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Transit Agency Characteristics: An Industry Profile, Charles R. White, Sheldon Edner, Kathi Arlene Ketcheson

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

This study reports on a survey sent to 493 transit agencies in 1983. The survey instrument requested information concerning agency institutional type, operating characteristics, service area population, employment, management pool, finances and recruitment problems for the period 1979-1983. Surveys were returned by 207 agencies, 171 of which were accompanied by organization charts. The purpose of the survey was to solicit institutional information concerning agency structure to serve as background information for a subsequent study of respondent agency managers.

The study results describe a managerial context that si extremely diverse across agency characteristics, change in attributes and organizational patterns. Only the …

The Impact Of Emme-2 On Urban Transportation Planning: A Portland Case Study, Kenneth Dueker, Rishinath L. Rao, Andy Cotugno, Keith Lawton, Richard Walker

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

The impact of interactive graphics and an improved multimodal transportation planning software package on the urban t ransportation planning process and organization responsible for the planning is assessed. The focus is on the results of applying the new technology, which allows the planning organization to increase capacity to conceptualize and evaluate alternative courses of action. This emphases on the results of planning raises the likelihood of changes in the way transportation decision making occurs.

An advanced interactive graphics system for urban transportation planning process was adopted by the Metropolitan Service District (METRO) of Portland, Oregon, a Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO). …

A Process For Developing Transit Agency Comprehensive Training Plans, Daniel O'Toole, James Marshall

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

This report addresses a project whose goals were to create, use, and disseminate information on a process for developing transit agency comprehensive training plans (i.e., plans that contain the training needs for all positions in an organization). The report considers the following:

• The importance of agency training plans and the need for an appropriate process to produce one.

• Information on the project that was undertaken to design and use an appropriate transit agency training plan process.

• The design, components of, and rationale for the training plan process selected for this project.

• Application of the selected training …

Urban Decision Making For Transportation Investments: Portland's Light Rail Transit System, Sheldon Edner, G. B. Arrington Jr.

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

Investment decisions for large transportation projects are complex, multifaceted phenomena. Generally requiring many years to bring to fruition, such decisions are often reduced at crucial junctures to raw political deals or technical data analysis on limited items. Throughout the range of alternatives considered, analyses completed and policy-making sessions which contribute to such investments, the imagery of a rational, sequential and wholistic decision making process and substance dominates. Recent debate concerning both the desirability of certain transit investments and the extent to which inappropriate intrusion into the decision making province of state and local government have occurred have highlighted at least …

Proceedings Of A Workshop On Interactive Graphics For Transportation Planners, Kenneth Dueker, Ross Roberts

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

The workshop attracted transportation planners from transit and regional planning agencies, consulting firms, and local governments. It explored the use of interactive graphics coupled with multi-modal transportation planning.

Several key aspects of the use of interactive graphics were explored in panel discussions and demonstration workshop sessions. These aspects included the evolution of interactive graphics technology, the structured application of this technology in implementation, the operational environment, impacts on planning agencies and future applications of this technology.

The demonstration of applications was made possible by use of Metro's EMME/2 system. Metro is the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the Portland area. …

Cost Effectiveness Of Articulated Buses When Passenger Time Is Treated As A Cost, Anthony M. Rufolo

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

As the difference between fares and costs has increased over time, transit agencies have searched for ways to cut the cost of service. One method that is now being tried by some transit properties these buses there is a is the use of articulated buses. The larger size of allows one driver to serve more passengers. Thus, trade-off between higher capital costs for the bus and lower labor costs per passenger mile in operation. Hence, the use of the articulated bus appears to be a move toward greater labor productivity by increasing the capital-intensiveness of transit.

The conclusion that articulated …

Banfield Light Rail Project Theme Study, Columbia Research Center, Inc.

TriMet Collection

No abstract provided.

Economic Effects Of Tri-Met's Operating And Capital Expenditures Fy 1983 On The Portland Metropolitan Economy, James G. Strathman, Rishinath L. Rao

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

A summary of the transit-related benefits and an assessment of the economic effects of Tri-Met's operating and capital expenditures was performed. The economic effects of the agency's expenditures were derived using a 24-sector input-output model of the four county Portland SMSA economy. Input output analysis is frequently used for the purpose of impact assessment because it provides exceptionally detailed estimates of interindustry activity, employment and income that result from agency/project related expenditures. The primary data and background information needed to perform this analysis were provided by the Tri-Met Transit Planning and Development Office.

