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    How intermediate capacity modes provide accessibility and resilience in metropolitan transit networks: Insights from a global study of 19 cities by Scheurer, Jan

    Published 2016
    “…In a comparison of Munich, Germany, where a full spectrum of public transport modes is present, and Hamburg, Germany, where there is a performance gap between heavy rail and buses, accessibility outcomes are discussed. Alongside "alternative history" scenarios concerning the hypothetical retention of trams in Hamburg and full closure of the system in Munich, it is shown that the absence of an intermediate mode in Hamburg’s actual network has a significant detrimental effect on the resilience of the public transport system compared to its Bavarian counterpart as well as to other international cities.…”
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