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      <title>Classifying Rural and Small Urban Transit Agencies</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In this paper, rural and small urban transit agencies are classified into peer groups using hierarchical cluster analysis and data from the Rural National Transit Database (Rural NTD). The objective is to provide a basis for the comparison of individual agency to peer group performance as well as econometric analysis between and within peer groups. Rural and small urban transit agencies are first assigned to three groups by service provided: demand-response, fixed-route, and demand-response and fixed-route service. A fourth group is created to accommodate the large number of transit agencies providing demand-response service that did not report vehicle-hour data. The four groups are then clustered using vehicle-mile, vehicle-hour (where available), and fleet size variables. Operating statistics for each cluster by group are presented. The process for comparing individual agency performance to its respective cluster is described. The Rural NTD demonstrates its usefulness as a consistent, uniform national dataset. However, additional service area information would accommodate clustering based on exogenous as opposed to endogenous variables as is necessary with the current data set.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2022 10:50:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Rural Transit Fact Book, 2021</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Rural Transit Fact Book serves as a national resource for statistics and information on rural transit in America. This publication includes rural demographic and travel behavior data as well as financial and operating statistics for agencies receiving section 5311 funding. In addition to national-level data, statistics are presented by state, Federal Transit Administration (FTA) region, tribe, and mode, as well as other agency characteristics. The rural transit data presented in this report were obtained from the Rural National Transit Database (NTD). This 2021 edition includes 2019 data from the NTD as well as additional data from the American Community Survey and National Household Travel Survey.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2021 14:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Rural Transit Fact Book serves as a national resource for statistics and information on rural transit in America. This publication includes rural demographic and travel behavior data as well as financial and operating statistics for agencies receiving section 5311 funding. In addition to national-level data, statistics are presented by state, Federal Transit Administration (FTA) region, tribe, and mode, as well as other agency characteristics. The rural transit data presented in this report were obtained from the Rural National Transit Database (NTD). This 2020 edition includes 2018 data from the NTD as well as additional data from the American Community Survey and National Household Travel Survey.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:48:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Rural Transit Fact Book 2017</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This Fact Book provides information on transit service availability and cost to help the transit industry in the United States provide efficient and effective service to meet rural community mobility needs. Financial and operating statistics can be used by agency managers, local decision makers, state directors, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), and lawmakers to assist in policy making, planning, managing operations, and evaluating performance.   The Rural Transit Fact Book serves as a national resource for statistics and information on rural transit in America. This publication includes rural demographic and travel behavior data as well as financial and operating statistics for agencies receiving section 5311 funding. In addition to national level data, statistics are presented by state, FTA region, tribe, and mode, as well as other agency characteristics. The rural transit data presented in this report were obtained from the Rural National Transit Database (NTD). This 2017 edition includes 2015 data from the Rural NTD as well as additional data from the American Community Survey, American Housing Survey, and National Household Travel Survey.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:28:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Rural Transit Fact Book 2016</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This Fact Book provides information on transit service availability and cost to help the transit industry in the United States provide efficient and effective service to meet rural community mobility needs. Financial and operating statistics can be used by agency managers, local decision makers, state directors, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), and lawmakers to assist in policy making, planning, managing operations, and evaluating performance. This publication includes rural demographic and travel behavior data as well as financial and operating statistics for agencies receiving section 5311 funding. In addition to national level data, statistics are presented by state, FTA region, tribe, and mode, as well as other agency characteristics. The rural transit data presented in this report were obtained from the Rural National Transit Database (NTD). This 2016 edition includes 2014 data from the Rural NTD as well as additional data from the American Community Survey, American Housing Survey, and National Household Travel Survey.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2016 11:27:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Rural Transit Fact Book 2015</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This Fact Book provides information on transit service availability and cost to help the transit industry in the United States provide efficient and effective service to meet rural community mobility needs. Financial and operating statistics can be used by agency managers, local decision makers, state directors, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), and lawmakers to assist in policy making, planning, managing operations, and evaluating performance. This publication includes rural demographic and travel behavior data as well as financial and operating statistics for agencies receiving section 5311 funding. In addition to national level data, statistics are presented by state, FTA region, tribe, and mode, as well as other agency characteristics. The rural transit data presented in this report were obtained from the Rural National Transit Database (NTD). This 2015 edition includes 2013 data from the Rural NTD as well as additional data from the American Community Survey, American Housing Survey, and National Household Travel Survey.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2016 10:45:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Integrated Analysis System for Rural National Transit Database</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Performance data are needed in transit performance analysis to help to identify and to prioritize problem areas for management actions. In the United States, the most comprehensive source of transit performance data has been the National Transit Database (NTD). First collected in 1978 for urban transit systems, the NTD has included data on transit organization characteristics, vehicle fleet characteristics, revenues and subsidies, operating and maintenance costs, vehicle fleet reliability and inventory, services consumed and supplied, and safety and security. In 2006, FTA expanded the NTD program to require reporting by rural transit agencies. The NTD data for rural systems for 2007 through 2013 have since been released. Because NTD data are collected and distributed annually, they are stored in separate files of varying formats, making them difficult to access for performance analysis, especially when multiple years of data are needed. This paper describes a web-based system designed to overcome this limitation. The system integrates the rural NTD data from 2007 to 2013 and provides user-friendly tools to facilitate data access and performance analysis.