TRANSIT'S ROCK AND HARD PLACE

Transit operators are faced with dilemmas over procurements and technology, but the author sees the greatest challenge for managers being the future of federal funding for capital and operating purposes. In any case, managers will be faced with the balancing of service levels within the constraints of revenue and operating expenses. There has been an incomplete transition of public transport from a private business to a community public service; in today's role there are benefits both for the user and for the community served. The support of such service from these segments needs to be resolved; the author insists this should not be done on an adversary basis. He also asks that technological horizons be dropped from the 20-30 year span, the norm over the past two decades, to 5 to 15 years in this period of financial stringency.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Murphy-Richter Publishing Company

  20 North Wacker Driver
  Chicago, IL  United States  60606
• Authors:
  • Gorman, F A
• Publication Date: 1981-10

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 39-44
• Serial:
  • Progressive Railroading
  • Volume: 24
  • Issue Number: 10
  • Publisher: Trade Press Publishing Corporation
  • ISSN: 0033-0817
  • Serial URL: http://www.progressiverailroading.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Finance; Forecasting; Government funding; Level of service; Public transit; Subsidies; Technology; Transit vehicle operations; Transportation
• Old TRIS Terms: Operating strategies
• Subject Areas: Finance; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00345425
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 30 1982 12:00AM