SUPER COMPUTER FOR MID-SIZED FLEETS

The Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA), chose the 95-bus Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District for its pilot project to show that a relatively inexpensive "supermicrocomputer" can automate many of the management operations of a small public transportation system. The system tracks revenues and ridership figures, processes payroll, enables management to generate and modify bus and driver schedules on a daily basis and fulfills auditors requests for comprehensive parts inventories.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Bobit Publishing Company

  2500 Artesia Boulevard
  Redondo Beach, CA  United States  90278
• Authors:
  • Sparks, B
• Publication Date: 1987-3

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 66-67
• Serial:
  • Metro
  • Volume: 83
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Bobit Publishing Company
  • ISSN: 10098-0083

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus drivers; Buses; Government funding; Information systems; Management; Microcomputers; Pilot studies; Public transit; Scheduling
• Uncontrolled Terms: Payroll
• Old TRIS Terms: Pilot study; Transit management
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Finance; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00471482
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 31 1987 12:00AM