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SOLON is an interactive microcomputer graphic method that addresses the problems of transit scheduling and route efficiency and productivity improvement. It has three unique characteristics: First, it provides solutions at any specified time or continuously through the life of a transport service by tracing the interactions among scheduling changes, route ridership, and service cost effectiveness. Second, it explicitly treats time delays that hamper route performance. Third, its modules operate interactively or independently and can be modified by the user. Because it addresses transit problems at the route level, SOLON can facilitate management and funding decision making, by determining the viability of individual routes, and aid in selecting the best performance policies. Further, because it assumes no previous computer knowledge, it can substantially increase personnel training productivity. SOLON inputs include conventional socioeconomic and transportation data. Output performance indicators are provided by mode and for every time instant, subject to selected policies and exogenous fluctuations such as changes in energy cost, inflation, and unemployment.

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Administration; Bus routes; Computer graphics; Decision making; Microcomputers; Operating costs; Output; Productivity; Public transit; Routing; Scheduling; Training

Input; Interactive graphics

Administration and Management; Education and Training; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB

May 31 1986 12:00AM

• ANALYSIS OF BUS TRANSIT'S OPERATING LABOR EFFICIENCY USING SECTION 15 DATA
• GETTING CONTROL OVER OPERATING BUDGETS: METHODOLOGY FOR EVALUATING PRODUCTIVITY ALTERNATIVES
• GUIDED TOUR THROUGH THE SECTION 15 MAZE
• IMPROVING SECTION 15 PASSENGER DATA COLLECTION TECHNIQUES
• PART-TIME PUBLIC TRANSIT OPERATORS: EXPERIENCES AND PROSPECT
• RESEARCH IMPLICATIONS OF PROPOSED CHANGES IN THE UMTA SECTION 15 REPORTING SYSTEM
• REVIEW OF THE USE OF PART-TIME TRANSIT OPERATORS AND METHODS FOR ASSIGNING PART-TIME WORK
• SYSTEM AND ROUTE OPTIMIZATION MODEL FOR MINIMIZING URBAN TRANSIT OPERATING DEFICITS
• TRANSIT OPERATOR PERFORMANCE EVALUATION: STUDY GROUP REVIEW AT MUNI