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Urban Mass Transit, Private:, Public or common carrier: - Coggle Diagram
Urban Mass Transit
Advantages
High capacity
High energy efficiency
Less pollution
Reduce congestion
Lower costs on users
Urban mass transit systems can be classified
By route type
Cross town
Radial or corridor
Circumferential
Grid
By service
• Residential collection system
• Feeder system
Line-Haul system
Downtown distribution system
into several systems according to route type
or service
Modes Classification by Type
of Usage
Private: : :
Private transportation consists of privately owned vehicles operated by
owners for their own use, usually on publicly provided and operated
streets.
• Private auto is the most common mode, but motorcycle, bicycle, and, of
course, walking also belong in this category.
For-hire:
For-hire urban passenger transportation, commonly designated as
paratransit, is transportation service provided by an operator and
available to all parties who meet the conditions of a contract for
carriage (i.e., pay prescribed fares or rates), but which is adjustable in
various degrees to the individual user’s desires.
• Most paratransit modes do not have fixed routes and schedules.
• Taxi, and dial-a-ride are major modes.
Public or common carrier:
Transit Modes
Right-of-way (ROW) category
System technology
. Type of service
Classification of
Transportation Modes
Urban transportation modes and
operational concepts can be classified
according to several different bases.
Some of the classifications are
interdependent. For example, modes are
often identified with system technology
only, but their technology is strongly
influenced by the characteristics of rights-ofway and operations
Modes Classification by Type of Usage
Public or common carrier:
Public transport, mass transportation, or transit is the common carrier type of urban passenger transport.
• These are transport systems with fixed routes and schedules, available for use by all persons who pay the
established fare.
• The most common representatives are bus, light rail transit, and rapid transit or metro, but there are
several other modes.
• Paratransit modes with routes and schedules that change with the requests of individual users are
referred to as demand-responsive; when the difference is pointed out, transit is described as fixed-route,
fixed- schedule service.
• Urban public transportation, strictly defined, includes both transit and paratransit categories, since both
are available for public use. However, the term public transport is commonly identified with transit only,
and inclusion of paratransit is specifically emphasized.
Private:
Public or common carrier: