TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR THE CHICAGO CENTRAL AREA CIRCULATOR

The economic well-being and quality of the Chicago Central Area is a function of many different factors, one of which is the transportation system. The ability to move people and goods to, from, and within the Central Area is important to its survival. The transportation system must be regularly improved to maintain this relationship. As one of the public transit elements of the transportation system, the Central Area Circulator (light rail transit) is a vital part of the needed improvements. The Circulator will provide distributor and circulator service within the Central Area. To perform this function, it needs to access all of the significant land use areas. To do this, the Circulator will make use of existing street right-of-way. This requires close coordination with the other users of these streets. It is these relationships that the Traffic Management Plan (TMP) addresses. The TMP contains three primary elements: description of the principles for managing the transportation system for the Central Area, definition of the strategies and operating policies to uphold the principles, and development of the management actions to integrate the Central Area Circulator into the Central Area transportation system.

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• Authors:
  • Hocking, R J
  • Medema, M P
• Conference:
  • Seventh National Conference on Light Rail Transit: Building on Success--Learning from Experience
  • Location: Baltimore, Maryland
  • Date: 1995-11-12 to 1995-11-15
• Publication Date: 1995

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 273-284
• Monograph Title: SEVENTH NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, NOVEMBER 12-15, 1995. VOLUME 1
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Conference Proceedings
  • Volume: 1
  • Issue Number: 8
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 1073-1652

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Central business districts; Conferences; Highway traffic control; Light rail transit; Plans (Drawings); Policy; Strategic planning; Transportation system management
• Uncontrolled Terms: Principles
• Geographic Terms: Chicago (Illinois)
• Old TRIS Terms: Plans
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Policy; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00716788
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309061520
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Jan 30 1996 12:00AM