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The overhead costs of transit operations represent one area in which economies can be achieved. For a large system the costs of putting buses on routes and pulling them off (pull-on and pull-off) and driver relief can be substantial: up to 10 percent of the operating budget for the system studied. These costs are directly related to the route structure and the location and capacity of bus garages. This paper describes a procedure that uses generally available planning data in the analysis of the pull-on and pull-off and relief costs for alternative garage programs. Factors studied include the number of facilities, their location, their capacity, and the routes served from each garage. It is shown that the location of garages in relation to day-base routes is a determinant of relief costs and that the difference in operating costs for alternative programs can approach $1 million per year. (Author)

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Analysis; Bus drivers; Buses; Costs; Garages; Location; Routes

Capacity; Cost analysis

Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

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Oct 27 1982 12:00AM

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