Review of Urban Transit Systems in Alabama

The objective of this project was to perform a pilot review of selected urban transit systems currently operating in Alabama with guidance from the "Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual." Using this document, transit quality of service levels can be obtained for six unique aspects of service. A preliminary case study of the transit systems in Birmingham, Huntsville, and Tuscaloosa was performed to determine the level of service (LOS) offered in each community. The results of this study indicate that some of the measures are difficult to obtain without large expenditures and all the measure are passenger focused, neglecting the operator’s constraints. It was recommended that the existing methodology be expanded to include an aggregated transit LOS-based assessment method that takes under consideration a variety of important transit system performance measures simultaneously and produces an overall LOS grade for each transit route considered.

• Record URL:
  • http://utca.eng.ua.edu/research/projects/?id=05319
• Record URL:
  • https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/39101
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This research was funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Alabama, Huntsville

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  Huntsville, AL  United States  35899

  University Transportation Center for Alabama

  University of Alabama
  Tuscaloosa, AL  United States  35487
• Authors:
  • Anderson, Michael David
  • Berryman, Roy
  • Jones Jr, Steven L
  • Sisiopiku, Virginia P
• Publication Date: 2007-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: 14p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Level of service; Performance measurement; Public transit; Quality of service; Routes; Urban transit
• Geographic Terms: Birmingham (Alabama); Huntsville (Alabama); Tuscaloosa (Alabama)
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01053631
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: UTCA Report 05319
• Contract Numbers: DTSR0023424
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 18 2007 3:36PM