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any of their funding considerations for new or expanding rail transit systems. In conclusion, with the increasing awareness of the necessity of having station designs that are cost effective with regard to capital operations and maintenance, the transit design professionals must find ways to establish common analytical approaches to undertaking sophisticated analyses of alternative station designs on behalf of the local operating transit authorities as well as the local and Federal funding agencies. Messrs. Hoe1 and Roszner have reminded their fellow professionals in this publication that such systematic procedures are still in the embryonic stages of development and that it is now timely to establish these mechanisms formally. Readers might appreciate knowing that two other transport modes, air and rail, have both recently produced so-called handbooks dealing with station planning and design methodologies, planning standards, design criteria and evaluation parameters. The Federal Aviation Administration has published a manual entitled the Apron Terminal Complex, written by the Ralph M. Parsons Company, and the Federal Railroad Administration has published a manual entitled Northeast Corridor Stations, Performance Standards, written by Harry Weese and Associates. Both documents are available from the National Technical Information Service in McLean, Virginia.
subject at hand. A more complete bibliography of recent articles and publications dealing with the subject of transit station planning and design would also have been a most useful addition to this booklet. Although the majority of the conference reports included in this publication are not terribly enlightening from the standpoint of the experienced professional, the edited remarks of the discussions which took place during the actual conference sessions are particularly interesting and provide a much more informative perspective on the real state of the art in this subject. There is no question that the industry does need to have a suitable handbook for undertaking sophisticated analyses of alternative transit station designs to avoid redundancies and errors which seem to be appearing rather consistently in transit station projects throughout the country. It is also clear that a uniform set of evaluation parameters for undertaking this analysis would be most useful to the industry. If the authors of this booklet were to continue their initiative in this subject area, more than likely the Urban Mass Transportation Administration within the Department of Transportation would be most receptive to such a document. The necessity for undertaking analyses of alternatives not only with regard to basic transit system hardware but also station design is eminently clear since UMTA now insists on a formalized alternatives analysis as a part of
Brief Notices Urban Transportation Technology, Thomas McGean, Lexington Books, D. C. Heath and Company, Lexington, MA, 1976,295 pp.
Urban Fares Policy, Alexander Grey, Saxon House and Lexington Books, D. C. Heath and Company, Lexington, MA, 1975,156 pp.
This book isconcerned with the engineering aspects of transportation hardware, as opposed to the planning and design of systems for specific applications. But, it must be emphasized that this is not a text on the detailed design of transportation hardware; rather, it is a transportation systems engineering text that provides rule of thumb performance capabilities for automobile, bus, rail, and new system technology, as well as some general engineering approaches suitable for estimating the performance of, or for performance feasibility studies and parametric tradeoff analysis for, any type of transit system. The material is presented in two parts. Chapters l-7 deal with .general systems engineering concepts, which should be of value to both the systems engineer and the urban planner. Topics include headway and capacity relationships, typical performance levels for different transportation systems, station design, and energy and environmental impacts. Chapters g-12, which are primarily of interest to systems engineers, emphasize the technology of the vehicle. Topics include propulsion, braking, ride quality, and steering and switching concepts. These chapters should also be of help as a general introduction to the concepts of transportation vehicle design.
