SUBWAY ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEY, NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY

The report has been prepared under the Institute for Rapid Transit (IRT) project, 'Ventilation and Environmental Control in Subway Rapid Transit Systems', and is one of many such reports leading to the final product--a 'Subway Environmental Design Handbook'. The purpose of this particular report is to present all of the subway environmental information available on the New York City Transit Authority. The information represents the state-of-the-art under actual operating conditions in the New York subway system, of the various environmental areas included in the project--temperature, humidity, velocity, pressure, environmental equipment noise and vibration. (Author)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared in cooperation with De Leuw, Cather and Company, Chicago, Ill.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institute for Rapid Transit

  1612 K Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20006
• Publication Date: 1971-12

Media Info

• Pagination: 76 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commuter service; Design; Environment; Environmental engineering; Pressure; Questionnaires; Subways; Surveys; Tunnels; Urban transportation; Ventilation systems
• Uncontrolled Terms: Design criteria
• Geographic Terms: New York (New York); New York (State)
• Old TRIS Terms: Environmental surveys; Subway railways
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00039365
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: UMTA-DC-MTD-7-72-1
• Contract Numbers: DOT-UT-290
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 9 2003 12:00AM