PRODUCING SECTION 15 SERVICE-CONSUMED DATA: CHALLENGE FOR LARGE TRANSIT AUTHORITIES

Large transit authorities encounter many difficulties collecting the operating statistics required for UMTA Section 9 funding. Transit agencies that operate rail and bus systems 24 hours per day, 365 days per year must gather statistics from a universe of riders that is sometimes difficult to capture through UMTA-suggested random sampling. This paper examines how the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is meeting the challenge of collecting Section 15 service-consumed data from a large, dynamic transit system. The CTA method of determining annual unlinked trips and passenger-miles for the bus and rail systems is presented here. This includes the resources required to assign and monitor data collection efforts as well as problems regularly encountered in-the-field by data collection personnel. CTA's stratified rail sampling plan and the needs of large transit systems are discussed along with suggestions for more efficient data gathering techniques.

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• Authors:
  • Foote, Peter J
  • Hancox, William A
• Publication Date: 1989

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 58-64
• Monograph Title: Transit administration and planning research
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1209
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Economic efficiency; Passenger miles; Random sampling; Ridership; Statistics; Transit authorities
• Identifier Terms: Chicago Transit Authority; Urban Mass Transportation Act
• Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency
• Old TRIS Terms: Umta section 15
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00491228
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309048052
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 28 1990 12:00AM