SMALL CITY TRANSIT: CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA. PUBLIC TRANSIT SERVING A UNIVERSITY AND TOWN

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is an illustration of a public transit service providing a high level of service for a town its size and a good example of a cooperative arrangement between a town and a resident university. This case study is one of thirteen examples of a transit service in a small community. The background of the community is discussed along with a description of the implementation process and operational characteristics of the transit service. The process through which the community responds to the specific needs for transit service within the local content is stressed.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also PB-251 506.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Systems Center

  55 Broadway, Kendall Square
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02142

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  Office of Service & Method Demonstration, 400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Casey, R
• Publication Date: 1976-3

Media Info

• Pagination: 20 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Buses; Communities; Level of service; Public transit; Routes; Small cities; Technical assistance; Transportation; Transportation operations; Travel demand; Universities and colleges; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation management; Transportation systems
• Geographic Terms: North Carolina
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00133210
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-TSC-UMTA-76-5-5 Final Rpt., UMTA-MA-06-0049-76-5
• Contract Numbers: MA-06-0049
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jun 23 1982 12:00AM