This report is based on the Workshop on Trolley Bus Applications held in Seattle, Washington August 29-September 1, 1982. Chapter 1 provides a brief history of the trolley bus and its place in transportation. Chapter 2 offers some perspectives on the trolley bus as it reemerges as a transit alternative in large metropolitan areas. Chapters 3-6 summarize each of the meeting's topical sessions. Selected Materials include workshop reports on the topics of: Seattle's love affair with trolleys; the Dayton experience; Vancouver and the trolley bus; trolley coach applications in the 1980s: Toronto update; the trolley coach in Europe and other parts of the world; trolley bus development in Brazil; trolley bus economics; the trolley bus and the environment; trolley bus operations; the trolley bus and system design; freon-cooled choppers for trolley bus applications; a look at chopper systems; advanced technology for trolley bus systems; off-wire operation; modern trolley bus overhead contact lines; supervisory control systems; rebuilding Seattle's trolley overhead system.


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    Titel :

    Trolley Bus: Where It Is and Where It's Going


    Beteiligte:
    B. J. Vumbaco (Autor:in) / G. E. Benson (Autor:in) / F. C. Dyer (Autor:in) / T. E. Parkinson (Autor:in) / P. A. Wenning (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1983


    Format / Umfang :

    74 pages



    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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