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44-580: Beaverton Transit Center is a multimodal transport hub in Beaverton, Oregon , United States. Owned and operated by TriMet , it is served by bus , commuter rail , and light rail . The transit center is MAX Light Rail 's 15th station eastbound on the Blue Line and 11th station eastbound on the Red Line . It is also the northern terminus of WES Commuter Rail and a hub for bus routes mostly serving

88-598: A busway or light rail line between Portland and the west side. In preparation for what would become the Westside MAX extension, which would extend the Metropolitan Area Express (MAX) from downtown Portland to Beaverton and Hillsboro , Beaverton city planners began considering the transit center's relocation in February 1982. TriMet studied three site proposals, which included an expansion of

132-434: A commuter lot , is a parking lot with public transport connections that allows commuters and other people heading to city centres to leave their vehicles and transfer to a bus , rail system ( rapid transit , light rail , or commuter rail ), or carpool for the remainder of the journey. The vehicle is left in the parking lot during the day and retrieved when the owner returns. Park and rides are generally located in

176-778: A 20 January 1956 report in the Los Angeles Times . It refers to the nominal scenario whereby a passenger is driven to the station by spouse or partner , then they kiss each other goodbye before the passenger catches the train. Deutsche Bahn has announced that it will be changing the English expressions for Kiss and Ride, Service Points and Counters to German ones. In Italy the new Bologna Centrale railway station uses "kiss and ride" signs. Some high-speed railway stations in Taiwan have signs outside stations reading "Kiss and Ride" in English, with Chinese characters above

220-469: A full-time basis from 1973. Better Choice Parking first offered an airport park and ride service at London Gatwick Airport in 1978. Oxford now operates park and ride from 5 dedicated parking lots around the city. As of 2015, Oxford has the biggest urban park & ride network in the UK with a combined capacity of 5,031 car parking spaces. Some railway stations are promoted as a park and ride facility for

264-498: A major transport hub, often multimodal (bus and rail), may be referred to as a transport centre or, in American English , as a transit center . Sections of city streets that are devoted to functioning as transit hubs are referred to as transit malls . In cities with a central station , that station often also functions as a transport hub in addition to being a railway station. Journey planning involving transport hubs

308-408: A name for using cycle boxes or racks near public transport terminals, mostly together with P & R parking lots. This system can be promoted through integrated fare and tickets with public transport system. Many railway stations and airports feature a "kiss-and-ride" or "kiss-and-fly" area in which cars can stop briefly to discharge or, less commonly, pick up passengers. The term first appeared in

352-473: A town a few miles away, for instance Liskeard for Looe and St Erth for St  Ives , both in Cornwall , England, and Norden for Swanage , Dorset , England (by steam railway ). These help relieve traffic congestion and parking problems in the town. In contrast, some stations act as a railhead, easily accessed by road, for long-distance traffic. Names of stations in the UK with large car parks outside

396-460: A travel office, food shop, car wash , or cafeteria may be provided. These are often encouraged by municipal operators to encourage use of park and ride. Park and ride facilities, with dedicated parking lots and bus services, began in the 1960s in the UK. Oxford operated the first such scheme, initially with an experimental service operating part-time from a motel on the A34 in the 1960s and then on

440-809: Is currently the only transit center in the network served by both MAX and WES. On MAX, Beaverton Transit Center is situated between Beaverton Central station and Sunset Transit Center and serves as the 15th station eastbound on the Blue Line and the western terminus of the Red Line. The Blue Line connects the transit center westbound to Hatfield Government Center station in downtown Hillsboro and eastbound through Portland to Cleveland Avenue station in Gresham. The Red Line runs from Beaverton through Portland to Portland International Airport station . The MAX station recorded 4,554 average weekday boardings in fall 2018,

484-483: Is more complicated than direct trips, as journeys will typically require a transfer at the hub. Modern electronic journey planners for public transport have a digital representation of both the stops and transport hubs in a network, to allow them to calculate journeys that include transfers at hubs. Airports have a twofold hub function. First, they concentrate passenger traffic into one place for onward transportation. This makes it important for airports to be connected to

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528-461: Is the northern terminus of WES, which connects Beaverton to Tigard , Tualatin , and Wilsonville. The next station southbound is Hall/Nimbus , which is also located in Beaverton. WES operates only on weekdays during the morning and evening rush hour commutes. WES trains run approximately every 30 minutes during service hours. A majority of the bus routes stopping at Beaverton Transit Center serve

