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http://onlinepubs.trb.org...epubs/trnews/trnews225.pdf

This article looks at innovative services that deploy intelligent transportation systems in rural areas. Adapting urban intelligent transportation systems to improve rural transit services raises problems that involve operations, staffing, and financing, as well as service coordination, data management, and communications infrastructure. Several successes and initiatives are showing the way.

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English

p. 18-22

2003-3

TR News

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Communications; Data management; Financing; Infrastructure; Intelligent transportation systems; Operations; Personnel; Rural transit

Service coordination

Administration and Management; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society

TRIS, TRB

Apr 28 2003 12:00AM

• INTERCITY BUS LINKS: MOVING INTO NEW TERRITORY
• POINT OF VIEW: MAKING THE CONNECTIONS: STRENGTHENING THE NATION'S TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
• SURVEYING THE ISSUES: CONFERENCE ON RURAL BUS TRANSPORTATION A CONTINUING SUCCESS
• THE CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS OF RURAL AMERICA: WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR TRANSPORTATION PROVIDERS?
• THE TRIP TO TOWN: RURAL TRANSPORTATION PATTERNS AND DEVELOPMENTS SINCE 1900