Transit and cities grow together. As cities work to become more
compact, sustainable, and healthy, their work is paying dividends:
in 2014, Americans took 10.8 billion trips on public transit, the
highest since the dawn of the highway era. But most of these trips
are on streets that were designed to move private cars, with
transit as an afterthought. The NACTO Transit Street Design Guide
places transit where it belongs, at the heart of street design. The
guide shows how streets of every size can be redesigned to create
great transit streets, supporting great neighbourhoods and
downtowns. The Transit Street Design Guide is a well-illustrated,
detailed introduction to designing streets for high-quality
transit, from local buses to BRT, from streetcars to light rail.
Drawing on the expertise of a peer network and case studies from
across North America, the guide provides a much-needed link between
transit planning, transportation engineering, and street design.
The Transit Street Design Guide presents a new set of core
principles, street typologies, and design strategies that shift the
paradigm for streets, from merely accommodating service to actively
prioritizing great transit. The book expands on the transit
information in the acclaimed Urban Street Design Guide, with
sections on comprehensive transit street design, lane design and
materials, stations and stops, intersection strategies, and city
transit networks. It also details performance measures and outlines
how to make the case for great transit street design in cities. The
guide is built on simple mathematics: allocating scarce space to
transit instead of private automobiles greatly expands the number
of people a street can move. Street design and decisions made by
cities, from how to time signals to where bus stops are placed, can
dramatically change how transit works and how people use it. The
Transit Street Design Guide is a vital resource for every
transportation planner, public transport operations planner, and
city traffic engineer working on making streets that move more
people more efficiently and affordably.
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