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The application of microcomputers in various phases of a multidisciplinary project encompassing a comprehensive transportation planning study and preliminary engineering for a metro or rail rapid transit system and an underwater railroad tube tunnel for Istanbul, Turkey, is described. Microcomputers were used to process the results of 9 person-year effort of travel data collection. Over 70 megabytes of processed data files were created using various specialized software programs. Calibration of a complex four-step transportation modeling system, as well as testing of numerous alternatives were successfully accomplished on microcomputers. A wide range of engineering applications, structural analyses, cost estimation, project control and scheduling, and cost control tasks also were accomplished for which the microcomputer was found to be an indispensable tool. Tabulations of data and results, computer-generated graphics, and the word processing capabilities of microcomputers permitted the efficient production of a large number of complex project reports (in two languages) on time and in a cost-effective manner. Staff training of personnel without previous computer experience was surprisingly easy and was accomplished within a very short period of time due to the user friendliness of modern software. The versatility of microcomputers and the effectiveness with which they were applied to this complex overseas project was surprising. Despite certain difficulties and problems, it is apparent that present day microcomputer technology can be successfully used in somewhat isolated overseas environments to develop a complex engineering/planning project.

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Engineering; Information processing; Mathematical models; Microcomputers; Railroads; Rapid transit; Transportation; Transportation planning

Transportation models

Istanbul (Turkey)

Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB

Nov 30 1987 12:00AM

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• EFFECTS OF FARE AND OTHER FACTORS ON EXPRESS BUS RIDERSHIP IN A MEDIUM-SIZED URBAN AREA
• ESTIMATING THE POTENTIAL COST SAVINGS OF TRANSIT SERVICE CONTRACTING
• EXTENSIONS OF STOCHASTIC MULTIPATH TRIP ASSIGNMENT TO TRANSIT NETWORKS
• ON-TIME PERFORMANCE AND THE EXPONENTIAL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION
• SHORT TURNING ON TRANSIT ROUTES
• URBAN TRANSIT PROFITABILITY BY ROUTE AND TIME OF DAY