STANDARDS FOR PUBLIC TRANSIT. PART I: CRITERIA FOR TRANSIT SERVICE

In 1977, the Toronto Transit Commission produced a set of transit service standards to facilitate evaluation of proposed route and service changes and to encourage meaningful communication with citizen groups. These standards provide objective measures for the evaluation of (1) transit access, (2) transit dependency, (3) travel time, (4) land use, (5) physical constraints, (6) operating performance, and (7) route economics. This article provides a brief description of the development of each standard, and details problems involved in the calculation of route-level profit and loss ratios.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also Part II, TRIS 377210.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transit Canada Group

  Tower C, Place de Ville
  Ottawa, ONo K1A 0N5,   Canada 
• Authors:
  • MUNRO, S
  • Biemiller, A
• Publication Date: 1977-3

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 5-8
• Serial:
  • Transit Canada
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Transit Canada Group

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Captive riders; Economics; Land use; Performance; Performance evaluations; Physical condition; Public participation; Public transit; Quality of work; Routes; Travel time
• Identifier Terms: Toronto Transit Commission
• Uncontrolled Terms: Performance indicators
• Subject Areas: Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00377209
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 30 1983 12:00AM