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Monograph

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The National Cooperative Transit Research and Development Program is a unique contract research effort designed to respond quickly and efficiently to the needs of UMTA and the transit industry through solution of near-term public transportation problems. Although the Transportation Research Board administers the Program, the research content is solely the prerogative of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration. The Program is one of applied (rather than basic) research, and every possible effort is made to help administrators and engineers put the findings to early use. Program policy ensures maximum exposure of the research while in progress in the hope that research results will, in fact, more quickly find their way into practice in the form of policies, procedures, specifications, and standards of the operating agencies. The major section of this report lists and outlines the progress of research projects in eleven areas: economics, finance, personnel management, alternative analysis, system planning, route planning, impact analysis, vehicles, track and ancillary systems, general materials, energy efficiency, and the synthesis of information related to transit problems.

14 p.

1981

NCTRP Summary of Progress

Figures (3) ; Tables (6)

Development; Economics; Energy conservation; Financing; Information dissemination; Materials; Personnel management; Public passenger vehicles; Public transit; Railroad tracks; Research; Systems analysis; Transportation

Research and development; Transit vehicles

Administration and Management; Economics; Energy; Materials; Planning and Forecasting; Research; Transportation (General); Vehicles and Equipment; I10: Economics and Administration; I96: Vehicle Operating Costs

TRIS, TRB

Mar 30 1982 12:00AM