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In a period of growing transit operating deficits, increasing attention and concern is being directed at both the decreasing levels of productivity of transit systems in general and the broad differences in measured service performance compiled for various transit systems. In making these performance assessments, analyses have commonly relied on highly aggregated industrywide data and have not given adequate consideration to the changing and unique operational context within which individual transit systems must function. This paper presents a stratification approach to the evaluation of urban bus transit system performance. The stratification scheme was used on the premise that there exist many environmental and policy factors outside the control of the transit operator that constrain the performance of the transit system. Factors such as area population, population density, union work rules, system configuration, fleet age, and operational forms have strong influences on the productivity and efficiency levels of an individual transit service. By implementing the stratification procedure and compiling temporal data pertaining to both environmental and policy influences and system performance, the possible bias in making assessments and comparisons of existing transit systems can be controlled, and changes in performance levels of a system in response to both external changes and operational improvements can be predicted. (Author)

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1980

Transportation Research Record

59th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board

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Bus transit; Measures of effectiveness; Productivity; Public transit; Stratification; Urban transportation

Administration and Management; Highways; Public Transportation; Society; I10: Economics and Administration

TRIS, TRB

Oct 28 1982 12:00AM

• ALLOCATION OF BUS TRANSIT SERVICE
• AUTOMATION IN PUBLIC TRANSIT OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT: TRENDS AND PROSPECTS. ABRIDGMENT
• CONCEPT OF TRANSPORTATION NEED REVISITED
• EFFECTS OF SMALL-SCALE TRANSIT IMPROVEMENTS ON SAVING ENERGY
• ELASTICITY MEASURES OF BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE TO OFF-PEAK FREE-FARE TRANSIT
• EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVE TRANSIT ROUTING CONFIGURATIONS IN A HYPOTHETICAL LOW-DENSITY AREA. ABRIDGMENT
• EVALUATION OF THE BARNSTABLE COUNTY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION DEMONSTRATION PROJECT
• FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE LOCAL SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC TRANSIT EXPENDITURES. ABRIDGMENT
• INTEGRATED TRANSIT-NETWORK MODEL (INET): A NEW URBAN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING SYSTEM PROGRAM
• NEAR-SIDE OR FAR-SIDE BUS STOPS: A TRANSIT POINT OF VIEW
• ORGANIZATION THEORY AND THE STRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE OF TRANSIT AGENCIES. ABRIDGMENT
• THE RUNAROUND: USER-SIDE SUBSIDIES FOR FIXED-ROUTE TRANSIT IN DANVILLE, ILLINOIS
• TIME STABILITY OF ATTITUDES TOWARD TRANSIT USE IN THE ORLANDO, FLORIDA, URBANIZED AREA. ABRIDGMENT
• VALUE OF URBAN TRANSIT OPERATING-COST MODELS AS FORECASTING TOOLS