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From: chiaraviglio@husc2.UUCP (lucius)
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Rapid Transit Systems (also is this subject suitable for this newsgroup?)
Message-ID: <1031@husc2.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Nov-86 23:23:41 EST
Article-I.D.: husc2.1031
Posted: Mon Nov 17 23:23:41 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Nov-86 08:02:14 EST
Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Ctr., Cambridge, MA
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Keywords: costs of implementation, maintenance, and operation; service quality

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	Has anyone seen a good study on relative costs of various rapid/suburban
transit systems, with details on costs of implementing, maintaining, and
operating the systems (includes energy use and paying employees specific to
that system), and on the quality of the systems?  (This would have to take
some account of the area covered by the systems -- I don't know how many times
bigger the Washington, D. C. metro area is than the Boston metro area, but I
would suspect it is a large factor, which would affect all sorts of things.)
By quality of service I mean such things as connectivity (both between
different routes and express/nonexpress service on the same route, etc.), time
required to go a certain distance, reliability, and cost to the user.
(Such things as cleanliness of the system are technically part of the quality
of service, but are dependant more on how well the transit authorities run
what they implement and on how much the users mess things up than on inherent
features of the system -- although such things as the apparent deliberate
pricing-out of poor people from the Washington Metro do have an effect on this
kind of thing.)

	I am new to this newsgroup, and haven't seen any other on related
topics, so I don't know if rapid/suburban transit systems (by no means all
railroads, or even counted railroads at all by some) is an appropiate topic
for it.  If it is not, please feel free to tell me.

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	-- Lucius Chiaraviglio
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