NTL Record

Title Bus Scheduling Manual: Traffic Checking and Schedule Preparation
Record ID 56349
Personal Name
Creator
Rainville, Jr., Walter S.
Corporate Creator American Transit Association
Corporate
Contributor
American Public Transit Association; United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration. Office of Technical Assistance; United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Secretary of Transportation. Technology Sharing Division
Publisher United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration; American Public Transit Association
Publication Date 19470801
Language English
Abstract This volume is viewed today as a classic reference on manual scheduling practices. It represents a comprehensive effort made over 30 years ago to pull together the state of the practice in this field, and many of those practices still remain valid today. Because of the classic nature of this reference, it is reproduced unchanged from its original edition. Operators today should note that some of the technological references in the original volume are dated, and that the advent of hand calculators, data management systems, and microcomputers may have facilitated some of the processes described. These areas in the report should be fairly easy to recognize. The original report describes in detail an approach for establishing and revising transit schedules and illustrates it with the experiences of a representative transit company. Individual chapters cover passenger load data, running time data, the headway order, compiling the terminal sheet, run cutting, and distribution of schedule information. The document should be especially useful to transit planners and operations managers with responsibility for establishing schedules.
Rosap ID dot:413
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/413
TRT Terms Urban transit; Public transit; Schedule maintenance; Cost estimating; Operating costs; Traffic assignment
General Subjects Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation
Geographical
Coverage
Washington (District of Columbia); United States
TRIS Online
Accession No
371945
Report Number DOT-I-82-23
Resource type Tech Report
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/56000/56300/56349/busschedulingma8223unse_0.pdf
Format PDF
Database NTL Digital Repository