The report reviews the third year's efforts of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration's Urban Rapid Rail Vehicle and Systems Program. The objective of the Program is to enhance the attractiveness of rail rapid transit to the urban traveler by providing him with transit vehicles that are as comfortable, reliable, safe and economical as possible. Accomplishments for the year ending June 1974 included the following: Completion of the review of BART data; completion of the SOAC test and simulated demonstration programs at the High Speed Ground Test Center, Pueblo, Colorado after repairing the damage to the SOAC cars resulting from a collision with a standing car on August 11, 1973; completion of SOAC demonstration runs on the NYCTA lines.


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    Title :

    Urban Rapid Rail Vehicle and Systems Program


    Publication date :

    1974


    Size :

    125 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English