Trends Before the San Diego Trolley: A San Diego Trolley Guideway Implementation Monitoring Study Report

摘要

The San Diego Trolley represents a unique opportunity to study the impact of light rail transit on the modern urban environment, because it is the first light rail system to be built in this country in several decades. Planned, designed and constructed by the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board, the Trolley started operation in the summer of 1981. Unlike other rail transit impact studies which have attempted to measure a broad range of transportation effects, this impact study concentrated on more localized changes in travel characteristics, land use development, and socioeconomic conditions.