Civil Engineering Professor Panos D. Prevedouros, PhD discusses his opinions on infrastructure issues with emphasis on the City and County of Honolulu.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Car or Train? The Choice is Yours.
A picture is worth 1,000 words.
Two pictures are worth 2,000 words.
Picture 1: A 2013 new mid-size car.
Picture 2: Typical rush hour train commute.
Any questions?
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Monthly cost of a 2013 Honda Accord: $390/month for 4 years (Assuming $18,000 financed at 2% APR)
Monthly fuel cost of aforementioned car for commuting: $55 (Assuming $4/gallon for gas, 20 mile round-trip commute [roughly Downtown to Pearl City], 20 working days per month, and 29 MPG per fueleconomy.gov)
Monthly cost of parking: $100 (unreserved parking at Kukui Plaza per http://www.hawaiibusiness.com/Hawaii-Business/October-2010/Downtown-Honolulu-Parking-Rates-2010/)
Total monthly cost of driving to work (not including insurance): $545
Current price of a monthly TheBus pass: $60
Current price of a monthly MBTA (Boston) subway pass: $70 Current price of a monthly San Francisco Muni monthly pass: $74 Current price of a monthly CTA (Chicago) pass: $86 Current price of a monthly TriMet (Portland, OR) pass: $100 Current price of a monthly New York City MTA pass: $104 Current price of a monthly TransLink (Vancouver, BC) pass: ~$155 (C$151)
Driving in traffic sounds nice if that's something I can afford.
Thank you "anonymous." If all decisions in your life are made on the basis of costs, with no regard for benefits, then you probably need to move to Appalachia in the US, or Papua New Guinea for rock bottom estimates.
Panos D. Prevedouros, Ph.D. is a professor of traffic and transportation engineering at the Department of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Hawaii-Manoa since 1990.
Panos graduated from the Aristotle Univ. of Greece in 1984, and with Masters and PhD degrees in 1990 from Northwestern Univ. (Evanston, IL), a leading academic institution in engineering and transportation.
He chairs the Freeway Simulation Subcommittee of the Transportation Research Board. He was president of the Hawaii Highway Users Alliance from 2006 to 2008.
Panos co-authored a Transportation Engineering textbook and over 100 reports and technical papers. He received the 2005 Van Wagoner Award of the Institute of Transportation Engineers.
He co-organized the 1st International Symposium on Freeway Operations (ISFO) in Athens, Greece, and the 2nd ISFO in Honolulu in June 2009.
Dr. Prevedouros served in the Transit Advisory Task Force in 2006 and in the Technology Selection Expert Panel in 2008 of the City Council of Honolulu.
He run for mayor of Honolulu in the 2008 elections and finished 3rd in the primary elections with 18% of the vote from a field of nine candidates.
2 comments:
Monthly cost of a 2013 Honda Accord: $390/month for 4 years (Assuming $18,000 financed at 2% APR)
Monthly fuel cost of aforementioned car for commuting: $55 (Assuming $4/gallon for gas, 20 mile round-trip commute [roughly Downtown to Pearl City], 20 working days per month, and 29 MPG per fueleconomy.gov)
Monthly cost of parking: $100 (unreserved parking at Kukui Plaza per http://www.hawaiibusiness.com/Hawaii-Business/October-2010/Downtown-Honolulu-Parking-Rates-2010/)
Total monthly cost of driving to work (not including insurance): $545
Current price of a monthly TheBus pass: $60
Current price of a monthly MBTA (Boston) subway pass: $70
Current price of a monthly San Francisco Muni monthly pass: $74
Current price of a monthly CTA (Chicago) pass: $86
Current price of a monthly TriMet (Portland, OR) pass: $100
Current price of a monthly New York City MTA pass: $104
Current price of a monthly TransLink (Vancouver, BC) pass: ~$155 (C$151)
Driving in traffic sounds nice if that's something I can afford.
Thank you "anonymous." If all decisions in your life are made on the basis of costs, with no regard for benefits, then you probably need to move to Appalachia in the US, or Papua New Guinea for rock bottom estimates.
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