CONTINUOUS ON-BUS SURVEYS

This report describes how the surveys are carried out, the information which they provide, and how well they meet the defined objectives: to provide regular statistics of passenger carryings in each of the executive's operating districts; to facilitate the allocation of revenue to districts, garages and routes; to enable accurate monitoring of the effects of fare increases and service revisions; to provide information on route loadings, origins and destinations of passengers, and to produce load factor and "value for money" indices; to monitor changes in the value of journeys made by travelcard holders, old age pensioners, etc; to enable the construction of models to simulate the effects of pursuing alternative strategies. (TRRL)

• Corporate Authors:

  West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive

  Field Survey Unit, 16 Summer Lane
  Birmingham, West Midlands,   England 
• Publication Date: 1978-5-10

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 29 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus routes; Cost allocation; Data collection; Marketing; Onboard navigational aids; Origin and destination; Revenues; Ridership; Statistics; Surveys
• Old TRIS Terms: Allocations; On board
• ITRD Terms: 8623: Data acquisition; 8655: Data processing; 8673: Digital computer; 263: Economics of transport; 9147: Interview; 653: Level of service; 9102: Method; 687: Origin destination traffic; 744: Public transport; 6555: Statistics; 241: Tariff; 676: Traffic survey; 8119: United Kingdom; 9084: Use; 1715: Vehicle occupant
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00458716
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 28 2004 3:54AM