ABSTRACT
After reviewing and investigating transit-scheduling components and passenger demand and assignment, this chapter opens with a description of transit service and network and route-design components, subjects that will also be covered in the three following chapters. Service-design and connectivity issues, in the subjects of this chapter, facilitate an understanding of the importance of transit planning in enhancing existing or new transit services. The planning table is the mechanism with which to start changing the prevailing opinion that transit service and problems are tied to each other as in the adage: urban areas with transit facilities are exciting places where something is almost always happening, mostly unsolved.
