Integrating passenger ferry service with mass transit

Resource Information

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Label

Integrating passenger ferry service with mass transit

Statement of responsibility

Tim Payne, Danielle Rose, and Hazel Scher

Creator

• Payne, Tim

Contributor

• National Research Council (U.S.), Transportation Research Board
• United States, Federal Transit Administration
• Scher, Hazel
• Transit Cooperative Research Program
• Rose, Danielle
• Transit Development Corporation

Subject

• Ferries
• Public transit
• Ferry service
• Local transit
• Marine transit

Language

eng

Summary

"The purpose of this synthesis was to document the state of the practice of integration between land- and water-based transit systems and to explore successful aspects of seamless integration. The report assembles and presents information in numerous locations around the United States, supplemented with examples from Canada, Australia, and Bermuda. To accomplish this effort a literature review was undertaken that received limited results. However, a selected survey of 46 respondents out of 57 transit and ferry agencies, as well as agencies and companies in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom, including Bermuda, received an 80% response rate. The respondents represent a geographically representative sample--varying in size and age of system, degree of coordination between ferry and transit, and type of community served. The synthesis summarizes findings from 60 different ferry-to-land-based transit interfaces. Case examples of key factors of land- and water-based integration are offered for Long Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts; TransLink's SeaBus in Vancouver, British Columbia; New York Waterway's Hoboken Terminal; and Washington State Ferries and Kitsap Transit in Bremerton, Washington. Tim Payne, Danielle Rose, and Hazel Scher, Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, Inc., Seattle, Washington, collected and synthesized the information and wrote the report, under the guidance of a panel of experts in the subject area. The members of the topic panel are acknowledged on the preceding page. This synthesis is an immediately useful document that records the practices that were acceptable within the limitations of the knowledge available at the time of its preparation. As progress in research and practice continues, new knowledge will be added to that now at hand"--Preface

Member of

• TCRP synthesis, 102

Cataloging source

CUY

Funding information

Research sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration in cooperation with the Transit Development Corporation

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• forms

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography
• technical reports

Series statement

TCRP synthesis,

Series volume

102