1987•Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research BoardRequires access

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT AND COORDINATION: SAN DIEGO CASE STUDY

T F Larwin

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The San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board (MTDB) was created by the California state legislation in 1975 and empowered to plan, construct, and operate mass transit guideways and to perform near-term planning. The agency has evolved into an umbrella organization that has broad transit development, planning, programming, and financing powers. Operations of transit services are performed by a variety of operational units controlled by MTDB in a unified system. This system has been officially called the Metropolitan Transit System (MTS). Made up of six fixed-route bus carriers, one light rail transit (LRT) operator, and four general-purpose dial-a-rides, the MTS is characterized by unified fares, transfers, passes, and route numbers.

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Key concepts: Public transport, Metropolitan area, Transit (satellite), Transport engineering, Transportation planning, Agency (philosophy), Plan (archaeology), Legislation