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High-speed mass transportation, a new concept : an exploratory study by members of the faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic…

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K-2 the objectives can be determined. The reason for this is that the strategy of the cost analysis is to minimize the cost…
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of passengers per hour would be 6000. The initial cost studies will begin with this objective. The second step of the…
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K-4 K-3. COST OF 6000 PASSENGER PER HOUR SYSTEM The initial costs to be estimated in this section are for systems which…
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K-5 total cost for the initial system does not necessarily imply that the minimum cost for this particular sys- tem has been…
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K-6 and also to revenues. The reason for the discount rate is that in comparing economic alternatives, it is the future…
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used for rate making purpose in railroads, but below the 10.5 per cent suggested for airlines by the Civilian Aeronautics…
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K-8 By allowing the output to vary in the 6000 passenger per hour system, the characteristics of short-run costs for this…
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K-9 ably less than 6000 passengers per hour, the diameter I of the tubes could be smaller resulting in vehicles with…
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K-lO The strategy of the analysis in this section would be again to construct models which are based on the initial models…
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K-ll graphical, of this particular corridor. After the costs have been estimated for the Boston-Washington corridor, then…
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K-12 terminal will require facilities which were not present in the previous models. Thus, the effects of switching…
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K-13 However, the cost estimates are dated and it will be necessary to bring the cost data up-to-date for the existing modes…
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K-14 K-7. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS To establish the cost feasibility of the proposed high speed ground tube mode, the…
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K-15 REFERENCES 1. Caves, Richard E. Air Transport and Its Regulators, Harvard University Press, 1962. 2. Hitch, Charles J…
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Total Figure 1. Hypothetical Relationship Among Short-run and Long-run Costs for 150 Miles Distance Costs $ 6000 System C…
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SECTION L REVENUE by Earl S. Paul
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L-l L. REVENUE (Paul) L-l . ABSTRACT This section deals with the problem of revenue estima- tion for the system. Revenue…
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L-2 way the same services for the consumer. Cyclical, seasonal even daily fluctuations in demand will af- fect the system…
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L-3 ferent modes are different, then the relative rate of growth of demand for each mode would be different. Again, the…
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L-4 To facilitate the analysis, the demand for transport services will be limited to interurban passenger services in high…
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formulated to act as check on the results from more limited studies and to give insights into the de- mand structure. At the…
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L-6 and the use of time series data present problems of multicollinearity, autocorrelation, etc. One study by the Systems…
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------------------------------------------------------- If the data and the resources are not available for a complete demand…
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L-8 elapsed time the utility of the consumer would be higher the faster the speed (Ref. 3). If a standard unit of elapsed…
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system, in this case the bus. If such a measure of services could be meaningfully developed, the price effects and income…
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