SUBWAY ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEY PORT AUTHORITY TRANS-HUDSON CORPORATION

The purpose of the report is to present all the subway environmental information gathered in an extensive interview with the Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation. The information represents the state-of-the-art under actual operating conditions in the PATH subway system, of the various environmental areas included in the project--temperature, humidity, velocity, pressure, environmental equipment noise and vibration.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared in cooperation with Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas, Inc., and Kaiser Engineers.
• Corporate Authors:

  De Leuw, Cather and Company

  165 West Wacker Drive
  Chicago, IL  United States  60601
• Publication Date: 1971-10

Media Info

• Pagination: 69 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Design standards; Electrical engineering; Environment; Environmental engineering; Environmental quality; Human factors engineering; Noise; Questionnaires; Subways; Surveys; Temperature control (Structures); Traffic engineering; Travel time; Tunnels; Urban transportation; Ventilation systems; Vibration
• Identifier Terms: Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation
• Old TRIS Terms: Environmental surveys; Noise sound; Subway environment
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Environment; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00039848
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Tech Rpt
• Contract Numbers: DOT-UT-290
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 9 2003 12:00AM