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Title: Combining Automatic Vehicle Locator and Automated Passenger Counters
Accession Number: 01156950
Record Type: Component
Availability: American Public Transportation Association 1666 K Street, NW, Suite 1100 Abstract: Many public transit systems rely on automated passenger counters to calculate ridership, justify future funding and optimize planning for their agencies. Automated Passenger Counters (APC) can improve planning and scheduling and help reallocate resources to correspond with demand. Using APC as a stand- alone system can provide reports per stop, door, trip or route and line. However, combining an APC system with an automatic vehicle location system gives greater functionality to an agency with benefits such as real time stop and route identification, as well as more flexibility with trip add-ons or re-routes. If an agency uses a stand-alone APC system in parallel to a separate AVL system, it may become expensive to maintain due to the use of two separate systems. The agency would need to maintain a second database for data import and a separate reporting system. In addition, the cost of training staff on two different vendor systems may lead to higher project management expenses and prolong the successful operation of the agencies resources.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01157862
Language: English
Corporate Authors: American Public Transportation Association 1666 K Street, NW, Suite 1100 Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Rakebrandt, AndreasPagination: 39p
Publication Date: 2009
Conference:
Bus & Paratransit Conference & International Bus Roadeo/Bus Rapid Transit Conference
Location:
Seattle WA, United States Media Type: CD-ROM
Features: Figures
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Subject Areas: Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: May 10 2010 2:58PM
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