Integrating Passenger Ferry Service with Mass Transit
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
2013
Subject Area
place - north america, mode - ferry, infrastructure - interchange/transfer
Keywords
Case studies, Coordination, Ferries, Literature reviews, Public transit, State of the practice, Surveys, Transit operating agencies
Abstract
The purpose of this synthesis was to document the state of the practice and integration between land- and water-based transit systems and to explore successful aspects of seamless integration. The report assembles and presents information in numerous locations around the United States, supplemented with examples from Canada, Australia, and Bermuda. To accomplish this effort a literature review was undertaken that received limited results. However, a selected survey of 46 respondents out of 57 transit and ferry agencies, as well as agencies and companies in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom, including Bermuda, received an 80% response rate. The respondents represent a geographically representative sample—varying in size and age of system, degree of coordination between ferry and transit, and type of community served. The synthesis summarizes findings from 60 different ferry-to-land-based transit interfaces. Case examples of key factors of land- and water-based integration are offered for Long Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts, TransLink's SeaBus in Vancouver, British Columbia; New York Waterway's Hoboken Terminal; and Washington State Ferries and Kitsap Transit in Bremerton, Washington.
Rights
Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Transportation Research Board, Washington, copyright remains with them.
Recommended Citation
Payne, T., rose, D., & Scher, H. (2013). Integrating Passenger Ferry Service with Mass Transit. Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 102. Published by Transportation Research Board, Washington.
