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Evaluating The Planning And Implementation Of Major Transit Capital Projects In The Portland Region, Joseph Recker
Evaluating The Planning And Implementation Of Major Transit Capital Projects In The Portland Region, Joseph Recker
PSU Transportation Seminars
The Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) discretionary New Starts program is the federal government's largest discretionary funding program. From heavy to light rail, from commuter rail to bus rapid transit systems, the FTA's New Starts program has helped to make possible hundreds of new or extended transit fixed guideway systems across the country, including most of TriMet’s light rail extensions and WES commuter rail. Beginning in 2001, FTA has required project sponsors to prepare a Before and After Study report on the effectiveness of planning and implementation of New Starts and Small Starts projects. The studies focus on five transit characteristics …
Capturing The Ride: Exploring Low-Density Flexible Transit Alternatives In Salem-Keizer, Darwin Moosavi
Capturing The Ride: Exploring Low-Density Flexible Transit Alternatives In Salem-Keizer, Darwin Moosavi
PSU Transportation Seminars
Current fixed-route transit service provided by Salem-Keizer Transit is inefficient in the low-density neighborhoods of West Salem, South Salem, and Keizer. The lack of sidewalks, non-gridded circuitous streets, and large single-family residential lots all contribute to a lack of ridership. As a result, traditional fixed-route transit service is not cost-effective in these areas. Through a five month planning process, a group of Portland State University graduate students, better known as Paradigm Planning, tackled the task of addressing this problem in each of the three study areas. Paradigm’s planning process explored mode and route options in order to produce a plan …