SPECTRA, A PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM FOR TOWNS AND REGIONAL AREAS (PART 1)

SPECTRA, OPENBAAR VERVOERSYSTEEM VOOR STAD EN STREEK

Because of the discrepancy between the admitted value of public transport of good quality and the degree to which modern public transport can in fact meet today's expectation patterns the Dutch firms Daf-Holding and Ogem, together with the Netherlands railways, developed a new concept for transport in towns and regional areas called Spectra. The system is based on a considerable acceleration of trunk services by means of trams or (trolley)-buses with an average speed of 30 km/h, and halting every 800-1000 metres. Radiating from these stops of special design, small vehicles run frequently into the very heart of the residential areas, permitting a maximum interchange time of only two minutes at the connecting points of the two systems. /TRRL/

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• Corporate Authors:

  Royal Dutch Touring Club ANWB

  Wassenaarseweg 220, P.O. Box 93200
  The Hague,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • Van, HLH
• Publication Date: 1976-11

Language

• Dutch

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: p. 544-549
• Serial:
  • Verkeerskunde
  • Volume: 27
  • Issue Number: 11
  • Publisher: NWB BV/Royal Dutch Touring Club
  • ISSN: 0377-8495
  • Serial URL: http://www.verkeerskunde.nl

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus stops; Feeder buses; Light rail transit; Line haul; Networks; Public transit; Regions; Technology; Transfer points; Transfers; Transportation modes; Transportation planning; Trolley cars; Trolleybuses; Urban areas; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation networks
• Geographic Terms: Netherlands
• Subject Areas: Finance; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00149941
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Report/Paper Numbers: Analytic
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: May 11 1981 12:00AM