Preliminary
Christopher Briem
February 2007
Reports with a local focus by date:
Comments on A Report
To the Council of the City of
http://ntl.bts.gov/lib/12000/12200/12230/12230.pdf
Yes that says 1935..
but it’s still worth a read. You could change the date and the $ amounts and
you would think you were reading about current debates.
Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade & Douglass.
Scanned here: http://www.briem.com/files/skybus.pdf
Sometimes refered to
as an early SKYBUS study. But if you want to see where a lot of the current transportation
infrastructure got started. If you just
read one thing, this should be it.
Light Rail Transit in
by Theodore C. Hardy, (Dir. of Planning, Construction and
Development Div., Port Authority of
Transportation Engineering Journal, Vol. 104, No. 4, July/August 1978, pp. 499-507.
No link sorry. In the Benedum/Engineering library at Pitt.
Transportation Access
And The Location Of Advanced Technology Firms In
By James P. DeAngelis, A. G. R. Bullen, Norman P. Hummon,
Steven Manners.
Scanned here: http://www.briem.com/files/transportationadvanced.pdf (summary only)
This is for those in
town who think the problem with spatial mismatch is something new.
Transit System
Performance Review:
Final Report. August 1987
Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc. with COMSIS Corporation
Prepared for Office of Planning Urban Mass Transportation
Administration
http://ntl.bts.gov/DOCS/PITT.html
Review of
Transportation Planning in
Research and Special Programs Administration
March 1993
http://ntl.bts.gov/lib/4000/4200/4296/46.pdf
Spine Line Corridor
Study.
Federal Transportation Administration
November 1993.
Scanned here: http://www.briem.com/files/spineline1993.pdf
If you think a Spine
Line should be a priority in the future, you almost have to start with where we
have been.
SKYBUS
by Morton Coleman, David Houston and Edward K. Muller. 2000.
http://www.industrystudies.pitt.edu/papers/skybus.pdf
The definitive history of that which was known as Skybus in Allegheny County.
The Benefits of Prenatal Care: Evidence from the PAT Bus Strike
by William N. Evans. Department of Economics University of Maryland and Diana
S. Lien, CNA
Corporation.
March
2002
Online at: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/econ/evans/wpapers/evans_lien_bus_strike_2.pdf
2030 Transportation
and Development Plan for
Adpoted July 31, 2003
http://www.spcregion.org/pub_lrp.shtml
A
Regional Strategic Vision for Public Transportation Serving Southwestern
Executive
Summary: TransitVision_ExecutiveSummary
(PDF, 2.73 MB)
Full
Report: TransitVision_FullReport
(PDF, 21.5 MB)
Investing
in our future. Addressing Pennsylvania’s
Transportation Funding Crisis.
Final
Report – Technical Appendix
By the
Pennsylvania Transportation Funding and reform Commission.
Final
Copy – January 2007
Online at: ftp://ftp.dot.state.pa.us/public/pdf/TFRCReport/PAACFullReport.pdf
Reports with some
Transportation Policy Project Resource Guide: Case Studies, Regions Respond to Change
Surface Transportation Policy Project
July 1993
http://ntl.bts.gov/DOCS/RRC.html
Surface Infrastructure. Costs, Financing and Schedules for Large-Dollar Transportation Projects
U.S. General Accounting Office
February 1998
http://ntl.bts.gov/lib/8000/8500/8559/rc98064.pdf
Modernizing Rail Transit For Today's City
American Public Transit Association
June 1979
http://ntl.bts.gov/lib/12000/12700/12789/12789.pdf
Mass Transit: Bus
Rapid Transit Shows Promise
U.S. General Accounting Office
September 2001
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d01984.pdf
Web Resources
National Transit Database:
http://www.ntdprogram.com/ntdprogram/
Bureau of
Transportation Statistics:
American Public
Transit Association:
Misc
Give the City Back to People: New Mobility Can Make Our
Cities a Joy Again
Jernstedt, George, W.; Phares, Tom K
A book that grew out of
Phares’ work on Skybus I think. I have a copy, but I it has been permanently
borrowed by someone. I would like to
have it back.
Metro Magazine (Public Transit)
http://www.metro-magazine.com/
Shawn Bennear's (now defunct) web page on Pittsburgh Transit History