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Aug 7 1993 12:00AM