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Urban public transportation : systems and technology

Title
Urban public transportation : systems and technology / Vukan R. Vuchic.
Author
Vuchic, Vukan R.
Publication
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, ©1981.

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Description
xiv, 673 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Local transit
  • local transit
  • Transportation
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
  • Early developments of cities -- Beginnings of public transportation -- Invention of electric streetcars (tramways) -- Street transit in the twentieth century -- Development of high-speed rail transit modes -- Overview and conclusions: transit development and cities -- Transit classifications and definitions -- Theory of urban passenger transport modes -- The family of transit modes: definitions and comparisons -- Trends in transit ridership and in use of different modes -- Vehicle motion -- Risistance to motion -- Propulsion -- Adhesion -- Vehicle acceleration, braking, and stopping distances -- Station-to-station travel analysis -- Energy consumption and efficiency -- Family of highway transit modes -- The vehicles -- Travel ways -- Stops, stations, and garages -- Operations, performance, and costs -- Present and future role of highway transit modes.
  • Family of rail transit modes -- Rolling stock -- Rail transit ways: geometry and facilities -- Rubber-tired rapid transit (RTRT) -- Stops, stations, and yards -- Operations, performance, and costs -- Present and future role of rail transit -- Need for technological innovations in transit -- Innovative technological and operational concepts -- Proposed modes and systems -- Evaluation of new concepts and proposed modes -- Definitions of quantitative performance attributes -- Transit line capacity -- Way capacity -- Station capacity -- Theoretical and practical capacities of major transit modes -- Other quantitative performance measures -- Paratransit -- Specialized services and technologies.
ISBN
  • 0139394966
  • 9780139394966
LCCN
80021081
OCLC
  • ocm06666717
  • 6666717
  • SCSB-9434564
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library