THE SELLING OF RAIL RAPID TRANSIT

This book is basically a critical review of rail rapid transit in the USA, and contains nine chapters as follows: (1) Transportation and urban location behavior in perspective; (2) Defining the problem: public transport criteria and rail rapid transit mythology; (3) Rail versus bus: the art of evaluating alternate modes; (4) Failure of a mission; (5) Metro: another monument for the nation's for capital; (6) MARTA: planning massive accessibility for central Atlanta; (7) Rail advocacy in autopia: the Los Angeles country case; (8) Rail rapid transit blues for St. Louis: the collapse of an illusion; (9) Concluding observations.

• Corporate Authors:

  Teakfield Limited

  Saxon House, 1 Westmead
  Farnborough, Hants,   England 
• Authors:
  • HAMER, A M
• Publication Date: 1976

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: 353 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Competition; Governments; Planning; Policy making; Public opinion; Public transit; Railroads; Rapid transit; Textbooks; Transportation; Transportation modes; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Old TRIS Terms: Government planning; Railway
• ITRD Terms: 224: Cost; 9011: Design (overall design); 6954: Electricity; 244: Financing; 132: Forecast; 699: Itinerary; 1054: Network (traffic); 221: Operating costs; 1144: Operations (transp network); 8526: Textbook; 1186: Timetable; 313: Urban area; 8122: USA; 9084: Use
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00144103
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Book
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 16 1981 12:00AM