Public Transportation. Dec 2004Public transportation Definition What is Public Transportation?...

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What is Public Transportation?What is Public Transportation?

Public transportation includes all vehicle services Public transportation includes all vehicle services designed to transport customers on local and designed to transport customers on local and regional routes. These services include: private and regional routes. These services include: private and public buses; vanpools; heavy and light rail…. public buses; vanpools; heavy and light rail….


Why?Why?

Faster, less stressful, more productive

Transit helps reduce traffic congestion

Transit spurs development and economic growth

Transit versus highways

Transit is vital to national security

Improving air quality

Reduced energy consumption and dependence.


Transit and Personal healthTransit and Personal health

The Health Threat: Air PollutionAir pollution claims 70,000 lives a year, nearly twice the number killed in traffic accidentsThe American Lung Association estimated that, as far back as 1993-94, high levels of ozone in 13 cities resulted in 10,000 to 15,000 additional hospital admissions and 30,000 to 50,000 additional emergency room visits.The annual cost of health damage from motor vehicle pollutionis estimated to be between $29 billion and $530 billion…



Transit answers:Transit answers:Compared with private vehicles, public transportation produces, on average, per passenger mile, 95 percent less carbon monoxide, 92 percent fewer volatile organic compounds, 45 percent less carbon dioxide and 48 percent less nitrogen oxide



The Health Threat: Accidents and Injuries

Transit answers: Public transportation trips result in 190,000 fewer deaths, injuries and accidents annually than trips by car, providing $2 billion to $5 billion in safety benefits, based on 1994 data

Riding the bus is 170 times safer than automobile travel, according to National Safety Council data.21



The Health Threat: Road Stress

Transit answers:Transit answers:less travel time

more predictability

enhanced control

less effort required


Transit and CongestionTransit and Congestion

Each person traveling in peak periods wastes, on average, 62 hours a year—nearly eight full working days in congestion delays.Congestion is becoming more widespread, experienced by nearly 60 percent of urban roadways in 2000Congestion is no longer confined to our largest metropolitan areas. As long ago as 1997, two-thirds

of peak-period traffic was congested in areas of 500,000 or less.



The cause:The cause:Disproportionate increases in private vehicle use.

under-investment in public transportation and lack of travel alternatives reinforce private vehicle

Distant stations Inadequate networks



Transit answers:Transit answers:A full rail car removes 200 cars from the road.A full bus removes 60 cars.A full van removes 12 cars.Public transportation passengers saved 17,400 hours daily over auto travel in the corridors.Remaining road users in the corridors saved 22,000 hours of delay per day due to the absence of vehicles from public transportation users.Travelers on surrounding roads in the corridors saved an additional 20,700 hours daily as spillover congestion was reduced.


Different Kinds of Public Different Kinds of Public TransportationTransportation

BusBus

Car poor and VanpoolCar poor and Vanpool

MetroMetro

Light trainLight train

Mono railMono rail

TaxiTaxi

FerryFerry

BikeBike


CarpoolCarpool

A carpool is a group of two or more people who commute to work or other A carpool is a group of two or more people who commute to work or other destinations together in a private vehicle. Carpool members work out their own destinations together in a private vehicle. Carpool members work out their own agreements on who drives and how often, schedules, and payments for gas and agreements on who drives and how often, schedules, and payments for gas and maintenance.maintenance.

A vanpool is a prearranged group of five to fifteen people who share their A vanpool is a prearranged group of five to fifteen people who share their commute. The group enjoys a low monthly fare and a comfortable commute in an commute. The group enjoys a low monthly fare and a comfortable commute in an 8, 12, or 15 passenger van, usually provided by a local transit authority, nonprofit 8, 12, or 15 passenger van, usually provided by a local transit authority, nonprofit group or employer. Members—usually co-workers or people who work in the same group or employer. Members—usually co-workers or people who work in the same vicinity—volunteer to drive, fuel and keep the van clean, and schedule vicinity—volunteer to drive, fuel and keep the van clean, and schedule maintenance and repair work.maintenance and repair work.

High occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, commonly called carpool lanes, are lanes High occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, commonly called carpool lanes, are lanes reserved for people who share the ride in carpools, vanpools and/or buses or drive a reserved for people who share the ride in carpools, vanpools and/or buses or drive a motorcycle. These lanes are marked with a diamond symbol and HOV signs. motorcycle. These lanes are marked with a diamond symbol and HOV signs.


CarpoolCarpool


Light trainLight train

An electric railway system, An electric railway system, characterized by its ability characterized by its ability to operate single or multiple to operate single or multiple car consists (trains) along car consists (trains) along exclusive rights-of-way at exclusive rights-of-way at ground level, on aerial ground level, on aerial structures, in subways or in structures, in subways or in streets, able to board and streets, able to board and discharge passengers at discharge passengers at station platforms or at street, station platforms or at street, track, or car-floor level and track, or car-floor level and normally powered by normally powered by overhead electrical wires. overhead electrical wires.


Mono railMono rail

A single rail serving as a A single rail serving as a track for passenger vehicles, track for passenger vehicles, in most cases the rail is in most cases the rail is elevated, but the monorails elevated, but the monorails can also run at grade, below can also run at grade, below or above the ground or above the ground Vehicles are either Vehicles are either suspended from or straddle suspended from or straddle a narrow beam a narrow beam Monorail vehicles are wider Monorail vehicles are wider that the beam that supports that the beam that supports themthem


FerryFerryA ferry is a A ferry is a boat or a or a shipship carrying passengers, and possibly carrying passengers, and possibly their vehicles, on a relatively short-distance, regularly-their vehicles, on a relatively short-distance, regularly-scheduled service. scheduled service. Ferries form an important part of the Ferries form an important part of the public transport systems systems of many waterside cities, allowing direct transit between of many waterside cities, allowing direct transit between points at a capital cost much lower than points at a capital cost much lower than bridges or or tunnels. . A foot-passenger ferry with many stops, such as in A foot-passenger ferry with many stops, such as in Venice, is , is called a called a waterbuswaterbus or or water taxiwater taxi. .

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MetroMetro

MetroMetro is a form of mass is a form of mass transit public transport transit public transport system employing trains. In system employing trains. In many cases, at least a many cases, at least a portion of the rails are portion of the rails are placed in tunnels dug placed in tunnels dug beneath the surface of a city beneath the surface of a city in which case the system in which case the system may be called the may be called the UndergroundUnderground or the or the subwaysubway


World’s Largest Subway World’s Largest Subway SystemsSystems


BikesBikes

customer demand

bike facilities and safety

profitability

theft and vandalism

multimodal connectivity


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Make it a community partner

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