Urban transport service innovation
By: Transportation Research Board, Commission on Sociotechnical Systems, National Research Council.
Contributors: United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration.; Transportation Research Board.
Series: Special report / Transportation Research Board, National Research Council -- 184
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Urban transportation -- United States -- Congresses.; Urban transportation -- Canada -- Congresses.
Description: This volume amounts to a progress report on paratransit. The papers published here include some that were presented at the Transportation Research Board's Conference on Urban Transport Service Innovations in San Diego, December 5 to 8, 1977, and some that were presented at the Fifty-seventh Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in January 1978. They review both American and Canadian experiences with shared-ride services such as car pools, van pools, shared-ride taxi services, subscription bus services, and dial-a-ride and demand-responsive services for special-need groups.
Notes: "Proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation ... (et al.) ... and conducted by the Transportation Research Board, December 5-8, 1977, in San Diego, California. It also includes agroup of papers presented at the 57th annual meeting of the Board, January 16-20, 1978."

Includes bibliographical references.