COVER PHOTOS:
Upper Left: William Barclay Parsons at the March 24, 1900
ground breaking for New York City’s first subway line.
Upper Right: Simulation of HBLRTS in downtown Jersey City,
New Jersey. ©1995 4-D Imaging
Middle Left: LA Metro tunnel under construction. ©1983
David Sailors
Middle Right: Newark International Airport Automated People
Mover.
Lower Left: BART trains. PB is a member of the joint venture
providing general engineering consultant services for the
BART transit system. ©1992 David Sailors
Lower Right: MARTA station. PB is a member of PB/T the joint
venture responsible for planning, design and development of
the MARTA transit system. |
Introduction (Lammie)
Glossary
Overview (Jakelski,
Harrison, Murthy, Smelley, Matina)
Historical Perspective:
PB’s Changing
Role in Transit (Salter)
PB’s First
Transit Project (Salter)
Special Feature Section
Transit Planning
Using GIS to Evaluate
High Speed Rail Corridors (Burckardt, Harrison)
California: Streamlining
Cost of High Speed Rail Study (Field, Brown)
Strategic Planning
Tools: Asset Management (Hoffman)
California: CADD
Solutions for Planning Studies (Boone, Dawson, Parrino,
Castoro)
Indonesia: “Model
of Models” for Mass Rapid Transit (McBrayer)
Oregon: Envisioning
the South/North Transit Corridor (Brannan, Barden, Leu)
California:
Long Range Transit Plan for Western Riverside County (Jenkins)
New Jersey: Coordinating
LRV Movements Under Traffic Signal Control for Downtown Area
(Abebe, Gordon, Kamal, Conte)
New York: Pedestrian
Planning at Transit Stations with NFPA 130 (Schachenmayr)
Florida: Using
Macros to Automate Analysis of Transit Ridecheck Information
(Miller, Rosenberger, Whitney)
Colorado:
Upgrading the Railroad Test Track (Chamberlain,
Briggs)
Design Innovation
ADA Compliance:
Commuter Rail Stations on Active Freight Lines (Carroll)
New Jersey:
High-Level Platform Retractable Edge (Swindlehurst)
Cairo: Mathcad Used
to Check Train Clearance at a Curved Platform (Triplett,
Winfieldale)
Atlanta: Traffic
Circuit With a Memory (Rosenthal)
Computerized Signal
System Analysis (Gabriel)
Atlanta: Continuous
Contact Rail Transitions Through Crossovers (Rose)
Atlanta: Do You Hear
a Train Coming? First You See the Alert Lights! (Leslie)
Design Approaches
New Jersey: Preparing
Drawings for a DBOM Contract (Berliner, Chidananda)
Designing New
Catenary Systems Under Today’s Innovative Financing Options
(Addison)
Overhead Contact
System Modeling Program (Gillespie)
Philadelphia:
Market Street El Engineering Analysis And Fatigue Evaluation
(Veksler)
Miami: Multiphase
Computer Simulation— A New Approach (Atala)
Construction
Atlanta: Floating
Slab Installation (Walker)
Philadelphia:
Low-Restraint Track—A Proven Alternative (Allen,
Carrier)
Philadelphia: Rehabilitation
of Rail Bridge After Years of Nonuse (Veksler)
Developing a Light
Rail Capital Cost Database (Chambers)
Confucius Was Right
(Ramsay)
In-House Document
and Drawing Control Systems (Spadafora)
Start-up, Operations and Maintenance
Start-up: The
Hand Off to the Owner/Operator (Childrey)
San Francisco:
Remote ATO Terminals Used to Test Train Controls (Fullington)
New Jersey: Automated
People Mover at Newark International Airport (Olson)
Philadelphia:
Linking Fire Risk Assessment With Emergency Preparedness (Atala)
Atlanta: Status
of MARTA North Line Extension (Childrey, Puri, Carty)
Oil Additives:
A Resource Waiting to be Tapped (Spadafora)
Points of View
The New Transit Systems
of Great Britain (Grava)
Malaysia: The Globalization
of Kuala Lumpur’s Express Rail Link Project (Mayes)
Increasing
Access to Suburban Employment Centers (Rosenberger,
Brickell)
The Renaissance of
Rail (Wulkan)
A Work for Our Times
(Yavorsky, Secker)
Seismic Lifeline
of Los Angeles (Murthy, Yavorsky)
PB’s Longest Running
Transit System Project (Salter)
In Future Issues
Fall ‘96: Slurry Wall Techniques
Winter ‘96/97: New Computer Tools. Deadline: July 1.
Spring ‘97: Water Facilities and Environmental Projects.
Deadline: August 31.
Summer ‘97: Operations and Maintenance Services. Deadline:
November 10.
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