WORKSHOP 4: THE OPERATOR'S ROLE

The purpose of Workshop 4, which viewed the evaluation of urban public transportation from the operator's perspective, was to examine the following 5 basic subject areas: the elderly and the handicapped, manpower, hardware and equipment, financial, and marketing and management. This report of the proceedings of Workshop 4 identified the following research projects as being necessary for an adequate evaluation of urban public transportation: (1) planning and design of mass transportation services to meet mobility needs of the elderly and handicapped; (2) study of the merits and problems of combining some transit, school transportation, and goods movement with transit vehicles; (3) evaluation of the purchase of new transit vehicles via the consideration of new-vehicle quality as measured through vehicle maintenance costs; (4) effectiveness of Federal and/or State operating subsidies for urban public transportation; (5) development of effective marketing disciplines for promotion of use of club buses, subscription bus service, special charter group trips, etc.; (6) effect of car pool promotions on transit; (7) evaluation of fare packaging procedures as a tool for inducing transit ridership and reducing the cost associated with the sale and collection of tickets; (8) use of retired and part-time personnel as transit employees; and (9) human resource and development needs for expanding transit services.

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• Authors:
  • Schnell, John B
• Conference:
  • Conference on the Research Needs for Evaluating Urban Public Transportation
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1974-4-3 to 1974-4-5
• Publication Date: 1975

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: pp 45-46
• Monograph Title: RESEARCH NEEDS FOR EVALUATING URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 155
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Evaluation; Perspective views; Project management; Public transit; Research; Transportation; Transportation planning; Urban transportation; Workshops
• Uncontrolled Terms: Projects
• Old TRIS Terms: Transportation research
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Operations and Traffic Management; Research; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00099245
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Oct 18 1981 12:00AM