scholarly journals Initial acoustic assessment of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System

1975 ◽  
Vol 58 (S1) ◽  
pp. S126-S126
Author(s):  
Michael A. Porter
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Bay Area

Paper 5: Development of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit System (Bartd)

1966 ◽  
Vol 181 (7) ◽  
pp. 20-31
Author(s):  
S. D. Forsythe ◽  
T. J. Lowe
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay area is facing a mounting problem of handling the ever-increasing flow of traffic. With this traffic rising so rapidly in an area severely constricted by topography it has been concluded that freeway, bridge, and parking improvements alone cannot meet the Bay area's mounting transportation needs. Rapid transit, utilizing only a fraction of the space and with much less cost, would provide far more passenger capacity than automobiles on freeway and as a result a billion dollar rapid transit system has been planned for the Bay area. This paper describes the design and development of the BARTD system at present being undertaken.

Design of Rapid Transit Equipment for the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit System

1966 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl W. Sundberg ◽  
Montgomery Ferar
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Environmental Control ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Passenger Vehicle ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Appearance Design ◽  
System Requirements

Automobile traffic is threatening to overwhelm the cities of the San Francisco Bay Area, and an advanced mass transit system is being built by the Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BARTD) to help alleviate this problem. This article describes the design and development of the passenger vehicle for this system. BARTD system requirements and car design criteria are discussed, and the conceptual design and detailed development of passenger accommodations, environmental control provisions, lighting, ingress/egress, visibility and appearance design featurea are presented. The requirements for and the detailed design of the train attendant's pod are also discussed. A prototype car has been designed with primary emphasis on those human factors considerations that are expected to induce 200,000 commuters to use the system in preference to private automobiles. Public reactions to the prototype vehicle will be employed to refine and improve upon the design prior to its introduction into service in 1971.

Evaluating Interior and Door Configurations of Rail Vehicles by Using Variable Loading Densities

2005 ◽  
Vol 1927 (1) ◽  
pp. 268-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel W. Lau
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Dwell Time ◽  
Time Estimation ◽  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Variable Loading ◽  
Uniform Loading ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Transit Agencies ◽  
Rail Rapid Transit

As many U.S. metropolitan areas expect unprecedented growth in population and travel in the next 20 to 30 years, rail transit agencies are faced with the challenges of replacing their aging fleets and procuring new vehicles to keep up with ridership increases. As funds become increasingly scarce, many operators are exploring ways of increasing car capacity by considering interior configurations (to maximize loading efficiency) and door configurations (to minimize the effect of increased loads on station dwell times). Few studies address the design and evaluation of interior and door configurations as a system. Typically, seating configurations are designed separately from door configurations. Furthermore, interior configuration evaluations or maximum vehicle loading quoted by car manufacturers assume a uniform loading density applied throughout the car. Loading on transit vehicles, however, varies greatly within a car. This affects practical vehicle capacity and its impact controlling dwell time at the busiest door. The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, a heavy rail rapid transit system in California, recently conducted an evaluation of interior and door configurations based on a methodology that used variable loading densities and resulting impact on door loads for dwell time estimation. Variable loading density is more realistic in simulating actual passenger loading experience. This research shows that depending on the interior and door configuration, applying uniform loading density may misrepresent actual car capacity and door loads and thus waste valuable resources or underestimate actual needs.

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