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When the use of part-time drivers was first proposed, there was some question as to whether they would be as reliable and committed as were full-time drivers. This paper provides comparative data to answer that question. ABSENTEEISM: the data indicate that part-time work has inherently lower absenteeism; holding sick-pay and probation effects constant, part-time drivers have less absenteeism than full-time drivers. This result becomes apparent when following an identical cohort over time as it moves between full-time and part-time work, and also in cross-section data across groups. The data also indicate that increases in the number of sick days allowed cause an increase in absenteeism for both part-time and full-time drivers. ACCIDENTS: holding constant hours of driving exposure, years of experience, and the daily time pattern of accidents, part-time drivers have lower accident rates. However, only one transit agency had sufficient data to permit this standardization. There is also an important daily pattern to accident rates: they do not increase and decrease as a function of the daily traffic cycle, but rather as a function of the daily human cycle--increasing in mid-afternoon to reach approximately the same rate on both weekdays and weekends. ATTRITION: there is a tendency for transit agencies to hire the wrong people for part-time work; 75 to 85 percent of those hired actually wanted full-time work, which leads to greater turnover and increased training costs. The quit rates of part-time drivers vary strongly with external economic conditions, moving inversely with the local unemployment rate.

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Absenteeism; Bus drivers; Crashes; Part time employees; Turnover

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Administration and Management; Highways; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; I10: Economics and Administration

TRIS, TRB

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