Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Central Link Light Rail Transit Project, Seattle, Tukwila and Seatac
Author: East Link Light Rail Transit Project, Seattle
Author: Central Link Light Rail Transit Project, Seattle, Tukwila and Seatac
Author: Track Design Handbook for Light Rail Transit
Author: Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 0309258243
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 695
Book Description
TCRP report 155 provides guidelines and descriptions for the design of various common types of light rail transit (LRT) track. The track structure types include ballasted track, direct fixation ("ballastless") track, and embedded track. The report considers the characteristics and interfaces of vehicle wheels and rail, tracks and wheel gauges, rail sections, alignments, speeds, and track moduli. The report includes chapters on vehicles, alignment, track structures, track components, special track work, aerial structures/bridges, corrosion control, noise and vibration, signals, traction power, and the integration of LRT track into urban streets.
Central Corridor Light Rail Transit Project
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Central Florida Light Rail Transit System Transportation Improvement to the North/South Corridor Project
Author: Sacramento Light Rail Transit Project
Author: Southwest Corridor Light Rail Transit Project, Arapahoe County, Denver County, Jefferson County
Author: Third Street Light Rail Project, Transportation Improvements, San Francisco
Author: Back on Track
Author: Bob WodnikPublisher:
ISBN: 9780874223699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Observing its busy stations today, it is difficult to imagine how close Sound Transit came to folding. By 1996 much of Puget Sound was choking on congestion, so it was a joyous day for many when voters in three counties approved a ten-year, $3.9 billion mass transit plan. But the agency's light rail estimates came in a billion dollars over budget and extended the project three years. A torrent of angry opposition followed. One by one, administrators resigned. Then Joni Earl stepped in. The new executive director rallied team members, secured a crucial $500 million federal grant, publicly confronted critics, and presented a realistic revised budget. She and her team navigated lawsuits, complex demands made by impacted locations, and expanding expectations of outlying communities. Earl, with support from Link executive director Ahmad Fazel and Seattle mayor Greg Nickels, delivered Sound Transit's promised light rail system in July 2009. A resounding success, its trains and buses annu
