{"id":157,"date":"2020-06-20T14:09:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T14:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iet.solutions\/?page_id=157"},"modified":"2020-09-20T14:41:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T14:41:02","slug":"rtc-washoe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iet.solutions\/en\/transit\/rtc-washoe\/","title":{"rendered":"RTC-Washoe"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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While it is fortunate not to be encumbered with traditional fixed-route mass transit, lower-cost and more nimble technologies evolving the Morgantown PRT demand-responsive modality into the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century warrant major investment to accommodate peak hour trips and guide future growth.\u00a0 Vehicle-Miles-Traveled in this area are already out-of-proportion to the level of economic activity.\u00a0 As the region matures into a medium-sized metropolis, it will confront the logistical impossibility and technical infeasibility of continuing massive highway expansion for single-occupant car commuters.<\/p>

In relation to need to reduce VMT, spending over $1 billion and creating years of traffic delays and negative impacts to adjacent communities to further widen I-80 and reconfigure the \u201cSpaghetti\u201d junction of I-80\/US-395 produces diminishing marginal returns in terms of long-term mobility.\u00a0 Improvements to the trunk freeways should be limited to auxiliary lanes and reconfigured interchanges, such as the addition of a northbound-Vista-to-westbound-80 loop in the same manner as was recently completed at Sparks Blvd.\/I-80.\u00a0 Relying strictly on current funding sources to the exclusion of tolls leaves our region without an essential tool for matching the incremental cost of additional lane-miles to the benefits received by peak hour commuters.<\/p>

The Pyramid route would be the northerly extension of a network with its core a \u201cbox\u201d:<\/p>

NE corner \u2013 John Ascuaga Nugget \/ Victorian Square<\/p>

NW corner \u2013 UNR \/ Downtown Reno<\/p>

SW corner \u2013 Atlantis \/ Convention Center<\/p>

SE corner \u2013 Reno-Tahoe Int\u2019l. Airport<\/p>

Illustrated via this link: https:\/\/iet.solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/RTC-2035_WJS-variant_Transitway.jpg<\/a> , an easterly extension would run to the Legends and southerly extension to Meadowood Mall.\u00a0 Emerging technologies with acronyms \u2018PRT\u2019 (Personal Rapid Transit), \u2018GRT\u2019 (Group Rapid Transit), and \u2018ULRT\u2019 (Ultra-Light Rail Transit) cost roughly $35 million per mile exclusive of stations.\u00a0 Stations for offline loading can be much more conveniently located for passenger egress without degrading network performance than conventional system-oriented technologies.\u00a0 ULRT simulated on Portland\u2019s MAX light rail network more than tripled average speeds from 16 to 51 mph while running on the same gauge rails as the MAX trains.\u00a0 Next generation PRT is being implemented by Ultra:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.ultraglobalprt.com\/<\/a>\u00a0 at Heathrow Airport and Amritsar, India.<\/p>

Operating costs for PRT\/GRT\/ULRT are only a fraction of conventional transit because of lower labor and energy costs.\u00a0 Patronage of demand-responsive, direct-to-destination transit service with shorter waiting times and fewer intermediate stops should enable farebox revenues to cover all operating expenses and contribute something to capital costs.\u00a0 Transit works best with high density, and the housing collapse affords an opportunity for Reno and Sparks to rethink low density sprawl.\u00a0 Instead of filling out every square mile with single family homes and low-rise apartments, why not upzone special assessment districts around logical places for stations.\u00a0 Vacant land east of Pyramid between Los Altos and Disc Drive is an ideal candidate for high rise residential with its access to Sparks Galleria + Kohl\u2019s\/Walmart complex across the street.\u00a0 Assessment districts, identified by light blue coloration on the regional and area graphics, capture the increased property valuations resulting from greatly enhanced accessibility afforded by the transit stations to defray cost of the infrastructure.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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RTC-Washoe Information about route While it is fortunate not to be encumbered with traditional fixed-route mass transit, lower-cost and more nimble technologies evolving the Morgantown PRT demand-responsive modality into the 21st\u00a0century warrant major investment to accommodate peak hour trips and guide future growth.\u00a0 Vehicle-Miles-Traveled in this area are already out-of-proportion to the level of economic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":48,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-157","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iet.solutions\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iet.solutions\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iet.solutions\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iet.solutions\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iet.solutions\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iet.solutions\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/iet.solutions\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157\/revisions\/371"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iet.solutions\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iet.solutions\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}