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Swift Bus Rapid Transit

Index Swift Bus Rapid Transit

Swift Bus Rapid Transit is a bus rapid transit system operated by Community Transit in Snohomish County, Washington, part of the Seattle metropolitan area. [1]

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Arlington, Washington

Arlington is a city in northern Snohomish County, Washington, United States, part of the Seattle metropolitan area.

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Articulated bus

An articulated bus (either a motor bus or trolleybus) is an articulated vehicle used in public transportation.

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Ballot measure

A ballot measure is a piece of proposed legislation to be approved or rejected by eligible voters.

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Bicycle carrier

A bicycle carrier, also commonly called a bike rack, is a device attached to an automobile or bus for transporting bicycles.

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Boeing Everett Factory

The Boeing Everett Factory, in Everett, Washington, is an airplane assembly building owned by Boeing.

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Bothell, Washington

Bothell is a city located in King and Snohomish Counties in the State of Washington.

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Bus garage

A bus garage, also known as a bus depot, bus base or bus barn, is a facility where buses are stored and maintained.

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Bus lane

A bus lane or bus-only lane is a lane restricted to buses, often on certain days and times, and generally used to speed up public transport that would be otherwise held up by traffic congestion.

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Bus priority

Bus priority or transit signal priority (TSP) is a name for various techniques to improve service and reduce delay for mass transit vehicles at intersections (or junctions) controlled by traffic signals.

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Bus rapid transit

Bus rapid transit (BRT, BRTS, busway, transitway) is a bus-based public transport system designed to improve capacity and reliability relative to a conventional bus system.

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City limits

The terms city limit and city boundary refer to the defined boundary or border of a city.

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Coin

A coin is a small, flat, (usually) round piece of metal or plastic used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender.

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Community Transit

Community Transit (CT) is the public transit authority of Snohomish County, Washington, United States, excluding the city of Everett, in the Seattle metropolitan area.

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Countdown

A countdown is a sequence of backward counting to indicate the time remaining before an event is scheduled to occur.

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Credit card

A credit card is a payment card issued to users (cardholders) to enable the cardholder to pay a merchant for goods and services based on the cardholder's promise to the card issuer to pay them for the amounts so paid plus the other agreed charges.

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Dead mileage

Dead mileage, dead running or dead heading in public transport and empty leg in air charter, is when a revenue gaining vehicle operates without carrying or accepting passengers, such as when coming from a garage to begin its first trip of the day.

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Downtown Seattle

Downtown is the central business district of Seattle, Washington.

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Edmonds Community College

Edmonds Community College is a public community college in Lynnwood, in the metropolitan area of Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Edmonds, Washington

Edmonds is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States.

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Educational film

An educational film is a film or movie whose primary purpose is to educate.

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Everett Station

Everett Station is an Amtrak train station serving the city of Everett, Washington.

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Everett, Washington

Everett is the county seat of and the largest city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States.

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Federal Transit Administration

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is an agency within the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) that provides financial and technical assistance to local public transportation systems.

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Free public transport

Free public transport, often called fare-free public transit or zero-fare public transport, refers to public transport funded in full by means other than by collecting fares from passengers.

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Global Positioning System

The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Air Force.

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Groundbreaking

Groundbreaking, also known as cutting, sod-cutting, turning the first sod or a sod-turning ceremony, is a traditional ceremony in many cultures that celebrates the first day of construction for a building or other project.

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Headway

Headway is a measurement of the distance or time between vehicles in a transit system.

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High-occupancy vehicle lane

A high-occupancy vehicle lane (also known as an HOV lane, carpool lane, diamond lane, 2+ lane, and transit lane or T2 or T3 lanes in Australia and New Zealand) is a restricted traffic lane reserved at peak travel times or longer for the exclusive use of vehicles with a driver and one or more passengers, including carpools, vanpools, and transit buses.

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Hybrid electric bus

A hybrid electric bus combines a conventional internal combustion engine propulsion system with an electric propulsion system.

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Infill station

An infill station (sometimes in-fill station) is a train station built on an existing passenger rail, rapid transit, or light rail line to address demand in a location between existing stations.

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King County, Washington

King County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Limited-stop

In public transit, a limited-stop bus, tram, or train service is a service that stops less frequently than local service.

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Link light rail

The Link light rail is a rapid transit rail system in the Seattle metropolitan area of Washington State, being designed, built and operated by the region's mass transportation agency, Sound Transit.

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List of bus rapid transit systems in the Americas

There are a number of bus rapid transit systems in the Americas, with some of their technical details listed below.

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List of Community Transit bus routes

Community Transit is a public transit agency serving Snohomish County, part of the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington, with the exception of the city of Everett.

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Long-range planning

Formalized long-range business planning, in particular that taught as a discipline in business schools or just reported in business books, has a history that goes back to the mid 20th century.

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Lynnwood Link extension

The Lynnwood Link extension is a planned Link light rail extension traveling north from Northgate to Lynnwood.

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Lynnwood Transit Center

Lynnwood Transit Center, also known as Lynnwood TC or LTC, is a bus station and proposed light rail station in Lynnwood, Washington.

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Lynnwood, Washington

Lynnwood is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States.

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Marysville, Washington

Marysville is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States, part of the Seattle metropolitan area.

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Mastercard

Mastercard Incorporated (stylized as MasterCard from 1979 to 2016 and mastercard since 2016) is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in the Mastercard International Global Headquarters in Purchase, New York, United States.

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Medicare (United States)

In the United States, Medicare is a national health insurance program, now administered by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services of the U.S. federal government but begun in 1966 under the Social Security Administration.

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Metro Magazine

Metro Magazine is a trade magazine for bus and rail transit and motorcoach operators, published in the United States since 1904, taking its current name in 1975.

