ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ISSUES FOR AUTOMATED GUIDEWAY TRANSIT SYSTEMS

The focus of the study is on the social and environmental aspects. Section I discusses some of the critical non-engineering issues that influence social acceptability of AGT in the urban areas, such as, crime, system safety, and community disruption. Concepts presented reflect the opinion of a variety of recent publications, including the environmental impact statement guidelines of a number of Federal Government agencies. Section I also contains a summary of impacts, sources, and solutions. Tables VI-XXVIII list twenty-three impact areas that influence social acceptability of AGT in urban areas. For each of these areas, representative possible impacts, system sources, and solutions are presented. The intent here is to summarize and group prevalent sources and candidate solutions together with each of the categories of impact which are discussed in this paper. Section II examines three hard environmental impact items, i.e., the three most important engineering factors: acoustic noise, electromagnetic interference, and power consumption.

• Corporate Authors:

  Mitre Corporation

  Westgate Research Park
  McLean, VA  United States  22101

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Nussbaum, E
  • Zumwalt, B
• Publication Date: 1976-8

Media Info

• Pagination: 144 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Acceptance; Acoustic measuring instruments; Acoustics; City planning; Electromagnetic interference; Energy consumption; Environmental impacts; Guideways; Intelligent transportation systems; Noise; Noise control; Public opinion; Safety; Sociology; Urban areas; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Acceptability; Noise reduction
• Old TRIS Terms: Acoustic measurement; Advanced systems; Guideway systems
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Operations and Traffic Management; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors; Society; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00151802
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: MTR-7268, UMTA-VA-06-0025-77-2
• Contract Numbers: DOT-UT-50016
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: May 11 1977 12:00AM