BUS OPERATOR SELECTION SURVEY MANUAL

For the past two decades, the transportation industry has operated in an environment of diminishing public funding, escalating costs, and declining ridership; all of which contribute to shortfalls in available income for this vital service. Improved selection techniques that screen out undesirable drivers and select applicants with the potential for lower absenteeism rates and safer driving habits should result in more cost-effective operations. This identified potential predictors and developed meaningful criterion measures to assess the validity of a variety of measures that might aid in the forecasting of job performance for a sample of 864 bus operators representing 9 bus properties from across the United States and Canada.

• Corporate Authors:

  American Public Transportation Association

  1201 New York Avenue, NW
  Washington, DC    20005

  Federal Transit Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1996

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 30 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Absenteeism; Bus drivers; Performance; Personnel performance; Selection and appointment
• Uncontrolled Terms: Performance indicators; Selection
• Old TRIS Terms: Operator performance
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Public Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00726698
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Federal Transit Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: FTA-DC-20-2043-96-1
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Oct 2 1996 12:00AM