Urban Rapid Transit

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Urban Rapid Transit

• John Dulin
• Garrett Page
• Surbhi Kapoor

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What is Rapid Transit?

New York

• A passenger transport system in urban areas with
  high capacity and frequency, and grade separation
  from other traffic.

Chicago

• Typically located either in
• Underground tunnels
• on elevated viaducts above street level
• Outside urban centers, rapid transit lines may
  run on grade separated ground level tracks.

San Francisco
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Overview of Rapid Transit

• Rapid transit began with the opening with the
  opening in 1863 of the Metropolitan Railway, now
  part of the London Underground.

• A demonstration for an underground transit system
  in New York City was first built by Alfred Ely
  Beach in 1869.

• The Beach subway was demolished when the BMT
  Broadway Line was built in the 1910s thus, it
  was not integrated into the New York City Subway
  system.

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MAP-21

• 1st long-term highway authorization enacted since
  2005
• 105-billion
• 27 months, expiring in September 2014.

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New York City

• One of the most famous urban mass transit systems
  in the world
• served by Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH), and
  an extensive bus system.

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New York City

• Branded as MTA New York City Transit) is a public
  authority in the U.S. state of New York that
  operates public transportation in New York City.
  the
• Metropolitan Transportation Authority is, the
  busiest and largest transit system in North
  America,the NYCTA has a daily ridership of 7
  million trips (over 2 billion annually).

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New York City

• good news Residents of New York State use mass
  transit way more than other metropolitan areas,
  drivers in New York wear seatbelts, New York
  highways are relatively safe, and foreigners like
  to visit.

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New York City

• The bad news New Yorkers have the nation's
  second-longest commute and rely lots of
  "functionally obsolete" bridges, and New York's
  airports have punctuality issues, according to
  the U.S. Department of Transportation's ninth
  annual compendium of state transportation
  statistics

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Chicago

• Chicago has built its transit system to connect
  the cities of the east with the farmers of the
  west.
• This has made Urban Transit
• always focused on getting out
• of the city.

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Chicago

• The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) operates the
  nations second largest public transportation
  system. On an average weekday, 1.6 million rides
  are taken on CTA. The CTA is a regional transit
  system that serves 40 suburbs, in addition to the
  City of Chicago, and provides 83 percent of the
  public transit trips in the six-county Chicago
  metropolitan area. (http//www.transitchicago.com
  )

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Problems

• Traffic Jams
• 10 worst in U.S
• Ageing
• Poor investment into other forms of Public
  transport.

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Modern Chicago Rapid Transit

• 3 Major airports, with several smaller ones
• rebuilding old rail lines, and integrating them
  with other forms of public transit

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San Francisco

• BART- Bay Area Rapid Transit
• ease congestion
• connect cities suburbs
• September 11, 1972
• 5th busiest in the US
• outdoor underground
• Carried lt2.7 billion people
• BART 40 Years

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Challenges for BART

• Aging
• Population
• Incompatible with other systems

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BART Connecting Services

• Direct connections to 2 rail services
• Caltrain, which provides service between San
  Francisco, San Jose, and Gilroy
• Amtrak's Capitol Corridor, which runs from
  Sacramento to San Jose
• Bus transit services
• Host's car sharing
• Airport's
• San Francisco International Airport (direct)
• Oakland International Airport (AirBART)

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Future of BART

• Expansion and Extension
• Warm Springs
• Oakland Airport Connector
• New Train Car Project
• 896 million contract award to Bombardier Transit
  Corporation for design and construction of 410
  train cars.

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Questions

• Which of the following was not discussed for why
  rapid transit was built?
• ease congestion
• connect cities
• help the environment
• What is some bad news when it comes to New York
  Transit?
• a. the smell
• b. strikes
• c. punctuality due to congestion
• 3. What was the ILL Politician worked to get the
  transnational railroad to go throw Chicago.
• a.Lincoln
• b. Douglas
• c. Lewis

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References

• http//www.bart.gov/about/history/history1.aspx
• http//www.bayrailalliance.org/bart
• http//www.fhwa.dot.gov/map21/
• http//www.thetransportpolitic.com/2012/07/01/cong
  ress-passes-major-transportation-bill-preserving-t
  he-status-quo/
• http//www.transitchicago.com/about/facts.aspx
• http//autos.yahoo.com/news/the-worst-traffic-in-a
  merica--it-s-not-los-angeles.html
• http//www.hcs.harvard.edu/dreyfus/history.html
• http//www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/201
  2/08/6501694/report-new-york-transit-leader-and-co
  ngestion-leader-too