572-747: The hub and spoke system for aviation in 1955 from its hub in Atlanta, Georgia , United States , in an effort to compete with Eastern Air Lines . FedEx adopted the hub and spoke model for overnight package delivery during the 1970s. When the United States airline industry was deregulated in 1978, Delta's hub and spoke paradigm was adopted by several airlines. Many airlines around the world operate hub-and-spoke systems facilitating passenger connections between their respective flights. Intermodal passenger transport hubs in public transport include bus stations, railway stations and metro stations , while

616-511: The suburbs of metropolitan areas or on the outer edges of large cities. A park and ride that only offers parking for meeting a carpool and not connections to public transport may also be called a park and pool . Park and ride is abbreviated as "P+R" on road signs in some countries, and is often styled as "Park & Ride" in marketing. In Sweden , a tax has been introduced on the benefit of free or cheap parking paid by an employer, if workers would otherwise have to pay. The tax has reduced

660-422: The Blue Line, Red Line service from Portland International Airport was extended to the transit center in 2003. WES began serving Beaverton Transit Center in 2009. The first Beaverton Transit Center opened at a different location from the current facility, about 1,100 feet (340 m) farther south on Lombard Avenue and Broadway Street near Beaverton–Hillsdale Highway ; there were timed transfer connections among

704-478: The Blue Line, while the middle track is used by the Red Line. A 15-minute pick-up and drop-off area containing several parking spaces sits adjacent to the western MAX platform. The WES platform occupies the southeastern edge of the transit center, accompanied by a single-track railway and a buffer stop to mark the end of the line. All of Beaverton Transit Center's rail platforms feature ticket vending machines and passenger information displays . As of October 2020,

748-563: The Netherlands, many English terms appear in the Dutch language, and "Kiss & Ride" is one of them. Park and ride schemes do not necessarily involve public transport. They can be provided to reduce the number of cars on the road by promoting carpooling , vanpooling , and carsharing . Partly because of the concentration of riders, and thus a reduced number of vehicles, these park and ride terminals often have express transit services into

792-611: The TriMet system and the Pacific Northwest . In August 2022, TriMet received a $ 5.6 million grant from the Federal Transit Administration to upgrade Beaverton Transit Center. Construction is expected to begin in 2025. Beaverton Transit Center serves the central Beaverton area. It is located north of Southwest Canyon Road, bounded by Southwest Lombard Avenue to the west and Beaverton Creek to

836-449: The WES line commenced on February 2, 2009. In March 2011, TriMet began construction of one of two bike-and-ride facilities at Beaverton Transit Center (the other at Gresham Central Transit Center ), its second after the first facility built at Sunset Transit Center . The Beaverton Transit Center bike and ride opened the following July with 100 spaces for bicycles, at the time the largest in

880-411: The airline does not fly directly between. Airlines have extended the hub-and-spoke model in various ways. One method is to create additional hubs on a regional basis, and to create major routes between the hubs. This reduces the need to travel long distances between nodes that are close together. Another method is to use focus cities to implement point-to-point service for high traffic routes, bypassing

924-562: The discovery of an illegal land fill at the site, which revealed that the property had originally been a wetland , prevented the issuance of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) permit. Preliminary work finally started in October of that year after the USACE deemed that "public interest" outweighed the environmental losses caused by the land fill and issued the permit. Urban Mass Transportation Administration funds covered 80 percent of

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968-592: The early morning and late evening. In October 2014, the late-night route was changed to one going via downtown Portland to Beaverton Transit Center and numbered 9X. These routes were intended to provide some service at times when WES was not operating (during rush hours, WES connects the same two points; the SMART transit center is at WES's Wilsonville station ). The service was discontinued in September 2016. Transport hub Historically, an interchange service in

1012-401: The existing location on Lombard Avenue and Broadway Street, a triangular area occupied by existing establishments between Hall Boulevard and Watson Avenue, and 4.8 acres (1.9 ha) of undeveloped land on Canyon Road and Hall Boulevard. Planners selected the third option the following September. TriMet had targeted beginning construction of the replacement facility by the summer of 1987, but

