IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/trachp/978-1-4419-9804-0_4.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Skyways in Minneapolis

In: Evolving Transportation Networks

Author

Listed:
  • Feng Xie

    (Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments)

  • David M. Levinson

    (University of Minnesota)

Abstract

Often enclosed and climate controlled, skyways link second level corridors across buildings, connecting various activity hubs such as shops and offices (Robertson, 1994; Byers, 1998). Such links allow for more efficient movement of pedestrians while protecting them from weather and the hazards of vehicular traffic below. Among North American cities that have substantial skyway systems, Minneapolis witnessed the city’s first skyway link in 1962 as a modest effort to provide greater access to the central business district (CBD) (Byers, 1998). Over the next four decades, a system of skyway links has emerged, resulting in a network that connected over 70 continuous blocks in downtown Minneapolis. Corbett et al. (2009) comprehensively recapitulates the evolutionary history of the Minneapolis skyway system.

Suggested Citation

  • Feng Xie & David M. Levinson, 2011. "Skyways in Minneapolis," Transportation Research, Economics and Policy, in: Evolving Transportation Networks, chapter 0, pages 33-43, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:trachp:978-1-4419-9804-0_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-9804-0_4
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:trachp:978-1-4419-9804-0_4. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.