WIT Press

Alternative Urban Transport Technologies For The Belfast Metropolitan Area In The Period To 2030 AD: The Research Design And Its Implications For Study Recommendations And Policy Outcome

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

18

Pages

9

Published

1995

Size

868 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/UT950141

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

A.W. Smyth, J. Douglas Ferguson & J. Malachy Mc Eldowney

Abstract

The study of Alternative Urban Transport Technologies for the Belfast Metropolitan Area 1991/92 commissioned by the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company Ltd/D.O.E. (N.I.) had three main goals: 1 The development of guidelines for assessing the potential technologies for Belfast based on a review of conditions in other sites. 2 Review of 'candidate' technologies and the development of systems concepts to meet the long term transportation needs of the conciliation. 3 Assessment of the efficacy of the systems concepts including their operational, economic and financial performance and implications for the environ

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