PUBLIC POLICY AND OPTIMAL TRANSPORTATION PLANNING STRATEGIES

Restrictions on metropolitan core area travel by private vehicles to limit air pollution and to reduce fuel consumption will necessitate extensive programs for change-of-mode facilities on line-haul public transport routes. The parking spaces in the core area must be transferred so as to minimize the total vehicle-kilometers traveled throughout the area subject to technical, public policy, and economic constraints. This creates a need for a master plan that will identify the apportionment and extent of parking and other change-of-mode facilities, including feeder bus service at line-haul public transport routes. This paper briefly describes the salient transportation and parking features in Boston as a background to formulating a genralized public policy and a linear programming approach for the preparation of optimal plans incorporating a defined range of objectives and constraints.

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• Authors:
  • Schoon, John G
  • Falcocchio, John C
  • Pignataro, Louis J
  • McShane, William R
• Publication Date: 1976

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 14-20
• Monograph Title: Transit facility operations
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 614
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air quality management; Automobiles; Commuter service; Commuters; Decision making; Economic factors; Energy; Feeder buses; Fuel consumption; Line haul; Linear programming; Modal shift; Parking; Parking facilities; Policy making; Pollution; Public policy; Traffic restraint; Transportation planning; Urban transportation; Vehicle miles of travel
• Geographic Terms: Boston (Massachusetts)
• Old TRIS Terms: Change of mode; Line haul transport
• Subject Areas: Economics; Energy; Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00159598
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309025907
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Sep 28 1981 12:00AM