San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) has been providing rapid transit in safe, affordable, equitable, and environmentally-friendly ways for over 40 years. The latest BART train extension from Antioch to Pittsburg, California (known as the eBART project) used state-of-the-art Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) technology to bring an environmentally-friendly mass transit commuting alternative to a rapidly developing and increasingly congested region. This project brought rail service to an under-served community as quickly as possible—and at half the cost of BART’s conventional train. Learn how BART’s first venture with DMU technology on the highly complex eBART project is a model for a cost-effective method of implementing a rail transit extension that successfully balances the public investment with the ridership generated. Hear about the challenges, solutions and immense success of the eBART project with a ridership more than double the predicted numbers.

Learning Objectives:

_Identify the components of DMU technology; a state-of-the art, environmentally-friendly, cost-effective transit solution. 

_Recommend or make informed decisions about sustainable, equitable mass transit alternatives.

_Recognize the potential challenges, solutions and opportunities with a complex, multi-agency transportation project.

Contributor/Source

Andy Kleiber ;Dan Elshire ;Maurice (Rick) Rattray ;Ronald Wong

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