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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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History and Role of Public Transportation in Urban Development | |
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Early Development of Cities | |
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Transportation and Locations of Cities | |
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Transportation and City Size | |
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Form and Structure of Cities | |
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The Industrial Revolution, Urbanization, and the Growth of Cities | |
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Beginnings of Public Transportation | |
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Public Transportation before the Nineteenth Century | |
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Horse-Drawn Omnibuses | |
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Horse-Drawn Tramways | |
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Mechanized Street Transit Technologies before 1880 | |
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Invention of Electric Streetcars /Tramways | |
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Beginnings of Electric Streetcars in the United States | |
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Introduction of Electric Tramways in Europe | |
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Street Transit Development since 1900 | |
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Streetcars /Tramways | |
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Motorbuses | |
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Trolleybuses | |
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Development of High-Speed Rail Transit Modes | |
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Suburban Railways/Regional Rail | |
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Electric Interurban Railways | |
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Rapid Transit /Metro | |
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Overview and Conclusions: Transit Development and Cities | |
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Urban Passenger Transport Modes | |
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Transport System Definitions and Classification | |
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Classification by Type of Usage | |
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Transit Modes | |
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Transit System Components | |
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Transit System Operations, Service, and Characteristics | |
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Theory of Urban Passenger Transport Modes | |
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Evolution of a Transportation System in a Model Urban Area | |
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Review of Modal Features | |
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The Family of Transit Modes: Categories and Descriptions | |
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Paratransit | |
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Street Transit Modes | |
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Medium-Capacity Modes: Semirapid Transit | |
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High-Performance Modes: Rapid Transit | |
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Specialized Transit Modes | |
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Review of the Family of Regular Transit Modes | |
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Commuter Transit | |
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Trends in Transit Ridership and in Use of Different Modes | |
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Urban Travel and Transit Ridership | |
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Increasing Diversity of Transit Modes | |
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Vehicle Motion and Performance | |
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Vehicle Motion | |
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Resistance to Motion | |
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Vehicle Resistance | |
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Alignment Resistance | |
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Internal Combustion Engine Propulsion | |
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Characteristic Diagram for ICEs | |
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Speed-Tractive Effort Diagram: TE f(V) | |
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Vehicle Motion Force as a Function of Speed | |
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Electric Propulsion | |
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Wayside Electric Power Supply and Its Distribution to Lines | |
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Propulsion Motors and Their Control | |
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Electronic Motor Control | |
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AC Propulsion Motors and Their Electronic Control | |
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Comparison of Motor Control Types | |
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Other Propulsion Systems | |
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Vehicle Acceleration Force | |
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Comparison of Electric and Diesel Propulsions | |
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Vehicle Acceleration, Braking, and Stopping Distances | |
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Adhesion for Wheel Traction | |
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Acceleration and Braking Forces and Distances | |
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Station-to-Station Travel Analysis | |
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Basic Variables of Vehicle Motion | |
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Regimes of Motion | |
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Travel Time Equations and Diagrams | |
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Sensitivity of Travel Time and Speed to Individual Parameters | |
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Energy Consumption and Efficiency | |
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Structure of Energy Consumption Analysis | |
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Influence of Operating Regimes | |
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Potential Energy Savings through Preprogrammed Driving | |
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Influence of Stop/Station Spacing | |
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Measures of Energy Consumption | |
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Transit System Performance: Capacity, Productivity, Efficiency, and Utilization | |
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Definitions of Quantitative Performance Attributes | |
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Basic Attributes | |
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Transportation Work and Productivity | |
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Transit System Efficiency and Productivity | |
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Consumption and Utilization | |
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Transit Line Capacity | |
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Definitions | |
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Vehicle Capacity | |
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Way Capacity | |
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Basic Elements | |
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Vehicle Control Categories in Transit Operation | |
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Operating Safety Regimes | |
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Impacts of Train Size and Control Characteristics | |
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Application of Equations to Different Modes | |
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Station Capacity | |
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Significance and Definitions | |
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Components and Influencing Factors | |
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Capacity Diagrams and Equations | |
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Measures to Increase Station Capacity | |
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Theoretical and Practical Capacities of Major Transit Modes | |
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Important Considerations in Capacity Computations | |
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