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2016 08:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Rural Transit Fact Book 2011</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The intent of the Rural Transit Fact Book is to serve as a national resource for statistics and information on rural transit in America. This publication includes rural demographic and travel behavior data as well as financial and operating statistics for agencies receiving section 5311 funding. In addition to national level data, statistics are presented by state, Federal Transit Administration (FTA) region, tribe, and mode, as well as other agency characteristics. The rural transit data presented in this report were obtained from the Rural National Transit Database (NTD) for 2007-2009. The 2009 data were released early this year and were the most recent data available at the time of publication, and 2007 is the first year in which data for the Rural NTD were collected.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2015 09:49:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Rural Transit Fact Book 2014</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Rural Transit Fact Book provides information on transit service availability and cost to help the transit industry in the United States provide efficient and effective service to meet rural community mobility needs. Financial and operating statistics can be used by agency managers, local decision makers, state directors, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), and lawmakers to assist in policy making, planning, managing operations, and evaluating performance. This publication includes rural demographic and travel behavior data as well as financial and operating statistics for agencies receiving section 5311 funding. In addition to national level data, statistics are presented by state, FTA region, tribe, and mode, as well as other agency characteristics. The rural transit data presented in this report were obtained from the Rural National Transit Database (NTD). The 2011 edition of the Rural Transit Fact Book was the first published by the Small Urban and Rural Transit Center (SURTC) and included Rural NTD data for 2007-2009. Since 2011, annual updates have been made to the Fact Book to provide updated data. The 2014 edition includes 2012 data from the Rural NTD as well as additional data from the American Community Survey, American Housing Survey, and National Household Travel Survey.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:23:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Methods for Forecasting Demand and Quantifying Need for Rural Passenger Transportation</title>
      <link>https://trid.trb.org/View/1247871</link>
      <description><![CDATA[This report documents the development of methods for use by planners in rural areas and operators of rural passenger transportation systems to quantify the need for passenger transportation services and the demand that is likely to be generated if passenger transportation services are provided. The methods for estimating need are of two types – the number of persons likely to have a need for passenger transportation and the number of trips that would be required to provide persons lacking a personal vehicle with a level of mobility equal to those having access to a personal vehicle. The methods for estimating demand address four specific markets – general public rural passenger transportation, passenger transportation specifically related to social service or other programs, travel on fixed-route services in micropolitan areas, and travel on commuter services from rural counties to urban centers. The methods were developed using data from the Rural National Transit Database (2006, 2009, and 2010), the National Household Travel Survey (2001 and 2009), the American Community Survey (various years) and the Longitudinal Employment-Household Dynamics dataset as well as data on services operated and ridership on those services provided by over 200 individuals who participated in workshops held in a dozen states in 2010 and 2011. The report documents the process used by the research team in developing the need and demand estimation methods, the findings of the analyses, and recommendations for functions to be used in estimation of need and demand.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:04:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Data Needs for Assessing Rural Transit Needs, Benefits, and Levels of Service</title>
      <link>https://trid.trb.org/View/1212664</link>
      <description><![CDATA[This digest presents the results of National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Project 20-65, Task 36, "Data Needs for Assessing Rural Transit Needs, Benefits, and Levels of Service."  The primary objectives of this project were to (1) review the data elements currently reported in the Rural National Transit Database (NTD) and identify data elements that are needed to record pre- and post-service change information; and (2) identify potential levels of service (LOS) options that are more accurate or useful for future evaluation of rural service.  The concept of LOS can be applied to many aspects of public transit services.  In this report, the expression refers to measures of service availability from the passenger's perspective.  Additionally, the project called for options for using the data elements and measures of LOS from other readily available data to conduct rural transit needs assessment and performance analysis.  The researchers also developed draft tools to help state departments of transportation understand the effects of various service types and levels on rural communities.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:46:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Classifying Rural and Small Urban Transit Agencies</title>
      <link>https://trid.trb.org/View/909888</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Rural and small urban transit agencies are classified into peer groups by the hierarchical cluster analysis and data from the Rural National Transit Database. The objective is to provide a basis for the comparison of individual agency performance with peer group performance as well as econometric analysis between and within peer groups. Rural and small urban transit agencies are first assigned to three groups by service provided: demand–response, fixed-route, and demand–response and fixed-route service. A fourth group is created to accommodate the many transit agencies providing demand–response service that did not report vehicle hour data. The four groups are then clustered by using vehicle mile, vehicle hour (when available), and fleet size variables. Operating statistics for each cluster by group are presented. The process for comparing individual agency performance with its respective cluster is described. The Rural National Transit Database demonstrates its usefulness as a consistent, uniform national data set. However, additional service area information would accommodate clustering based on exogenous, as opposed to endogenous, variables, as necessary with the current data set.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:17:46 GMT</pubDate>
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