EXTRABOARD MANAGEMENT: PROCEDURES AND TOOLS

Although transit agencies employ sufficient regular operators to provide scheduled service, they also employ operators to cover work assignments that are temporarily unfilled because of vacations, illness or absences. Extraboard management may be generally defined as the process of utilizing available manpower to perform work assignments in accordance with labor agreement provisions and work rules to ensure the provision of scheduled transit service. The challenge is to assign manpower to open work, ensuring scheduled service delivery with minimum cost. Significant cost savings or expenditures can result from extraboard management. Ineffective practices can increase payment of unscheduled premiums and for unproductive time. Three general paramaters define extraboard managament: (1) Available manpower; (2) Open work; (3) Labor agreement provisions and work rules. For any given open work and given available manpower situation, there are normally several alternative decision paths. Such decisions are affected by two conditions: (1) Those established by prior actions of the transit system such as service planning, scheduling and work force planning; (2) Those that change daily. Both have service delivery and/or financial implications. Opportunities exist to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of extraboard management. Current computerized methods, primarily focused on making the process more efficient, can be building blocks to structure more effective decision making.

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• Authors:
  • MacDorman, L C
• Publication Date: 1985-6

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures;
• Pagination: 38 p.
• Serial:
  • NCTRP Synthesis of Transit Practice
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0732-1856

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Absenteeism; Decision making; Extraboards; Information processing; Labor agreements; Management; Operating costs; Supervision; Transit operators; Work rules
• Old TRIS Terms: Operating strategies
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00451141
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Nov 30 1988 12:00AM