Other Transit Options
Car sharing service example ("Zipcar") - Chapel Hill
Car sharing service example ("Go Loco")
Car sharing service example ("U Car Share") - Washington, DC
Light rail - Charlotte South Corridor (Lynx Blue Line)
10 miles, 14 stations, Center City Charlotte to I-485 outer loop
Commuter rail - Virginia Railway Express (Fredericksburg and Manassas lines)
2 lines, 10 and 12 stations, both terminating at Union Station Washington
Commuter rail -- Nashville, Tennessee (Music City Star)
$41 million capital costs for 31 miles; service began September 2006
Bus - Eugene, Oregon (EmX - Franklin Corridor)
Combo bus lanes and mixed traffic lanes with signal priority/queue jumpers
$24m construction cost (existing bus lines have 5,000 riders)
Bus - Pittsburgh (The Martin Luther King, Jr. East Busway)
9 lines, 25,000 people per day
Bus - Orlando (Lymmo downtown shuttle)
21 stops along a three-mile, high-frequency route
Flex Trolley - Atlanta (concept)
Monorail - Las Vegas
32,000 passengers, 7 stations, 4 miles, privately-owned
Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) - West Virginia University at Morgantown
Fully automated, 8 miles long, card activated, user selects destination station by pushbutton.
New York Times article, June 2007
Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) - London Heathrow Airport
Pilot project of this personal, automated, point to point taxi to open in 2008.
Transit visualization system ("TransLoc") - Raleigh, NC
Provides real-time information about Wolfline bus locations and movement via an internet mapping tool that includes recognizable landmarks
Real time ridesharing example ("Goose network") - Seattle
Demand Responsive Transit Broker example ("Texxi") - Liverpool, England
Currently used to coordinate shared taxi rides via mobile phone text messaging
Taxi ridesharing ("UCRides") - Cambridge, MA |
