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Title:

DIAL-A-RIDE: OPPORTUNITY FOR MANAGERIAL CONTROL

Accession Number:

00263572

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/0360859X

Abstract:

Competent management requires the ability to preceive problems, the ability to conceptualize solutions, and the skill to communicate both the problem and the solution to those responsible for carrying out management directives. It also requires that managers infuse the issue with a sense of urgency so that the solution is implemented. For the most part, public transit has not been managed by these objectives. Rather transit management has been totally absorbed with service, maintenance, and escalating costs. Policy decisions in public transit are often based on inadequate, outdated, or incomplete information or have come too late to reverse system inefficiency. Costs rise, the level of service falls, and patronage drops to levels so low that many operations are in desperate financial situations. And yet transit systems continue to be managed by heirarchical control. Effective management through the control of information flow will reverse this trend. Dail-a-ride transit, with its capability of providing real-time information about system status, is an ideal medium in which innovative management techniques can be tested. This paper explores the opportunities dial-a-ride offers for developing innovative systems for the management, control, and interpretation of information and outlines information flow techniques that can be useful in the optimization of system efficiency.

Supplemental Notes:

Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual International Conference on Demand-Responsive Transportation System conducted by the Highway Research Board on October 3-5, 1973, Rochester, New York.

Monograph Accession #:

01411715

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board (TRB)

Washington, DC

Authors:

Fielding, Gordon J
Shilling, David R

Pagination:

pp 69-77

Publication Date:

1974

Serial:

Transportation Research Board Special Report

Issue Number: 147
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0360-859X

Conference:

Fourth Annual International Conference on Demand-Responsive Transportation System

Location: Rochester New York
Date: 1973-10-3 to 1973-10-5

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

References (8)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Systems integration

Old TRIS Terms:

Subject Areas:

Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Nov 27 1981 12:00AM

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