Relationships between streetcars and the built environment
By: consultants, Ron Golem and Janet Smith-Heimer
Contributors: Smith-Heimer, Janet; National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board; Transit Cooperative Research Program; United States. Federal Transit Administration; Transit Development Corporation
Series: TCRP synthesis -- 86; TCRP synthesis -- 86.
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780309143097
Subjects: Planning; Street-railroads; Urban transportation; Economic aspects; Traffic engineering; Streetcars; Design and construction
Other titles: Streetcars and the built environment
Description: TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 86: Relationships Between Streetcars and the Built Environment examines selected, built streetcar and trolley systems to trace their evolution, define significant factors, and identify commonalities among levels of success in impacting the built environment.
Notes: "A synthesis of transit practice."

At head of title: Transit Cooperative Research Program.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 28).

Also available online.

Research sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration in cooperation with the Transit Development Corporation TCRP project J-7, topic SH-12
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Introduction; title: Ch. 2. Literature Review; title: Ch. 3. Survey of Streetcar and Trolley System Ch. 4. Case Studies; title: Ch. 5. Conclusions.