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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"urban rail"”.
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Hysteresis and urban rail : the effects of past urban rail on current residential and travel choices
… examines the effects of one of these assets, urban rail, on residential location and travel behavior, from the era of horsecars and streetcars to the present in Boston. It explores the hysteretical effects of past access to rail--the extent to which the urban system retains the impacts of rail …
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Dwell time relationships for urban rail systems
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1990.
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Understanding capacity and performance of urban rail transit terminals
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2002.
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Sensing and Predicting Urban Rail Platform Crowding Using Emerging Data Sources
Rail platform crowding poses serious challenges to passenger safety, operational performance, and service quality in urban rail transit systems. This thesis investigates the short-term forecasting of platform-level crowding, focusing on enhancing prediction accuracy, spatial granularity, and …
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A framework for identification of systematic service deterioration in urban rail systems
… of transit information from well-developed apps, urban rail passengers are more and more aware of how long their journeys should take. This also means that passengers are becoming more sensitive to the gap between the service they expect of and what was actually provided. On the other hand, in …
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CLIMATE RESILIENCE OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: Network Modelling for Flood Resilience Assessment and Recovery Optimisation of Urban Rail Transit
… direct and indirect impacts on passengers, rail transit operations, and broad society.
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Building bus rapid transit into the existing public transit system : competition and integration of BRT and the Urban Rail Transit in cities in China
… in the world, including China. Since BRT and urban rail transit (URT) are both rapid public transports, the comparisons between the two will be inevitable. Generally speaking, BRT could theoretically reach the speed and capacity of light rail, but there is still a gap in abilities between BRT …
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From linear spaces to linear places : recycling rail corridors in urban areas
To date, the reuse of abandoned railroad rights-of-way has occurred primarily in suburban and rural areas. However, a new generation of urban rail corridor conversions appears to be underway. More urban in more places than prior rail-to-trail projects, the next generation of rail corridor …
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Mitigation of passenger effects of state of good repair projects using automated data sources
Legacy urban rail transit systems in North America increasingly face challenges in maintaining their infrastructure to provide reliable, effective, and safe service and absorb future growth in cities, which makes scheduled service disruptions to implement State of Good Repair (SGR) projects …
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Union Station, Tacoma, Washington : a design study for a surplus rail site
Recent technological changes in railroads, mergers, major shifts in urban land use patterns, and declining rail passenger travel has resulted in a surplus of urban rail lands. These lands represent a significant resource for land poor cities. An unparalleled opportunity exists for major new …
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Socioeconomic Impacts of Transportation Infrastructure at Different Spatial Scales
… (measured as socioeconomic change) and urban rail development at a regional level.
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Proposal for New Commuter Rail Service and TOD Master Plan Along Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway
The Guangzhou-Shenzhen Suburban Railroad Project seeks to transform regional transportation and urban development within the Greater Bay Area by introducing suburban rail services on the Guangshen Railway (GSR). This proposal outlines a framework centered on investment sectors, innovative methods, …
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Estimating train passenger load from automated data systems : application to London Underground
… destination while travelling in a high frequency urban rail transportation system. If this proves possible, the resulting information will inform capital and operations planning decisions as well as improve the ability to measure the aspects of passenger experience related to travel time and …
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Contributions to the foundations of a safety case for the use of GNSS in railway environments
The use of GNSS in the railways for passenger information services and selective door opening is already commonplace but the advancement of this increasingly popular navigation technique into safety of life rail applications has been hindered by the unknown level of measurement error caused by the …
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Firms in Integrated Urban Models: Agglomeration Economies and the Dynamics of Employment Size Decisions
Jobs are key determinants of urban phenomena ranging from daily trip patterns to urban structure. Despite their importance, the representation of jobs and firms in integrated urban models is limited. Existing approaches are exceedingly static, often lack theoretical underpinnings, and rarely …
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Towards Regional Rail: Strategies for Service Transformation on the Worcester/Framingham Line
… fare products are needed. In many ways, commuter rail as a service delivery strategy feels like a relic of a past time, as miles of track and a fleet of train sets sit virtually idle for most of the day until peak weekday commute hours. The goal of this research is to explore the potential …
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Development of passenger flow time (PFT) model for light rail transit (LRT) users at KL Sentral Malaysia
… on the alighting and boarding process in urban rail services. Thus, the aim of this research is to develop a predictive model to estimate the PFT through a train door of light rail transit (LRT) at KL Sentral. With this model, the main factors affetcting the PFT at a door and …
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Assessing Journey Time Impacts of Disruptions on London's Piccadilly Line
… and categorization of incidents that occur on a urban rail transport line over the course of 29 days with some degree of disruption; second, the development of a new measure of impacts on passengers resulting from those incidents using automated fare collection (AFC) data; and third, an …
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Disruption management on high frequency lines : measuring the effectiveness of recovery strategies
Incidents in urban rail systems are common. They vary in cause and severity, and can lead to minor or major disruptions on the network. Disruptions affect both the customers and the operating staff. To control and lessen the impact of an incident on the rail network, controllers implement …