Effects Of Banfield Transitway Expenditures On The Portland Metropolitan Economy, James G. Strathman

TriMet Collection

No abstract provided.

Shifts In Urban Transportation Issues And Policy: Are Educational Materials Keeping Pace, Kenneth Dueker, Sebastian Degens, Michael Hayakawa

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

The changing problem perceptions in urban transportation have pushed a succession of issues to the forefront in the last twenty years. Urban transportation policy has adjusted to this changing environment with both incremental and radical policy innovations. Transportation education should maintain a high degree of correspondence with contemporary issues in the field. The authors fear that the shifting transportation agenda may outdate transportation literature swiftly.

The article begins with a review of the policy innovations in urban transportation issues and major since 1956 . The second part of the study analyzes articles by a policy analyst, documents containing transportation planning …

Regional Bicycle Plan, Metropolitan Service District, Andrew Cotugno

Portland Regional Planning History

No abstract provided.

Trimet Banfield Light Rail Transit Project: Civil And Construction Safety Manual, Banfield Risk And Insurance Managers

TriMet Collection

No abstract provided.

Self-Service Fare Collection: Pre-Implementation Fare Compliance Study, Debra Hardmeyer, Philip Selinger

TriMet Collection

No abstract provided.

The Banfield Light Rail Project: An Opinion Survey Of The Banfield Neighborhood, Bardsley & Haslacher, Inc.

TriMet Collection

No abstract provided.

Report On Long Term Financing For Tri-Met, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Portland Self-Service Fare Collection Evaluation Implementation Technical Memorandum: Pre-Implementation Data Collection And Analysis, Transportation Systems Center, Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District Of Oregon

TriMet Collection

No abstract provided.

Banfield Light Rail Project: Conceptual Design Information For The City Of Portland, Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District Of Oregon

TriMet Collection

No abstract provided.

Banfield Transitway Project: Light Rail Transit Line And Banfield Freeway Improvements: Final Environmental Impact Statement, United States. Federal Highway Administration, United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Oregon. State Highway Division

TriMet Collection

No abstract provided.

Constitutional Amendment Limits Uses Of Gasoline And Highway User Taxes (State Measure No.1), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Public Transit And Student Choice : A Survey With Portland State University Students, Sheku Gibril Kamara

Dissertations and Theses

Research in urban transportation has been of many facets. Some have emphasized modes and routes while others have attempted to isolate and look at small segments of the transportation market with specific demands. Such segments include workers, recreation riders, and to a less extent, students. In the "journey-to-work" studies, a major finding has been that as income of workers increases, the distance between residence and work-place also increases.

This thesis starts with a series of hypotheses generated as a result of the findings of other studies reviewed in the literature. In testing the hypotheses, variables that are likely to influence …

Light Rail Transit For The Portland Metropolitan Region: A Status Report And Analysis, David O. Jermain

TriMet Collection

No abstract provided.

Banfield Transitway Project, Multnomah County: Hearing And Project Report, Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District Of Oregon, Oregon. Department Of Transportation

TriMet Collection

No abstract provided.

Banfield Transitway Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Volume 1, United States. Federal Highway Administration, Oregon. State Highway Division, United States. Department Of Transportation

TriMet Collection

No abstract provided.

Light Rail Transit Station Zones: Technical Report, Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District Of Oregon

TriMet Collection

No abstract provided.

Banfield Transitway Project Downtown Circulation Alternatives, Tri-County Metropolitan Transit District

TriMet Collection

No abstract provided.

Fareless Square, Betty Barker, Sally Campbell, Mike Kyte, Sharon Goodmonson, Dara Hoerman

TriMet Collection

No abstract provided.

A Bikeway Plan For The Columbia-Willamette Region: A Proposed Element Of The Columbia-Willamette Region Comprehensive Plan (Draft For Review And Comment), Columbia Region Association Of Governments

Portland Regional Planning History

No abstract provided.

Report On Planning For Transportation In The Portland Metropolitan Area, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

City Club Of Portland Bulletin Vol. 41, No. 04 (1960-6-24), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.