A broad coverage is made of U.S. Government-sponsored research on bus transportation. Volume 1 deals with topics of national or general scope, such as safety, maintenance, scheduling, engines and propulsion, travel demand, costs, stations and terminals, subsidies, fuel, special services, user groups, bus types, vehicle engineering, and highway aspects. Also discussed are symposia, traffic models, mathematical analysis, computer aided planning, marketing, and urban needs. Other subjects are express routes, air pollution, fares, ridership, bus lanes, forecasting, simulation, park-and-ride, personnel training, crime and vandalism, comfort, operating and handling dynamics, and allied topics. (Contains 175 abstracts).
Bus Transportation. Volume 1. National and General Studies (A Bibliography with Abstracts)
1975
180 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Transportation & Traffic Planning , Bibliographies , Passenger transportation , Bus lines , Transit buses , Urban transportation , Transportation planning , Buses(Vehicles) , Bus lanes , Project planning , Scheduling , Transit riders , Transportation management , Travel demand , Reference groups , Systems engineering , Passenger terminals , Computer programming , Subsidy programs , Cost analysis , Public relations , Mathematical models , Surveys , Marketing , Transit fares , Ridership