URBAN TRANSPORT SERVICE INNOVATIONS

This volume amounts to a progress report on paratransit. The papers published here include some that were presented at the Transportation Research Board's Conference on Urban Transport Service Innovations in San Diego, December 5 to 8, 1977, and some that were presented at the Fifty-seventh Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in January 1978. They review both American and Canadian experiences with shared-ride services such as car pools, van pools, shared-ride taxi services, subscription bus services, and dial-a-ride and demand-responsive services for special-need groups. One common characteristic of these services is their ability to respond flexibily to the spatial patterns and temporal rhythms of travel demand. Another common characteristics is a recent record of increased interest and relatively rapid program expansion. The pace of recent developments argues that this is an appropriate time to review the performance of shared-ride programs and the direction of paratransit innovations. /Author/

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• Conference:
  • Conference on Urban Transport Service Innovations
  • Location: San Diego California, United States
  • Date: 1977-12-5 to 1977-12-8
• Publication Date: 1979

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 142p
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 184
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Carpools; Conferences; Demand responsive transportation; Paratransit services; Ridesharing; Transportation planning; Urban transportation; Vanpools
• Uncontrolled Terms: Subscription bus service
• Old TRIS Terms: Special service
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00193691
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309028175
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: May 26 1981 12:00AM