AUTOMATION OF PARATRANSIT FARE COMPUTATION AND DISPATCHING

This paper examines the historical evolution of paratransit services and discusses a generalized fare-calculation system for paratransit operations. The prototype system is designed to reduce or eliminate a number of software and hardware constraints that have hampered the taxi industry's efforts to provide a full spectrum of paratrnsit services. Software constraints are analyzed in terms of regulatory and political processes that have evolved with the taxi industry. Hardware constrains are analyzed in terms of a lack of incentive for product improvement, since at present there is not a sufficient U.S. market for metering and dispatching systems and only a small market for specialized vehicles. In addition, innovations in hardware are hampered by the fact that implementation depends heavily on the relationship between new technologies and existing regulations. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the need and mechanisms for change and to describe a prototype fare-calculation and dispatching system currently being developed at Carnegie-Mellon University. /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:
  • Baumann, Dwight M
  • AU, TUNG
  • Copper, Jack
• Publication Date: 1976

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: pp 93-97
• 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: Calculation; Dispatching; Fares; Paratransit services; Prototypes; Software; Taxicabs
• Uncontrolled Terms: Computation; Hardware
• Old TRIS Terms: Metering
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00156118
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309025834
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Aug 4 1981 12:00AM