Bus vs. Rail * USA - Some Interesting New Data
Coalition On Sustanaible Transportation -COAST
Austin,TX,USA -Jim Skaggs' Transportation Comments -16 Mar 2008: -- Comments: This article highlights a delima Austin is facing regarding transit services. Capital Metro has announced it is not financially capable of implementing acceptable region wide transit coverage but it is promoting and plannning the implmentation of the least cost-effective form of Austin transit, fixed rail, which can cover a very small portion of the region, instead of a comprehensive Bus Rapid Transit system which is much more cost-effective and could provide excellent service throughout the region...
* Surface Transportation Innovations
By Robert Poole -Issue No. 45 -July 2007: -- The idea that bus rapid transit (BRT) is more cost-effective than light rail transit (LRT) has been in circulation for some time, but has been much-disputed. One big problem is that so many types of bus service are included under the heading of BRT that “average” figures on cost and ridership blurs many real differences. What’s been needed is an apples vs. apples comparison of high-end, exclusive-busway BRT with LRT... Just about the perfect example of such a comparison was presented to a standing-room-only audience at the Transportation Research Board annual meeting in Washington, DC last January. It compares two recent projects in Los Angeles: the BRT Orange Line and the LRT Gold Line. This comparison is in: “A Preliminary Evaluation of the Metro Orange Line Bus Rapid Transit Project,” by William Vincent and Lisa Callaghan of the Breakthrough Technologies Institute...
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