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Title:

PERFORMANCE-BASED MEASURES IN TRANSIT FUND ALLOCATION
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Accession Number:

00983331

Record Type:

Monograph

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/030907018X

Abstract:

This synthesis will be of interest to transit practitioners and transportation professionals, including technical and research staff, as well as those working with them, with regard to the use of performance measures for the allocation of financial assistance to local transit agencies. The synthesis explores current perspectives, practices, and experiences. It focuses primarily on the extent to which traditional measures of transit performance--internal measures of economic efficiency, service effectiveness, and productivity--are used in allocating funds to transit. The report summarizes the experiences of a variety of transit agencies. In addition, it sought to capture key perspectives of transit and transportation professionals on the relationship between system performance and funding decisions and to identify barriers to more extensive use of performance measures in the allocation of funds for public transportation. This report includes a literature review, supplemented by survey responses from 22 transit agencies and 9 metropolitan planning agencies, as well as interviews with 4 states to explore in greater detail current approaches to the use of performance measures in funding allocation, use of factors in the allocation of transit funds, barriers or issues involved in doing so, and changes that have been made in recent years in the use of transit performance measures and other factors in fund allocation.

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

Report/Paper Numbers:

Project J-7, Topic SG-10

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Stanley, R G
Hendren, P G

Pagination:

82 p.

Publication Date:

2004

Serial:

TCRP Synthesis of Transit Practice

Issue Number: 56
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 1073-4880

ISBN:

030907018X

Features:

Appendices (3) ; Figures (6) ; References (6) ; Tables (27)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Fund allocations

Subject Areas:

Economics; Finance; Highways; Public Transportation

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 16 2004 12:00AM