ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY
In addition to presenting an overview of the economic conditions in the urban public transit industry as a whole, this project incorporated four papers that investigated separately the economic characteristics of the urban bus, rail rapid, commuter rail, and taxicab industries. Also included were three papers in which an econometric model of urban bus transit was developed, regulatory constraints and their implications were reviewed, and external effects of urban transit operations such as air and noise pollution and accident were analyzed. The analyses tended to be rather general, concluding that demand deficiency, especially for bus transit, was the main cause of the economic difficulties of urban transit systems.
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Corporate Authors:
Institute for Defense Analyses
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Authors:
- Wells, J
- ASHER, N J
- Flowers, M R
- Kamrass, M E
- Nelson, G R
- Publication Date: 1972-2
Media Info
- Pagination: 440 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Air pollution; Bus transportation; Buses; Commuter service; Crashes; Econometric models; Econometrics; Economic analysis; Economic models; Environmental impacts; Noise; Noise sources; Public transit; Rapid transit; Regulations; Revenues; Taxicabs; Transportation planning; Travel demand; Urban transportation
- Old TRIS Terms: Rapid transit railways
- Subject Areas: Economics; Environment; Finance; Highways; Law; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors; Society;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00154772
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
- Report/Paper Numbers: DOT/TPI/10-77/09 Final Rpt.
- Contract Numbers: DOT-OS-10017
- Files: NTIS, TRIS
- Created Date: Jun 17 1977 12:00AM