A growing interest in making travel by public transportation more attractive for users has resulted in renewed attention to making journeys involving more than one mode, or one carrier, easier on the passenger. While there is considerable experience in western Europe in developing multimodal systems, there is a need to enlarge the information base with results of North American endeavours. This paper sets out to help accomplish this by describing the experience with ten surface multimodal terminals planned or planned and implemented since 1967 in western Canada. Both intercity and regional (metropolitan) examples are included, so that both private sector and government planned facilities could be examined, regional ones tending to be publicly owned. (A)
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