COMPUTER-CONTROLLED VERSUS COMPUTER-AIDED DISPATCHING

The city of Regina, Saskatchewan, instituted demand- responsive transit on a very limited budget. The author describes the training program designed for the system's initial personnel, who worked without computer assistance, and notes the benefits of the computer programs that are now in use. /Author/

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  • Publication of this paper sponsored by Committee on Urban Transport Service Innovations (Paratransit) and Task Force for Conference on Demand-Responsive Transportation Systems and Other Paratransit Services. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
• Authors:
  • McAdoo, G H
• Publication Date: 1976

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: pp 86-88
• Monograph Title: Demand-responsive transportation systems and other paratransit services
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 608
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefits; Computer programs; Control; Demand responsive transportation; Dispatching; Information processing; Paratransit services; Urban areas
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00156116
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309025834
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Aug 4 1981 12:00AM