Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation:
Systems and Technology
CIVL466 URBAN PUBLIC
TRANSPORTATON: SYSTEMS
AND TECHNOLOGY
Week Two
Prepare for your exams
Study with the several resources on Docsity
Earn points to download
Earn points by helping other students or get them with a premium plan
Guidelines and tips
Prepare for your exams
Study with the several resources on Docsity
Earn points to download
Earn points by helping other students or get them with a premium plan
Urban Public Transportation: Systems and Technology - Week Two, High school final essays of Sociology
A part of the lecture notes for the Civil Engineering course, CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems and Technology, taught by Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt at Eastern Michigan University. The notes cover the development of urban public transportation modes since 1900, focusing on streetcars/tramways, motorbuses, trolleybuses, and high-speed rail transit modes. The document also discusses transit classifications, definitions, and modes, as well as transit system components and operations.
Typology: High school final essays
2021/2022
1 / 49
This page cannot be seen from the preview
Don't miss anything!
Related documents
Partial preview of the text
Download Urban Public Transportation: Systems and Technology - Week Two and more High school final essays Sociology in PDF only on Docsity!
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation:
CIVL466 URBAN PUBLIC
TRANSPORTATON: SYSTEMS
AND TECHNOLOGY
Week Two
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation:
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation:
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation:
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation:
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: STREET TRANSIT DEVELOPMENT SINCE 1900
- Streetcars/Tramways
- Motorbuses
- Carl Benz (1844–1929), of Mannheim in Germany, constructed the first
automobile.
- Another invention that later had a great significance for buses took
place during the 1890s: Rudolf Diesel (1858–1913), also a German
engineer, developed a high-speed compression-ignition engine.
- In the United States, the first city to begin conversion from horse bus to
motorbus operation was New York.
- Trolleybuses
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation:
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation:
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation:
Rapid Transit
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation:
Rapid Transit
Transit Classifications and Definitions
- Classification by Type of Usage
- Private Transport
- For-hire urban passenger transport (paratransit) - Demand responsive - Fixed-route, fixed-schedule
- Common carrier urban passenger transport (transit, mass transit or mass transportation)
- Table 2.1 reading assignment
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation:
Transit Modes
• Rights-of-way
– Category C
• Surface streets with mixed traffic, preferential
treatment for transit
– Category B
• R/W types that are longitudinally physically
separated (curbs, barriers, grade separation, etc.)
– Category A
• fully controlled R/W without grade crossings or any
legal access by other vehicles or persons
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: