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Local transit

Here are entered works on the various modes of local public transportation.

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Transportation

• Local transit -- Accounting
• Local transit -- Congresses
• Local transit -- England
• Local transit -- Finance
• Local transit -- Illinois
• Local transit -- Law and legislation
• Local transit -- Massachusetts
• Local transit -- New York (State)
• Local transit -- New York Metropolitan Area
• Local transit -- Periodicals
• Local transit -- Public opinion
• Local transit -- Research
• Local transit -- Ridership
• Local transit -- United States
• Bus rapid transit
• Personal rapid transit
• Street-railroads
• Subways
• Taxicabs

• City transit
• Mass transit
• Municipal transit
• Public transit
• Rapid transit
• Transit systems
• Urban transit

• Impact of Advanced Group Rapid Transit Technology (1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? Understanding the Effects of Smarter Growth on Communities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019), by Karen Chapple and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Fully Allocated Cost Analysis Guidelines for Public Transit Providers (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Urban Mass Transportation Administration, 1987), by Price Waterhouse Office of Government Services (page images at HathiTrust)

• Proceedings of Workshop on Methodology for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Transit Crime Reduction Measures in Automated Guideway Transit Systems (1977), ed. by Walter Hawkins and E. Donald Sussman
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Handling London's Underground Traffic (London: London's Underground, 1928), by John Pattinson Thomas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Handling London's Underground Traffic (London: London's Underground, 1928), by John Pattinson Thomas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (partial serial archives)

• The Automobile and Urban Transit: The Formation of Public Policy in Chicago, 1900-1930 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, c1983), by Paul F. Barrett (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)

• An Economic Analysis of Taxicab Regulation (FTC Bureau of Economics staff report, 1984), by Mark W. Frankena and Paul A. Pautler (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Economic Analysis of Taxicab Regulation (FTC Bureau of Economics staff report, 1984), by Mark W. Frankena and Paul A. Pautler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Boston Under Snow: Resilience Lessons for the Nation (Boston: Northeastern University, 2017), by Stephen E. Flynn (multiple formats at Northeastern)

• Vibration Level Data: Brighton-New York City Transit Authority (final report prepared for the US Dept. of Transportation, UMTA-MA-0099-81-2; 1981), by Edward J. Rickley and Norman E. Rice (page images at HathiTrust)

• The New York Subway: Its Construction and Equipment (New York: McGraw Pub. Co., c1904), by Interborough Rapid Transit Company (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The New York Subway: Its Construction and Equipment (based on the 1904 edition, with additional images), by Interborough Rapid Transit Company (illustrated HTML at nywcubway.org)

• A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), by Brian J. Cudahy (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• How We Got to Coney Island: The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County (New York: Fordham University Press, 2002), by Brian J. Cudahy (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Active Travel Studies (full serial archives)

• The Street Railway Journal (full serial archives)

• Zeitschrift für das Gesamte Local- und Strassenbahn-Wesen (in German; full run was from 1882-1905; these volumes are US access only) (partial serial archives)

• Millennials and Mobility: Understanding the Millennial Mindset and New Opportunities for Transit Providers (with survey instrument and data sets; 2013), by Neela Sakaria and Natalie Stehfest (PDF and Excel diles at trb.org)

• Millennials and Mobility: Understanding the Millennial Mindset and New Opportunities for Transit Providers (with survey instrument and data sets; 2013), by Neela Sakaria and Natalie Stehfest (PDF and Excel diles at trb.org)

• Millennials and Mobility: Understanding the Millennial Mindset and New Opportunities for Transit Providers (with survey instrument and data sets; 2013), by Neela Sakaria and Natalie Stehfest (PDF and Excel diles at trb.org)

• Energy, the Economy, and Mass Transit (1975), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• An Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit (12 volumes; 1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • Volume 1 (Summary): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 2 (Atlanta Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 3 (Boston Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 4 (Chicago Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 5 (Denver Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 6 (Los Angeles Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 7 (Minneapolis-St. Paul Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 8 (San Francisco Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 9 (Seattle Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 10 (Washington, DC Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 11 (Technical Report): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 12 (Bibliography): PDF files at Princeton

