Author: Transit Cooperative Research Program
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 29
ISBN-13: 0309087767
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Accompanying CD-ROM contains full text of the manual, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and a library of related documents.
Author: James G. Strathman
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 0309099420
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →TRB¿s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 126: Leveraging ITS Data for Transit Market Research: A Practitioner¿s Guidebook examines intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and Transit ITS technologies currently in use, explores their potential to provide market research data, and presents methods for collecting and analyzing these data. The guidebook also highlights three case studies that illustrate how ITS data have been used to improve market research practices.
Author: Matthew A. Coogan
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 0309099412
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →TRBs Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 4: Ground Access to Major Airports by Public Transportation examines key elements associated with the creation of a six-step market-based strategy for improving the quality of public mode services at U.S. airports. The report also addresses the context for public transportation to major airports, explores the attributes of successful airport ground access systems, presents an airport by airport summary of air traveler ground access mode-share by public transportation services, and more.
Author: Jean-Loup Madre
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2009-11-02
Total Pages: 662
ISBN-13: 1848558449
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Identifies various challenges to the world community of transport survey specialists as well as the larger constituency of practitioners, planners, and decision-makers that it serves and provides potential solutions and recommendations for addressing them.
Author: Transit Cooperative Research Program
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report provides documentation and presents the results of a study to improve the safety of light rail transit (LRT) in semiexclusive rights-of-way where light rail vehicles operate at speeds greater than 35 mph through crossings with streets and pedestrians pathways. This report also presents the results of field tests conducted to improve the safety of higher speed LRT systems through grade crossing design.
Author: Jeffrey Tumlin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-01-24
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0470540931
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The Great American Dream of cruising down the parkway, zipping from here to there at any time has given way to a true nightmare that is destroying the environment, costing billions and deeply impacting our personal well-being. Getting from A to B has never been more difficult, expensive or miserable. It doesn't have to be this way. Jeffrey Tumlin's book Sustainable Transportation Planning offers easy-to-understand, clearly explained tips and techniques that will allow us to quite literally take back our roads. Essential reading for anyone who wants to drive our transportation system out of the gridlock." -Marianne Cusato, home designer and author of Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use and Avoid ?The book is full of useful ideas on nearly every page.? ? Bill DiBennedetto of Triple Pundit As transportations-related disciplines of urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, urban economics, and social policy have undergone major internal reform efforts in recent decades Written in clear, easy-to-follow language, this book provides planning practitioners with the tools they need to achieve their cities? economic development, social equity and ecological sustainability goals. Starting with detailed advice for improving each mode of transportation, the book offers guidance on balancing the needs of each mode against each other, whether on a downtown street, or a small town neighborhood, or a regional network.
Author: Kittelson & Associates
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 030909884X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Introduction -- Planning framework -- Estimating BRT ridership -- Component features, costs, and impacts -- System packaging, integration, and assessment -- Land development guidelines.