Increasing the productivity of the nation's urban transportation infrastructure: Measures to increase transit use and carpooling. Final report

Technical Report · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:6793372

Kain, J F; Gittell, R; Daniere, A; Daniel, S; Somerville, T

The report surveys the growing use of bus and carpool priority measures to increase the productivity of the nation's transportation infrastructure. While it identifies a wide variety of priority measures, the report principally focuses on the planning and operation of exclusive and shared busways and high occupancy vehicle (HOV) facilities. It presents a variety of case studies describing the implementation of busways and transitways. The document also compares the cost effectiveness of exclusive busways and bus-HOV facilities with the cost effectiveness of recently completed light and heavy rail lines. It also explores the options and problems in serving large downtown areas.

• Research Organization: Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States). Graduate School of Design
• OSTI ID: 6793372
• Report Number(s): PB-93-178549/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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