1056-494: The future". An interactive sculpture created by Frank Boyden and Brad Rude, entitled The Interactivator , sits on the WES platform. It features 16 movable bronze heads and a vehicle mounted on a stainless steel table. Designed to represent the train and the variety of people who ride the line, the sculptures serve as a "metaphor for the human experience". Beaverton Transit Center is TriMet's busiest transit center with 9,709 total weekday boardings for all modes in September 2018. It

1100-404: The hub entirely. There are usually three kinds of freight hubs: sea-road, sea-rail, and road-rail, though they can also be sea-road-rail. With the growth of containerization , intermodal freight transport has become more efficient, often making multiple legs cheaper than through services—increasing the use of hubs. Park and ride A park and ride , also known as incentive parking or

1144-462: The main urban area are often suffixed with "Parkway", such as Bristol Parkway , Tiverton Parkway , and Oxford Parkway . At Luton Airport Parkway and Southampton Airport Parkway , the stations are there to serve air as well as road passengers. In the United States , it is common for outlying rail stations to include automobile parking, often with hundreds of spaces. B & R (B + R) is

1188-597: The number of workers driving into the inner city, and increased the usage of park and ride areas, especially in Stockholm . The introduction of a congestion tax in Stockholm has further increased the usage of park and ride. In Prague , park and ride parking lots are established near some metro and railway stations (about 17 parks near 12 metro stations and 3 train stations, in 2011). These parking lots offer low prices and all-day and return (2× 75 min) tickets including

1232-403: The project as a way of giving the students hands-on experience in designing and implementing a public art project. In 1994, artist Christopher Rauschenberg photographed the station's site prior to the start of construction. This image was etched onto the station's windscreen. It is described as a way to "document the past as the areas change and grow and [to] offer a comparison with the landscape of

1276-466: The project's $ 2 million budget, and the second Beaverton Transit Center opened on September 4, 1988. It was initially built as another bus-only transit center, but plans reserved an area on the north side of the property for future light rail platforms. In 1993, TriMet began construction of the Westside MAX extension. During planning, Beaverton officials declined to build a park and ride near

1320-575: The public transport fare. Park and ride facilities allow commuters to avoid a stressful drive along congested roads and a search for scarce, expensive city-centre parking. They may well reduce congestion by assisting the use of public transport in congested urban areas. There is not much research on the pros and cons of park and ride schemes. It has been suggested that there is "a lack of clear-cut evidence for park and ride's widely assumed impact in reducing congestion". Park and ride facilities help commuters who live beyond practical walking distance from

1364-475: The rail plan examined two options for the line's northern terminus: Beaverton Transit Center and Merlo Road/Southwest 158th Avenue station . A revised plan selected a shorter route to Beaverton Transit Center in 2000. After several years of delays due to a lack of funding, a platform for the WES Commuter Rail line began construction at the southern end of the transit center in 2006. Regular service on

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1408-701: The railway station or bus stop. They may also suit commuters with alternative fuel vehicles , which often have reduced range, when the facility is closer to home than the ultimate destination. They also are useful as a fixed meeting place for those carsharing or carpooling or using "kiss and ride" (see below). Also, some transit operators use park and ride facilities to encourage more efficient driving practices by reserving parking spaces for low emission designs , high-occupancy vehicles , or carsharing. Many park and rides have passenger waiting areas and/or toilets. Travel information , such as leaflets and posters, may be provided. At larger facilities, extra services such as

1452-869: The scheduled passenger air transport industry involved a "through plane" flight operated by two or more airlines where a single aircraft was used with the individual airlines operating it with their own flight crews on their respective portions of a direct, no-change-of-plane multi-stop flight. In the U.S., a number of air carriers including Alaska Airlines , American Airlines , Braniff International Airways , Continental Airlines , Delta Air Lines , Eastern Airlines , Frontier Airlines (1950-1986) , Hughes Airwest , National Airlines (1934-1980) , Pan Am , Trans World Airlines ( TWA ), United Airlines and Western Airlines previously operated such cooperative "through plane" interchange flights on both domestic and/or international services with these schedules appearing in their respective system timetables. Delta Air Lines pioneered

