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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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