Transit management and replacement capital planning. Transportation research record

Technical Report · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:6197991

The 15 papers in this report deal with the following areas: planning priorities for replacement of transit assets; establishing a transit capital replacement account - the San Diego experience; use of life-cycle cost analysis in transit capital overhaul/replace decisions - an application to the PATH railcar fleet; methodology for projecting rail transit rehabilitation and replacement-capital financing needs; long-range transit fleet planning: defining and costing a replacement-only scenario for Seattle; strategic planning as a basis for capital-investment programming: case study of the regional transportation authority in Chicago; trolley bus and motor-coach operational cost comparisons utilizing section 15 data; strategic model for operator work-force planning in the transit industry; monitoring performance of new bus routes; optimization strategies for transit systems in urban corridors; data processing software for an automatic data-acquisition system in mass transit; determinants of superior performance in public transit: research opportunities using Section 15 data; life-cycle cost analysis of electronic registering fareboxes: a case study; cluster-sampling techniques for estimating transit patronage; recent changes in BART patronage: some findings on fare elasticities.

• Research Organization: National Research Council, Washington, DC (USA). Transportation Research Board
• OSTI ID: 6197991
• Report Number(s): PB-89-160246/XAB; TRB/TRR-1165
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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