HOW DO WE POSITION OURSELVES FOR THE FUTURE?

Key issues that must be assessed and evaluated to ensure transit industry's vitality are identified: goals funding, service, markets, labor and productivity. An approach to "futuring" is suggested: strategic planning, a management tool already used by the private sector but that should be explored by public-sector transit agencies.

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  • Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. This paper appeared in Transportation Research Board Special Report No. 199, Future Directions of Urban Public Transportation. Papers presented at a Conference on the Future Directions of Urban Public Transportation, September 26-29, 1982, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
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• Authors:
  • Page, Richard S
• Conference:
  • Conference on the Future Directions of Urban Public Transportation, 1982, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: pp 80-82
• Monograph Title: FUTURE DIRECTIONS OF URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 199
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Forecasting; Management; Policy analysis; Policy making; Public transit; Strategic planning; Time duration; Transportation planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Long term; Management systems
• Old TRIS Terms: Transit management
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00387962
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Sep 28 1984 12:00AM