| Title | The Transit Service Reliability Problem and Potential Solutions: Proceedings of the August 1982 Transit Reliability Workshop |
|---|---|
| Record ID | 56611 |
| Personal Name Creator |
Abkowitz, Mark |
| Corporate Creator | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Corporate Contributor |
United States. Urban Mass Transit Administration. Office of Service and Management Demonstration |
| Publisher | United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration |
| Publication Date | 19830401 |
| Language | English |
| Abstract | This report contains proceedings of a workshop on transit service reliability which was sponsored by the UMTA Service and Management Demonstration Program. The purpose of the workshop was to establish a forum for sharing recent experience and research in transit reliability, and providing guidance for future program initiatives. The workshop sessions focused on three major areas which impact transit service reliability: 1) route conditions 2) maintenance activities and 3) human relations. Despite the varied perspectives among workshop attendees, there was a general consensus that transit reliability is a serious and complex problem, is not attributable to a specific area of transit operations and requires cooperative and systematic approaches to control the problem. It was also noted that any solutions to this problem are constrained by factors inherent to the concept of transit and exogenous influences on the system. The following recommendations were made for consideration in the development of future JMTA programs that are responsive to the transit reliability problem: 1) increased priority in developing methods with immediate effects and which address fundamental problems, 2) Improved forum of information dissemination and exchange, 3) additional field testing and evaluation of promising reliability control strategies, 4) continued support for training, 3) improved in-residence technical capability, 6) continued testing and evaluation of hard- «7are and software for dependability and 7) additional research directed at enhancing our understanding of the reliability problem and potential solutions. |
| Rosap ID | dot:668 |
| Rosap URL | https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/668 |
| TRT Terms | Urban transit; Bus transit; Bus routes; Ridership; Fixed routes; Statistical reliability; Reliability; Management and organization |
| General Subjects | Mass transit; Public opinion; Commuters; Route conditions; Data collection; Efficiency; Public efficiency |
| Geographical Coverage |
United States |
| TRIS Online Accession No |
373778 |
| Contract Number | NY-06-0095 |
| Report Number | UMTA-NY-06-0097-83-01 |
| Resource type | Tech Report |
| URL | https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/56000/56600/56611/transitservicer0600unse_0.pdf |
| Format | |
| Database | NTL Digital Repository |