This book explores a number of issues concerned with how public transport services in towns should be charged. (Rural and inter-city services are not considered in their own right, but many of the author’s arguments and conclusions could apply there.) Although written from a practical standpoint, an attempt has been made to unravel certain theoretical issues as well, with the aim of narrowing the gap between theory and practice that exists in so many disciplines. Because the author has written this book for lay readers, as well as for academics and professionals working in the field, most of the mathematics and technical material appear in the ap pendices of this book, with the exception of Chapter 4. ’
Bicycles and Tricycles: An Elementary Treatise on Their I Ikiign and Con&uction, Archibald- Sharp, The MIT / Press, Cambridge, MA, 1977,536 pp. (Reprint of the 1896 ; edition published by Longmans, Green, London.) There are only a few books, of scientific merit, on the
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any of their funding considerations for new or expanding rail transit systems. In conclusion, with the increasing awareness of the necessity of having station designs that are cost effective with regard to capital operations and maintenance, the transit design professionals must find ways to establish common analytical approaches to undertaking sophisticated analyses of alternative station designs on behalf of the local operating transit authorities as well as the local and Federal funding agencies. Messrs. Hoe1 and Roszner have reminded their fellow professionals in this publication that such systematic procedures are still in the embryonic stages of development and that it is now timely to establish these mechanisms formally. Readers might appreciate knowing that two other transport modes, air and rail, have both recently produced so-called handbooks dealing with station planning and design methodologies, planning standards, design criteria and evaluation parameters. The Federal Aviation Administration has published a manual entitled the Apron Terminal Complex, written by the Ralph M. Parsons Company, and the Federal Railroad Administration has published a manual entitled Northeast Corridor Stations, Performance Standards, written by Harry Weese and Associates. Both documents are available from the National Technical Information Service in McLean, Virginia.
subject at hand. A more complete bibliography of recent articles and publications dealing with the subject of transit station planning and design would also have been a most useful addition to this booklet. Although the majority of the conference reports included in this publication are not terribly enlightening from the standpoint of the experienced professional, the edited remarks of the discussions which took place during the actual conference sessions are particularly interesting and provide a much more informative perspective on the real state of the art in this subject. There is no question that the industry does need to have a suitable handbook for undertaking sophisticated analyses of alternative transit station designs to avoid redundancies and errors which seem to be appearing rather consistently in transit station projects throughout the country. It is also clear that a uniform set of evaluation parameters for undertaking this analysis would be most useful to the industry. If the authors of this booklet were to continue their initiative in this subject area, more than likely the Urban Mass Transportation Administration within the Department of Transportation would be most receptive to such a document. The necessity for undertaking analyses of alternatives not only with regard to basic transit system hardware but also station design is eminently clear since UMTA now insists on a formalized alternatives analysis as a part of
Brief Notices Urban Transportation Technology, Thomas McGean, Lexington Books, D. C. Heath and Company, Lexington, MA, 1976,295 pp.
Urban Fares Policy, Alexander Grey, Saxon House and Lexington Books, D. C. Heath and Company, Lexington, MA, 1975,156 pp.
This book isconcerned with the engineering aspects of transportation hardware, as opposed to the planning and design of systems for specific applications. But, it must be emphasized that this is not a text on the detailed design of transportation hardware; rather, it is a transportation systems engineering text that provides rule of thumb performance capabilities for automobile, bus, rail, and new system technology, as well as some general engineering approaches suitable for estimating the performance of, or for performance feasibility studies and parametric tradeoff analysis for, any type of transit system. The material is presented in two parts. Chapters l-7 deal with .general systems engineering concepts, which should be of value to both the systems engineer and the urban planner. Topics include headway and capacity relationships, typical performance levels for different transportation systems, station design, and energy and environmental impacts. Chapters g-12, which are primarily of interest to systems engineers, emphasize the technology of the vehicle. Topics include propulsion, braking, ride quality, and steering and switching concepts. These chapters should also be of help as a general introduction to the concepts of transportation vehicle design.
This book explores a number of issues concerned with how public transport services in towns should be charged. (Rural and inter-city services are not considered in their own right, but many of the author’s arguments and conclusions could apply there.) Although written from a practical standpoint, an attempt has been made to unravel certain theoretical issues as well, with the aim of narrowing the gap between theory and practice that exists in so many disciplines. Because the author has written this book for lay readers, as well as for academics and professionals working in the field, most of the mathematics and technical material appear in the ap pendices of this book, with the exception of Chapter 4. ’
Bicycles and Tricycles: An Elementary Treatise on Their I Ikiign and Con&uction, Archibald- Sharp, The MIT / Press, Cambridge, MA, 1977,536 pp. (Reprint of the 1896 ; edition published by Longmans, Green, London.) There are only a few books, of scientific merit, on the