Paratransit in the San Francisco Bay Area: Providing Feeder Connections to Rail

Robert Cervero, Thomas Kirk, Douglas Mount and Carma Reed

University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers from University of California Transportation Center

Abstract: The San Francisco Bay Area is blessed with one of the most extensive urban rail networks in the nation -- the 80-mile Bay Area Rapid Transit System, the 72-mile CalTrain commuter rail system, a new light-rail service in Santa Clara County, and streetcars, trams, and cable cars lacing the streets of San Francisco. This extensive, multi-billion dollar network, however, has been unable to reverse mass transit’s continuing decline. A major reason why transit has been losing market share to the private automobile is that fixed guideway systems are ill-suited to a metropolitan area which continues to grow outward, in the form of low-density office parks, big-box retail outlets, and tract subdivisions.

Keywords: Social; and; Behavioral; Sciences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995-03-01
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