Improvements to the Public Passenger Transportation Sector by Means of the Extensive Deployment of EDP Supported Procedures

A current EDP research and development project, sponsored by the West German Ministry of Research and Technology is called the BISON project, which stands for operational control and information systems for the public transport sector. This paper describes how the main objective of the BISON project is to improve economic efficiency. Economic efficiency, first, with regard to reducing the development and procurement costs for the BISON software products, and second, with regard to maximizing cost savings by deployment of the BISON components. The benefits gained by using the BISON components must be greater than the expenditure that is required for their procurement.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of British Columbia, Vancouver

  Centre for Transportation Studies
  Vancouver, British Columbia  Canada  V6T 1W5
• Authors:
  • Kaufhold, Heinz
• Conference:
  • Research for Tomorrow's Transport Requirements. Proceedings of the Fourth World Conference on Transport Research
  • Location: Vancouver British Columbia, Canada
  • Date: 1986-5-0 to 1986-5-0
• Publication Date: 1986

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Pagination: pp 109-117
• Monograph Title: Research for Tomorrow’s Transport Requirements

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus transit; Bus transit operations; Bus transportation; Economic development; Economic factors; Economics; Passenger transportation; Procurement; Public transit; Transit operating agencies
• Geographic Terms: Germany
• Subject Areas: Economics; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01082465
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 18 2007 11:29AM