Light rail transit: New system successes at affordable prices. Special report

Technical Report · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:5487586

The papers presented at the conference, along with several others submitted to and reviewed by TRB, are published in these proceedings. The report is organized into five headings: overview, policy and planning considerations, new LRT systems and lessons learned from start-ups, systems design and vehicle performance, and operations and maintenance. The consensus of the conference participants was, as conference program committee chairman R. David Minister put it, 'light-rail transit is alive and well in North America.' The participants found that interest in LRT is at an all-time high and has not yet peaked, that many lessons have been learned from the successes and problems of existing systems, and that diversity of applications characterizes this mode.

• Research Organization: National Research Council, Washington, DC (USA). Transportation Research Board
• OSTI ID: 5487586
• Report Number(s): PB-89-198394/XAB; TRB/SR--221
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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DOCUMENT TYPES
LAND TRANSPORT
MAINTENANCE
MASS TRANSIT SYSTEMS
MEETINGS
OPERATION
PLANNING
PROGRESS REPORT
RAIL TRANSPORT
TRANSPORT
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
URBAN AREAS