Evaluation of new urban transportation systems. Paper presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board HRB, Washington, D.C., January 1971.

The large number of new urban transport systems can usefully be evaluated from an economic standpoint of capital and operating costs per unit traffic flow. A number of systems in a typical urban situation with a peak flow in either direction of 10.000 passengers per hour are considered. By using a number of cost equations, basic operating and capital costs have been developed for each type of system.