CE 350 Introduction to Transportation Planning

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CE 350Introduction to Transportation Planning

• Class 15 and 16

Chapter 13 Urban Transit
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Objectives

• Transit is a business
• Role of transit in urban transportation
• Types of public transit
• Capacities of different types of transit
• Relationship of transit to urban design
• Stations as activity centers
• How to plan a bus route
• How to calculate operating costs

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Review the material associated with these tables
and figures in Chapter 13

• F 13-2 Transit mode share
• F 13-6 ROW types
• F13-20 Walking Distance
• T 13-7 productivity
• T 13-8
• T 13-11
• T 13-12

• T 13-15
• T 13-20 Land Use
• Page 476-477-478 costs
• T 13-33 Cost Allocation (Important)

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Types of Transit and Where Each Operates

• Paratransit -- street
• Bus, articulated bus street or busway
• Low-floor bus or light rail
• Trolley bus, articulated trolley Bus street
• Bus Rapid Transit -- street or ExROW
• Streetcar/light rail street or ExROW
• Heavy rail (Subway, elevated or Monorail) Always
  ExROW
• Automated guideway transit-- Always ExROW

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Terms

• Low platform stop
• High platform stop
• Cross platform transfer
• Near side bus stop
• Far side bus stop
• Self-service fare collection
• Low floor bus

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Three Part Cost FormulaImportant--Know this
Cost AHrs BMiles C Peak buses
A, B, C are factors developed from the
transit System chart of accounts as in Figure
13-33
Hours, Miles and peak buses are developed from
route planning
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Fleet RequirementsImportant-- Know This
Fleet Round Trip Miles Buses/hour
Miles/hr (Speed)
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Fleet Round Trip Miles 60 Min. /Hour
Miles/hour (speed) Headway in minutes
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Important Concepts

• Revenue vehicle miles and hours
• Total vehicle miles and hours
• Access Relationships p.458-9
• Walking distance to stops, land densities that
  will support transit

• Performance Measures
• Passengers per vehicle mile (or kilometer)
• cost per passenger
• operating ratio (ratio of revenue per passenger
  to cost per passenger)

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Emphasis
In this section, you should emphasize the various
modes of urban transit, relationship to land
uses, and routes planning. Know how to lay out
a route, estimate the annual miles and hours,
calculate the bus requirements, and estimate the
costs.