Choosing Smart Technologies: A Guide for Busy Rural Paratransit Operators

This manual attempts to address the needs of rural paratransit operators through the use of smart technology. Questions asked, and answered, in the manual include: 1. What are our primary needs and concerns? 2.What technologies can address these concerns? 3. What kind of information does a small transit property need in acquiring technologies? 4. What are the costs involved? 5. Is the technology worth the investment? 6. Are there other ways of accessing the technology without having each property purchase it individually? 7. How do we select a vendor or integrator? and 8. What are possible funding sources?

• Record URL:
  http://www.intrans.iastate.edu/reports/rural_paratransit.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Transportation's University Transportation Centers Program and the Iowa Department of Transportation in the interest of information exchange.
• Corporate Authors:

  Iowa State University, Ames

  2711 South Loop Drive
  Suite 4700
  Ames, IA  United States  50010-8664

  Midwest Transportation Center

  Iowa State University, 2521 Elwood Drive, Suite 125
  Ames, IA  United States  50010

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

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  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Kihl, Mary
  • Crum, Michael
  • Shin, Duane
• Publication Date: 1996-9-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Bibliography; Figures; Photos; Tables;
• Pagination: 71p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; Decision making; Financing; Manuals; Needs assessment; Paratransit services; Rural transit; Technology; Transit operators
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01421297
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: UTC, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 24 2012 9:46AM