01077204

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/1992-13

http://scholar.google.com...+Chu&publication_year=2007

The Federal Transit Administration has approved six sampling plans that transit agencies can use to estimate the consumption of fixed-route bus services for reporting to the National Transit Database. These sampling plans follow a simple framework and are assumed to be universally applicable. Some background information is presented, and then these sampling plans (including the related statistical theory, the development of the sampling plans based on this theory, and the estimation procedure) are reviewed. More important, a set of allowable variations in passenger miles is defined for each sampling plan, and it is demonstrated that these sampling plans are not universally applicable. Improved sampling options are proposed within the simple framework of the original sampling plans.

01077203

English

pp 113-120

2007

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309104180

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Figures (2) ; References (17) ; Tables (3)

Bus transit; Fixed routes; Passenger miles; Statistical sampling; Transit operating agencies; Travel

National Transit Database; U.S. Federal Transit Administration

Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

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