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

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  • Cervero, Robert
  • Kirk, Thomas
  • Mount, Douglas
  • Reed, Carma

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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.

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  • Cervero, Robert & Kirk, Thomas & Mount, Douglas & Reed, Carma, 1995. "Paratransit in the San Francisco Bay Area: Providing Feeder Connections to Rail," University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers qt9vp3z4sv, University of California Transportation Center.
    • Handle: RePEc:cdl:uctcwp:qt9vp3z4sv
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    1. Cervero, Robert, 1996. "Commercial Paratransit in the United States: Service Options, Markets, and Performance," University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers qt1cp1t1vh, University of California Transportation Center.

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