Recent advances in bus transit operations planning

Technical Report · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:6272225

Carter, D W; Mundle, S R; McCollom, B E; Levinson, H S; West, O B

The 11 papers in the report deal with the following areas: comparative evaluation of bus route costing procedures; estimating bus ridership; FRACAS: a strategic planning model for bus transit systems; limited-stop bus operations; an evaluation; operational evaluation of bus priority strategies; use of supercalc to compile and report statistics in public transportation; optimal design of bus routes and frequencies for Ahmedabad; reducing the energy requirements of suburban transit services by route and schedule redesign; Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, turnpike express bus study; systems approach to transit bus maintenance; and, management information systems for small, fixed-route, fixed-schedule operators.

• Research Organization: Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6272225
• Report Number(s): PB-85-209872/XAB; TRB/TRR-994
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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