Smart Jitney/Community-Enhanced Transit Systems

Adding a new, door-to-door, route-deviation, microbus service to your existing transit-paratransit-ridesharing system could increase your ridership and farebox recovery rates significantly. Market research in the Seattle-Tacoma area for the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) by the University of Washington found that new, door-to-door, route-deviation, microbus services -- also known as (aka) “Smart Jitney”, single-trip carpool and dynamic ridesharing services – could attract large numbers of commuters out of their Single-Occupant Vehicles (SOVs) and reduce congestion significantly. Furthermore, the wireless telecommunications infrastructure required to implement Smart Jitney services and to integrate them with existing transit-paratransit and ridesharing modes, in a cost-effective manner, are now being installed throughout the world for a wide variety of other transportation and non-transportation applications. In fact, towns, cities and counties across the U.S. are now installing mesh networks to provide low-cost, wireless-Internet services for almost anyone who lives, works or visits there. This paper will explore how low-cost, multi-purpose mesh networks can create Smart Jitney/Community Systems that can solve a variety of transportation and other problems at a low cost to both users and taxpayers. Smart Jitney/Community-Enhanced Transit Systems can also help the U.S. (and other countries) realize and even broaden some of the original visions of the USDOT leaders who established the Intelligent Vehicle-Highway System (IVHS) program – now known as the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) program, in the early 1990s.

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  American Public Transportation Association

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• Authors:
  • Woodworth, Park
  • Behnke, Robert W
• Conference:
  • 2006 Bus and Paratransit Conference
  • Location: Orange County California, United States
  • Date: 2006-4-30 to 2006-5-3
• Publication Date: 2006

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: References;
• Pagination: 9p
• Monograph Title: Bus & Paratransit Conference Proceedings, April 29-May 3, 2006, Orange County, CA

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Intelligent transportation systems; Jitney service; Paratransit services; Public transit; Ridership; Ridesharing; Single occupant vehicles; Wireless communication systems
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transit services
• Geographic Terms: Seattle (Washington); Tacoma (Washington)
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01036640
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 1931594201
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 1 2006 7:28AM