1496-730: The second-busiest in the system after Gateway/Northeast 99th Avenue Transit Center . MAX trains serve the transit center for approximately 22 hours from Monday to Thursday; they run slightly later on Fridays and Saturdays and end earlier on Sundays. Headways measure from as little as five minutes during weekday rush hour up to 30 minutes in the early mornings and late evenings. For most of the day, service runs every fifteen minutes. MAX trains take approximately 25 minutes to reach Pioneer Square in downtown Portland, 30 minutes to downtown Hillsboro, 65 minutes to Portland International Airport, and 75 minutes to Gresham. The last eastbound and westbound trains are Blue Line services. Beaverton Transit Center

1540-657: The several bus routes that served it. It was one of two major transport hubs Portland 's regional transit agency, TriMet , built in Beaverton as part of its Westside Transit Plan along with Cedar Hills Transit Center . The $ 1.3 million plan, which consisted of new and modified bus routes within the Portland metropolitan area 's westside suburbs in Washington County and between those areas and downtown Portland , commenced service on June 17, 1979. A new plan surfaced that same year amid discussions of building

1584-426: The south. It is connected by walkway to Canyon Place Shopping Center to the east. A bus-only loop containing nine bus bays occupies a majority of the transit center. A structure at the center of the loop houses a concession stand . The MAX stop, designed by OTAK, Inc., is situated in the northwest. This stop consists of two side platforms and one island platform , served by three tracks. The outer tracks are used by

1628-410: The surrounding transport infrastructure, including roads, bus services, and railway and rapid transit systems. Secondly some airports function as intra-modular hubs for the airlines, or airline hubs . This is a common strategy among network airlines who fly only from limited number of airports and usually will make their customers change planes at one of their hubs if they want to get between two cities

1672-466: The transit center has a total of 136 bicycle parking spaces of which 76 are inside a secure bike and ride. The MAX station's original shelter featured "whimsical photographic portraits of passengers" and images of local landmarks. These photos were captured by students Katie O'Malley and Petra Prostrednik of Beaverton's Arts and Communications High School . They were led by design team artist Richard Turner and photographer Barbara Turner, who came up with

1716-411: The transit center, stating that one of the goals of the light rail project was to reduce auto congestion in central Beaverton. The transit center's MAX platforms opened on September 12, 1998, at the same time as most of the extension. Between 1998 and 2001, TriMet operated only one MAX service, which ran the entire length of existing tracks from Hillsboro through downtown Portland to Gresham . That service

1760-600: The westside communities of Washington County and downtown Portland. An exception to this is route 20–Burnside/Stark, which continues east from downtown across the Willamette River to Gresham. As of August 2023, the following TriMet bus lines serve the transit center: In August 2013, Wilsonville's South Metro Area Regional Transit (SMART) began operating route 8X, an express bus route that connected Beaverton Transit Center with SMART's Wilsonville Transit Center. Only one scheduled trip per day ran in each direction, in

1804-400: The westside communities of the Portland metropolitan area . Beaverton Transit Center is situated on Southwest Lombard Avenue, just north of Southwest Canyon Road in central Beaverton, connected by walkway to Canyon Place Shopping Center. It recorded 9,709 average weekday boardings for all modes in fall 2018, making it TriMet's busiest transit center. The first Beaverton Transit Center, which

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1848-458: The words that read "temporary pick-up and drop-off zone". Kiss and Rides are getting popular in Poland . Cities with such areas include Wrocław (since October 2011), Kraków (since 15 November 2013), Warsaw (since 2016), and Toruń (since 2016). Locally they are known by their English name, i.e. "Kiss and ride" and while the sign is non-standardized, all of them contain the letters K+R. In

1892-459: Was one of two transit centers built in Beaverton as part of TriMet's Westside Transit Plan, opened near Beaverton–Hillsdale Highway and Lombard Avenue in 1979. The second and current facility, relocated farther north from the previous site, opened on September 4, 1988, for bus service. The Westside MAX project, which extended light rail from downtown Portland to Beaverton and Hillsboro , added light rail platforms in 1998. Initially served only by

1936-666: Was renamed the Blue Line in 2001 following the completion of the Airport MAX project, which introduced the Red Line to Portland International Airport. Originally, westbound Red Line trains only ran up to the Library and Galleria stations in downtown Portland, where they turned around at the 11th Avenue loop tracks. On September 1, 2003, TriMet extended Red Line service up to Beaverton Transit Center, its present western terminus. Proposals for connecting Beaverton and Wilsonville by commuter rail emerged in 1996. The committee studying

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