Vukan R. Vuchic

Urban Transit

Operations, Planning, and Economics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The only modern text to cover all aspects of urban transit operations, planning, and economics

Global in scope, up-to-date with current practice, and written by an internationally renowned expert, Urban Transit: Operations, Planning, and Economics is a unique volume covering the full range of issues involved in the operation, planning, and financing of transit systems.

Presenting both theoretical concepts and practical, real-world methodologies for operations, planning and analyses of transit systems, this book is a comprehensive single-volume text and reference for students as well as professionals.

The thorough examination of technical fundamentals and management principles in this book enables readers to address projects across the globe despite nuances in regulations and laws. Dozens of worked problems and end-of-chapter exercises help familiarize the reader with the formulae and analytical techniques presented in the book's three convenient sections:
_ Transit System Operations and Networks
_ Transit Agency Operations, Economics, and Organization
_ Transit System Planning

Visually enhanced with nearly 250 illustrations, Urban Transit: Operations, Planning, and Economics is a reliable source of the latest information for transit planners and operators in transit agencies, metropolitan planning organizations, city governments, consulting firms as well as students of transportation engineering and city planning at universities and in professional courses.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 196mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1300g
• ISBN-13: 9780471632658
• ISBN-10: 0471632651
• Artikelnr.: 13484476

Autorenporträt

Vukan R. Vuchic, PhD, is UPS Foundation Professor of Transportation Engineering and Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. He has consulted in many cities around the world, lectured at seventy universities, and authored more than 140 publications, including the books Urban Public Transportation Systems and Technology and Transportation for Livable Cities.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Transit Operations and Service Scheduling. 1.1 Basic operating
elements. 1.2 Information files and data collection: surveys and counts.
1.3 Transit travel characteristics. 1.4 Scheduling of service. Chapter 2.
Capacity, Speed, Accelerated and Special Operations. 2.1 Transit line
capacity. 2.2 Increase of transit speed. 2.3 Stops and stopping regimes.
2.4 Accelerated rail transit operations with fixed stopping schedules. 2.5
Scheduling of single-track lines, circle lines and trunk lines with
branches. Chapter 3. Modeling and Optimization in Transit Systems Analysis.
3.1 Application of systems analysis in transit. 3.2 Conceptual models. 3.3
Mathematical modeling procedure and applications. 3.4 Applications of
simulation methodology. 3.5 Evaluation of systems analysis and operations
research in transit. Chapter 4. Transit Lines and Networks. 4.1 Planning
objectives, principles and considerations. 4.2 Geometry of transit lines.
4.3 Types of transit lines and their characteristics. 4.4 Transfers in
transit networks. 4.5 Timed transfer system networks. 4.6 Transit network
types and their characteristics. 4.7 Analysis of metro network geometric
forms. Chapter 5. Planning of Rail Transit Station Locations. 5.1
Objectives in station location planning. 5.2 Passenger travel time. 5.3
Other objectives in station locations selection. 5.4 Integration of
objectives. 5.5 Addition or closing of a station. 5.6 Area coverage vs.
operating speed. 5.7 Station spacings on actual rail transit networks.
Chapter 6. Transit Agency Operations, Economics and Marketing. 6.1
Organizational Structure of Transit Agencies. 6.2 Management and Personnel.
6.3 Transit System Statistics, Performance and Economic Measures. 6.4
Transit Agency Operations. 6.5 Transit System Full Accessibility. 6.6
Information System for Passengers. 6.7 Marketing and Public Relations.
Chapter 7. Transit Fares. 7.1 Objectives in transit fare determination. 7.2
Fare collection. 7.3 Fare structures. 7.4 Reduced and special fares. 7.5
Fare level. Chapter 8. Financing of Transit. 8.1 Principles and Trends in
Financing Transit Services. 8.2 Sources of Local and State Funds for
Transit. 8.3 Federal Funding of Transit. 8.4 Improving efficiency of
transit agencies. Chapter 9. Transit Ownership, Regulation and
Organization. 9.1 Private transit companies and public takeover. 9.2
Ownership and forms of transit systems. 9.3 Integration of services
provided by different operators. 9.4 Regulation of transit services. 9.5
Unregulated transit services. 9.6 Evolving forms of transit ownership,
organization and management. Chapter 10. Transit Systems Planning. 10.1
Purpose and organization of transit planning. 10.2 Planning procedure and
methodology. 10.3 Travel and transit demand forecasting. 10.4 Transit plan
development, evaluation and selection. 10.5 Review of the process and
trends in transit planning. Chapter 11. Analysis, Evaluation and Selection
of Transit Modes. 11.1 Evaluation and selection of public projects. 11.2
Transit mode evaluations. 11.3 Definition of the "conditions set". 11.4
Formulation of candidate modes, their comparison and selection. Chapter 12.
Planning and Selection of Medium and High Performance Transit Modes. 12.1
Basic elements of transit modes. 12.2 Medium performance transit modes.
12.3 High performance transit modes.

Rezensionen

"In a unique approach, this comprehensive book provides an integration of theoretical concepts, analytical methods and practical solutions that transit operators and planners need." ( Public Transport International , May 2005)
"...essential knowledge for someone planning a transport system." ( Tramways & Urban Transit , September 2007)