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The programme takes the student through a structured argument to examine whether or not the BART system was the right answer to the San Francisco Bay Area's transport problems.
The programme takes the student through a structured argument to examine whether or not the BART system was the right answer to the San Francisco Bay Area's transport problems.
| Module code and title: | TD342, Systems performance: human factors and systems failures |
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| Item code: | TD342; 16 |
| First transmission date: | 10-10-1976 |
| Published: | 1976 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:30 |
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| Producer: | Andrew Millington |
| Contributors: | Harre Demoro; Bill Hine; Wolf Homburger; John Martin; Henry Bain; Richard Clarke; Willard Wattenburg |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Bart objectives; Bay Area San Francisco; Decision process; Pollution; Transport congestion |
| Footage description: | John Martin introduces the programme, Harre Demoro (Oakland Tribune journalist) gives his personal view on how the Bay Area should develop. Being broadly in favour of BART, he explains how the BART system helps to promote an order which will encourage the area to develop in this way. Some aerial shots of the Bay Area and of a BART station, at intervals, while he talks. John Martin sums up Demoro's arguments and then introduces the next topic. Wolf Homburger (University of California, Berkeley) discusses 1. the role of BART in preserving the Bay Area business community and 2. reasons why the present BART system is not helping to solve the area's air pollution problem. Henry Bain examines the effect of the BART system on other forms of transport, particularly bus transport in the Bay Area. Aerial film shots of freeways, the Golden Gate Bridge and traffic on the bridge shot from a moving car. Wolf Homburger points out the reasons for BART's failure to provide a reasonable service for trips of less than five miles. He explains why he feels that a system of intensively used bus lanes may have done a better job than BART. Some film shots of freeway traffic as he talks. John Martin introduces the next topic; the effect of BART on living patterns in the Bay-Area. Michael Kaplan (Lake Merritt Colosseum Project) explains why, in his view, BART had no effect in shaping growth patterns for land usage in the area. Shots of BART trains. Wolf Homburger joins in the discussion. Shots of San Francisco streets. William Wattenburg (University of California, Berkeley) and Michael Kaplan discuss the lack of integration with other transport systems which result, they feel, in BART being only a middle class commuter system. Richard Clarke (elected director of BART) and Bill Hine (BART Planning director) discuss the importance of co-ordinating BART with various feeder services in the area. Henry Bain (Metropolitan Transportation Commission) discusses one of the functions of the Commission; a long term study of the impact of BART on the Bay Area. Michael Kaplan and Richard Clarke discuss the political responsiveness of the BART planners in designing and operating a system seen to be desirable by local citizens. John Martin sums up. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/72373 |
| Production number: | 00525_5251 |
| Videofinder number: | 766 |
| Available to public: | no |
