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Title	The state of public transportation in Houston
Record ID	23723
Personal Name Creator	MacLennan, Robert G.
Corporate Contributor	Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas
Publisher	Joint Program Office for Intelligent Transportation Systems
Publication Date	19941214
Abstract	This full text of a speech delivered at a luncheon in Harris County,Texas on December 14, 1994, gives a status report on METRO and how Houstons key transportation providers plan to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century. Many improvements have been made in the short 15 years since METRO began. It has grown to a first-class transportation system built to evolve and keep up with the needs of Houstons citizens. Houston has a mass transit agency, BUT also is a major builder of high occupancy vehicle lanes and streets; and is an innovator in mobility technology and operations and alternative fuels. Houston's public transportation is unique in the transit industry with this broad transportation mission. The program will move into the next century with METROs Community Transportation Plan-a total package of services including buses and bus facilities, HOV lanes, street and other infrastructure improvements and high technology regional traffic management. Houston is already building the plan to carry into the year 2010, and are now in planning for a design year of 2020.
TRT Terms	Transportation planning ; Regional planning ; Regional transportation ; Long range planning ; Intelligent transportation systems ; Public transit ; High occupancy vehicle lanes ; Bus transit ; Rail transit ; Lectures
General Subjects	HOV lanes; METRO; Texas
Classification	NTL - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION; NTL - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION - Transit Planning and Policy; NTL - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION - Bus Transportation; NTL - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION - Rail Transit; NTL - INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS - INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; NTL - PLANNING AND POLICY - PLANNING AND POLICY; NTL - PLANNING AND POLICY - Plans and Policy Statements
Geographical Coverage	Texas
Resource type	Research Paper
URL	http://www.itsdocs.fhwa.dot.gov//JPODOCS/SPEECH/22T01!.PDF
Format	PDF
Language:	English
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