1. Public Transportation

2. Public transportation
Definition
What is Public Transportation?
Public transportation includes all vehicle services designed to transport customers on local and regional routes. These services include: private and public buses; vanpools; heavy and light rail….
Dec 2004
Public transportation

3. Public transportation
Why?
Faster, less stressful, more productive
Transit helps reduce traffic congestion
Transit spurs development and economic growth
Transit versus highways
Transit is vital to national security
Improving air quality
Reduced energy consumption and dependence.
Dec 2004
Public transportation

4. Transit and Personal health
The Health Threat: Air Pollution
Air pollution claims 70,000 lives a year, nearly twice the number killed in traffic accidents
The American Lung Association estimated that, as far back as , high levels of ozone in 13 cities resulted in 10,000 to 15,000 additional hospital admissions and 30,000 to 50,000 additional emergency room visits.
The annual cost of health damage from motor vehicle pollution
is estimated to be between $29 billion and $530 billion …
Dec 2004
Public transportation

5. Transit and Personal health
Transit answers:
Compared with private vehicles, public transportation produces, on average, per passenger mile, 95 percent less carbon monoxide, 92 percent fewer volatile organic compounds, 45 percent less carbon dioxide and 48 percent less nitrogen oxide
Dec 2004
Public transportation

6. Transit and Personal health
The Health Threat: Accidents and Injuries
Transit answers:
Public transportation trips result in 190,000 fewer deaths, injuries and accidents annually than trips by car, providing $2 billion to $5 billion in safety benefits, based on 1994 data
Riding the bus is 170 times safer than automobile travel, according to National Safety Council data.21
Dec 2004
Public transportation

7. Transit and Personal health
The Health Threat: Road Stress
Transit answers:
less travel time
more predictability
enhanced control
less effort required
Dec 2004
Public transportation

8. Transit and Congestion
Each person traveling in peak periods wastes, on average, 62 hours a year—nearly eight full working days in congestion delays.
Congestion is becoming more widespread, experienced by nearly 60 percent of urban roadways in 2000
Congestion is no longer confined to our largest metropolitan areas. As long ago as 1997, two-thirds
of peak-period traffic was congested in areas of 500,000 or less.
Dec 2004
Public transportation

9. Transit and Congestion
The cause:
Disproportionate increases in private vehicle use.
under-investment in public transportation and lack of travel alternatives reinforce private vehicle
Distant stations
Inadequate networks
Dec 2004
Public transportation

10. Transit and Congestion
Transit answers:
A full rail car removes 200 cars from the road.
A full bus removes 60 cars.
A full van removes 12 cars.
Public transportation passengers saved 17,400 hours daily over auto travel in the corridors.
Remaining road users in the corridors saved 22,000 hours of delay per day due to the absence of vehicles from public transportation users.
Travelers on surrounding roads in the corridors saved an additional 20,700 hours daily as spillover congestion was reduced.
Dec 2004
Public transportation

11. Public transportation
Dec 2004
Public transportation

12. Different Kinds of Public Transportation
Bus
Car poor and Vanpool
Metro
Light train
Mono rail
Taxi
Ferry
Bike
Dec 2004
Public transportation

13. Public transportation
Carpool
A carpool is a group of two or more people who commute to work or other destinations together in a private vehicle. Carpool members work out their own agreements on who drives and how often, schedules, and payments for gas and maintenance.
A vanpool is a prearranged group of five to fifteen people who share their commute. The group enjoys a low monthly fare and a comfortable commute in an 8, 12, or 15 passenger van, usually provided by a local transit authority, nonprofit group or employer. Members—usually co-workers or people who work in the same vicinity—volunteer to drive, fuel and keep the van clean, and schedule maintenance and repair work.
High occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, commonly called carpool lanes, are lanes reserved for people who share the ride in carpools, vanpools and/or buses or drive a motorcycle. These lanes are marked with a diamond symbol and HOV signs.
Dec 2004
Public transportation

14. Public transportation
Carpool
Dec 2004
Public transportation

15. Public transportation
Light train
An electric railway system, characterized by its ability to operate single or multiple car consists (trains) along exclusive rights-of-way at ground level, on aerial structures, in subways or in streets, able to board and discharge passengers at station platforms or at street, track, or car-floor level and normally powered by overhead electrical wires.
Dec 2004
Public transportation

16. Public transportation
Mono rail
A single rail serving as a track for passenger vehicles, in most cases the rail is elevated, but the monorails can also run at grade, below or above the ground
Vehicles are either suspended from or straddle a narrow beam
Monorail vehicles are wider that the beam that supports them
Dec 2004
Public transportation

17. Public transportation
Ferry
A ferry is a boat or a ship carrying passengers, and possibly their vehicles, on a relatively short-distance, regularly-scheduled service.
Ferries form an important part of the public transport systems of many waterside cities, allowing direct transit between points at a capital cost much lower than bridges or tunnels.
A foot-passenger ferry with many stops, such as in Venice, is called a waterbus or water taxi.
Dec 2004
Public transportation

18. Public transportation
Metro
Metro is a form of mass transit public transport system employing trains. In many cases, at least a portion of the rails are placed in tunnels dug beneath the surface of a city in which case the system may be called the Underground or the subway
Dec 2004
Public transportation

19. World’s Largest Subway Systems
Dec 2004
Public transportation

20. Public transportation
Bikes
customer demand
bike facilities and safety
profitability
theft and vandalism
multimodal connectivity
Dec 2004
Public transportation

21. Unleash the power of public transportation
Make it a planning priority
Make it the centre of your community
Make it look fantastic
Make it easy street for pedestrians
Make it the hottest ticket in town
Dec 2004
Public transportation

22. Unleash the power of public transportation
Make it everybody’s business
Make it a next door neighbor
Make it a canvas for new ideas
Make it a community partner
Make it a wise investment
Dec 2004
Public transportation