• The Truth About "American Ground Transport": A Reply by General Motors (1974), by General Motors Corporation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Trolley Through the Countryside (Denver: Sage Books, 1963), by Allison Chandler (page images at HathiTrust)

• The San Pablo Rapid BRT Project Evaluation (final report; Washington: Federal Transit Administration, 2006), by Cheryl Thole and Alasdair Cain
  • PDF at nbrti.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The San Pablo Rapid BRT Project Evaluation (final report; Washington: Federal Transit Administration, 2006), by Cheryl Thole and Alasdair Cain
  • PDF at nbrti.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Automated Guideway Transit: An Assessment of PRT and Other New Systems (1975), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Impact of Advanced Group Rapid Transit Technology (1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Proceedings of Workshop on Methodology for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Transit Crime Reduction Measures in Automated Guideway Transit Systems (1977), ed. by Walter Hawkins and E. Donald Sussman
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• National Car Builder (partial serial archives)

• Fires in Mass Transit Vehicles: Report of the Committee on Toxicity Hazards of Materials Used in Transit Vehicles, by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• From Slavery to Civil Rights: On the Streetcars of New Orleans 1830s-Present (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, c2020), by Hilary McLaughlin-Stonham (PDF at OAPEN)

• Automatic Train Control in Rail Rapid Transit (1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• BART-San Francisco International Airport Extension, Final Environmental Impact Report/Final Environmental Impact Statement: Executive Summary (1996), by United States Federal Transit Administration, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (Calif.), and San Mateo County Transit District (Calif.), contrib. by United States Army Corps of Engineers, United States Federal Highway Administration, and United States Federal Aviation Administration (multiple formats at archive.org)

• BART-San Francisco International Airport Extension, Final Environmental Impact Report/Final Environmental Impact Statement: Executive Summary (1996), by United States Federal Transit Administration, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (Calif.), and San Mateo County Transit District (Calif.), contrib. by United States Army Corps of Engineers, United States Federal Highway Administration, and United States Federal Aviation Administration (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 253 (electronic edition), by Geoff Ryman (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• An Economic Analysis of Taxicab Regulation (FTC Bureau of Economics staff report, 1984), by Mark W. Frankena and Paul A. Pautler (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Studies in the Economics of Transportation (1956), by Martin J. Beckmann, C. B. McGuire, and Christopher B. Winsten (PDF at Yale)
• Roadtown (New York: Roadtown Press, c1910), by Edgar Chambless
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Great American Industries (4 volumes; Chicago: A. Flanagan, c1896-1914), by W. F. Rocheleau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Arctic Economics in the 21st Century: The Benefits and Costs of Cold (report of CSIS Europe program, 2013), by Heather A. Conley, contrib. by David L. Pumphrey, Terence M. Toland, and Mihaela David (PDF with commentary at csis.org)

• Ferrocarril de Cochabamba al Chimoré: Propuesta Presentada al Suprema Govierno por Simón I. Patiño; Artículos de Comentario y Propaganda del Diario "El Ferrocarril"; Juicios Sobre la Conveniencia de Comunicar Bolivia con el Atlántico (in Spanish; Cochabamba: El Ferrocarril, 1911), by Simón Iturri Patiño
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Essays in Canadian Surface Transportation (1995), ed. by K. Filip Palda (HTML at Fraser Institute)
• The Dominion of Canada (Toronto: L. Stebbins, 1869), by Henry Youle Hind (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Energy and Equity, by Ivan Illich (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Spatial Transportation Modeling (originally publised as Scientific Geography #5; c1985), by Christian Werner (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)

• Western Montana (1913), by Western Montana Association of Commercial Clubs (Javascript-dependent page images at umt.edu)

• The Street Railway Journal (full serial archives)

• Red River Carts Trek Historic Pembina Trail (second printing; Warren, MN: W. Sheaf, ca. 1958), by E. Neil Mattson (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.