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Public Transportation: On the Move, co-sponsored by the American Public Transportation Association, features the design of common areas and facilities in the transportation genre. Through richly detailed, superbly printed color photographs, drawings and descriptive text, this 230-page book portrays the renaissance underway in public transportation and profiles leading architects, urban planners, transportation designers and engineers. The book illustrates the myriad ways in which they have solved some of todays most complex public transportation challenges. Depicted are their latest and most exciting projects and state-of-the-art vehicles. These include new bus and rail services; underground and surface rapid transit systems; transportation planning; streets, highways, parking and traffic systems; intermodal facilities; subway, train and bus stations; rail vehicles and buses; and the entire and scape of todays successful transportation network. You can explore bus rapid transit projects such as the award-winning San Fernando Valley East-West Bus Rapid Transitway, a 13-mile "busway within a greenway"; Salt Lake Citys University and Medical Center Light Rail Transit Line, built in record time for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games; environmentally sensitive station designs for the Central Phoenix/East Valley Light Rail Transit system; New York Citys $17 billion Second Avenue Subway line now in planning; and the Portland Streetcar, which has spurred nearly $1 billion in new investment along its length since its 2001 opening. Vehicle designs include advanced materials commuter buses built to use lower-power, lower-emission engines without sacrificing performance and high-speed rail vehicles that set new standards for comfort, safety, speed and performance. must reading for transportation planners/administrators and government/community/business leaders learn insights into successfully reducing impediments to movement a sourcebook of novel ideas for public transportation facilities 230 pages 9" x 12" 500 color images hardbound 1-58471-037-3