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Midnight

Midnight is the transition time from one day to the next – the moment when the date changes.

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Mill Creek, Washington

Mill Creek is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States.

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New Flyer Industries

NFI Group Inc. is a Canadian multinational automotive company specializing in the manufacturing of heavy-duty transit buses and motorcoaches and the distribution of aftermarket parts.

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Northgate, Seattle

Northgate is a neighborhood in north Seattle, Washington, named for and surrounding Northgate Mall, the first covered mall in the United States.

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Opening ceremony

An opening ceremony, grand opening, or ribbon-cutting ceremony marks the official opening of a newly-constructed location or the start of an event.

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ORCA card

The ORCA card (One Regional Card for All) is a contactless, stored-value smart card system for public transit in the Puget Sound region of Washington, United States.

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Parsons Brinckerhoff

Parsons Brinckerhoff is a multinational engineering and design firm with approximately 14,000 employees.

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Passenger information system

A passenger information system (PIS or PIDS) is an automated system for supplying users of public transport with information about the nature and state of a public transport service, through visual, voice or other media.

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Passengers per hour per direction

Passengers per hour per direction or passengers per hour in peak direction (pphpd or p/h/d) is a measure of the capacity of a rapid transit or public transport system.

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Patronage (transportation)

In public transportation, patronage or ridership refers to the number of people using a transit service.

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Patty Murray

Patricia Lynn Murray (née Johns; October 11, 1950) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Washington, a seat she was first elected to in 1992.

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Plug door

A plug door is a door designed to seal itself by taking advantage of pressure difference on its two sides and is typically used on aircraft with cabin pressurization.

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Proof-of-payment

Proof-of-payment (POP) or proof-of-fare (POF) is an honor-based fare collection system used on many public transportation systems.

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Puget Sound region

The Puget Sound region is a coastal area of the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. state of Washington, including Puget Sound, the Puget Sound lowlands, and the surrounding region roughly west of the Cascade Range and east of the Olympic Mountains.

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Puget Sound Regional Council

The Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) is a metropolitan planning organization that develops policies and makes decisions about transportation planning, economic development, and growth management throughout the four-county Seattle metropolitan area surrounding Puget Sound.

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Queue jump

A queue jump is a type of roadway geometry used to provide preference to buses at intersections, often found in bus rapid transit systems.

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RapidRide

RapidRide is a network of limited-stop bus routes with some bus rapid transit features in King County, Washington, operated by King County Metro.

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Refuge island

A refuge island, also known as a pedestrian refuge, pedestrian island and colloquially as a "pork chop" island, is a small section of pavement or sidewalk, completely surrounded by asphalt or other road materials, where pedestrians can stop before finishing crossing a road.

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Sales tax

A sales tax is a tax paid to a governing body for the sales of certain goods and services.

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Seattle metropolitan area

The Seattle metropolitan area is located in the U.S. state of Washington and includes the three most populous counties—King, Snohomish, and Pierce—within the greater Puget Sound region.

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Shoreline North/185th station

Shoreline North/185th is a planned Link light rail station on the Lynnwood Link Extension serving Shoreline, Washington.

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Shoreline, Washington

Shoreline is a city in King County, Washington, United States, north of Downtown Seattle bordering the northern Seattle city limits.

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Smokey Point, Washington

Smokey Point is a community and former census-designated place in northern Snohomish County, Washington.

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Snohomish County, Washington

Snohomish County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Sound Transit

Sound Transit (ST), officially the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority, is a public transit agency serving the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Sound Transit Express

Sound Transit Express (ST Express) is a network of regional express buses, operated by the multi-county transit agency, Sound Transit.

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Subsidy

A subsidy is a form of financial aid or support extended to an economic sector (or institution, business, or individual) generally with the aim of promoting economic and social policy.

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Summit Awards

The Summit International Awards grants awards for excellence in creativity and effectiveness of advertising and communication content and was founded in 1994.

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Summons

A summons (also known in England and Wales as a claim form and in the Australian state of New South Wales as a Court Attendance Notice (CAN)) is a legal document issued by a court (a judicial summons) or by an administrative agency of government (an administrative summons) for various purposes.

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Swift Blue Line

The Swift Blue Line is a bus rapid transit route operated by Community Transit in Snohomish County, Washington, as part of the Swift system.

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Swift Green Line

The Swift Green Line is a planned Swift bus rapid transit route operated by Community Transit in Snohomish County, Washington.

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Ticket machine

A ticket machine, also known as a ticket vending machine (TVM), is a vending machine that produces tickets.

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Transit district

A transit district or transit authority is a special-purpose district organized as either a corporation chartered by statute, or a government agency, created for the purpose of providing public transportation within a specific region.

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Unincorporated area

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country.

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United States one-dollar bill

The United States one-dollar bill ($1) is a denomination of United States currency.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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Visa Inc.

Visa Inc. (also known as Visa, stylized as VISA) is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Foster City, California, United States.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Washington State Department of Transportation

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT or WashDOT) was established in 1905.

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Washington State Legislature

The Washington State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Washington.

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Washington State Route 526

State Route 526 (SR 526) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Washington, located in Snohomish County.

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Washington State Route 527

State Route 527 (SR 527, also known as the Bothell – Everett Highway) is a state highway in Snohomish County, of the U.S. state of Washington.

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Washington State Route 99

State Route 99 (SR 99), also known as the Pacific Highway, is a state highway in the Seattle metropolitan area, part of the U.S. state of Washington.

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Wheelchair ramp

A wheelchair ramp is an inclined plane installed in addition to or instead of stairs.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_Bus_Rapid_Transit

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