. Report on the engineering and operating features of the Chicago transportation problem . vice has been given. The con-stantly decreasing receipts per mile run, as shown in Table 12,demonstrates that a more liberal policy in the furnishing of ac-commodations has been adopted each year and the increase inreceipts per mile run in the North and West Divisions over theSouth Divisions is mainly attributable to the fact of there beinga more dense population adjacent to the business center, requiringshorter hauls. Table 13—shown graphically in Figure 12—gives the RevenuePassengers carried per year b
. Report on the engineering and operating features of the Chicago transportation problem . vice has been given. The con-stantly decreasing receipts per mile run, as shown in Table 12,demonstrates that a more liberal policy in the furnishing of ac-commodations has been adopted each year and the increase inreceipts per mile run in the North and West Divisions over theSouth Divisions is mainly attributable to the fact of there beinga more dense population adjacent to the business center, requiringshorter hauls. Table 13—shown graphically in Figure 12—gives the RevenuePassengers carried per year by the Ele\ated lines. Table 14—shown graphically in Figures 13 and 14—gives theRevenue Passengers carried per year from 1892 to 1901 on theSurface and Elevated lines combined, and the percentage of in-crease each year. This table more satisfactorily shows the steadyand uniform increase in the total transportation business eachyear, combining, as it does, the competing systems. During thenine years from 1892 to 1901 the total increase has been per POPULATION AND TRAiFIC 73. 11. 74 THE CHICAGO TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM 05H h -- - rr ::: 0 -+t-|+ritf_:||: TAMf IM ^1 ; i:-;::::::::: ::::::..::i ::::::::::::::;¥^-ff-: |i;2:E;!^^.=i:::::|d ::::::::::;::::-:Li;)::3 ntTTir 0 it;r|:i::[|;5lfe:;; i^ i^:_^ Si|::::::: ,000 Jl u/^ 90,00080,000 .;: : i:!:;; H 70000 -mMz If —— 60,000 x-W-~- : :,!;-:;; m ::::;:;;;::::::::::::3:; i ::::::::::::::::::::!:;!:: Hm 50,000 ■A:-:--. ^:;;;;;;:::::;i|!=i^;;;;; ::;:;i;:;ii:::: 40,00030,00020,000 lopoo n IS:::::::: ..: ::;:::::::: - ■ 1 — ::::::::::: K4S :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::) ::::;:::;!i;:;::::;::;:::;::;:;i; iill 1 tttt n r / 1 :::::::::::::::::::::::.:,(::: -] KTltfT ::;;;;;::;;;::;;i!;;;::::; iiiiii :::: ::::::::::::::::::;:: I !!!:::::::::::::::::::::::::s! H :!::::::::::::: 2 CO Oi05 s 05 3 03 o s a s s FIGURE 12. POPULATION AND TRAFFIC
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