Urban Mass Transportation Planning

This text is part of the McGraw-Hill Series in Transportation. It is based on the author's 35 years of experience in urban transportation planning, mostly as a professor, and is addressed to urban planning students. The book should be useful in courses that deal generally with transportation planning or the urban transportation problem. It's emphasis is on policy issues. The contents are organized in the following 16 chapters: (1) The Role of Transit; (2) The History of Urban Transit; (3) The Federal Role in Urban Transit; (4) Institutions and Issues; (5) Conventional Transit Modes; (6) Paratransit; (7) Innovative Technology; (8) Planning Transit Networks; (9) Operations and Management; (10) Transit and Urban Development; (11) Energy and Environmental Impacts; (12) The People Who Ride Transit; (13) Special Groups of Users; (14) Estimating System Costs; (15) Pricing and Financing; and (16) Policies for the Future. There are two appendices: (A) Landmarks in the History of Urban Mass Transit, and (B) Public Elections on Mass Transit Proposals. An Index is provided.