EMERGENCE OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS AS A TRANSIT PLANNING TOOL

With one of the world's most extensive transit systems, New York City was an early user of geographic information systems (GIS) to query, display, and summarize its operations data. This synopsis lists the current and planned GIS applications for planning and decision making for New York City Transit. This synopsis appears in a compendium of conference papers.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Additional support was provided by the Puget Sound Regional Council and King County, Washington.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  Washington State Department of Transportation

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  Olympia, WA  United States  98504-7300
• Authors:
  • Newhouser, R J
  • Barry, J J
• Conference:
  • Fifth National Conference on Transportation Planning Methods Applications-Volume II: A Compendium of Papers Based on a Conference Held in Seattle, Washington in April 1995
  • Location: Seattle, Washington
  • Date: 1995-4-17 to 1995-4-21
• Publication Date: 1995-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 1p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Applications; Decision making; Geographic information systems; Operations; Planning; Public transit
• Geographic Terms: New York (New York)
• Old TRIS Terms: Operations planning
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Research;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00713783
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Nov 21 1995 12:00AM