Microcomputers in Transportation Education and Training
Microcomputer methods for transportation planning, engineering, and management are changing transportation education in universities and training programs for professionals. This paper...
Improved Management and Training in Public Transit
This paper presents a user-friendly, interactive method that can be used by transit managers to improve service efficiency and productivity. Using this method for evaluating operating...
Reporting Systems for Rural Transportation Operators
This paper describes the development, testing and implementation of a microcomputer rural transportation reporting system. The project was initiated by the Tennessee Department of Transportation...
Transit Personnel Management Using a Microcomputer Issues and Lessons
This paper discusses the design and implementation issues facing developers of microcomputer-based personnel management systems (PMS) at small and medium-sized transit agencies. A case...
Multi-Agency Transit Financial Planning System
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (the regional transportation planning agency for the San Francisco Bay Area) had early success in applying microcomputers to certain transit...
Simple Cost Projections for Short Range Transit Plans
San Francisco has found microcomputer spreadsheets a useful tool in preparing simple transit operating cost projections. This paper describes the City's first series of templates...
The Transit Industry Microcomputer Exchange Support Center
The Transit Industry Microcomputer Exchange Support Center has been in existence for nearly three years. This paper describes the reasons for establishing the center, its current activities,...
Future Support Center Policy
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has a strong tradition of providing technology transfer and technical assistance to State and local agencies in all areas of transportation engineering...
Downloading and Micro-Analysis of Data
The microcomputer is ideal for ad hoc analysis while the mainframe is better for storing data. Downloading data from a mainframe computer to a PC takes advantage of the strengths of both...
Electronic Field Data Collection for Public Transit
From daily routine tasks like accounting and maintenance management, to complex forecasting models, microcomputers have joined mainframes and minis as powerful analytical tools. Unfortunately,...
Queueing Applications for Stop Sign Operation
A pair of programs has been developed as a teaching tool to illustrate the application of simple queueing principles to transportation problems as taught in an introductory course in Transportation...
Signal Software Engineering Tool or Black Box
This paper is intended to point out some of the many possible pitfalls ready to catch the unsuspecting traffic engineer who utilizes the microcomputer. The tremendous benefits of microcomputer...
A Microcomputer Based Street Inventory System
Maintaining a Roadway Inventory Management System, or any inventory system, is an ongoing problem for many agencies. The filing cabinet system is clumsy and time consuming. Mainframe computer...
Traffic Safety and Operations Technology Transfer Applications
The Institute of Transportation Studies, through its Technology Transfer Program, is engaged in several microcomputer projects related to traffic operations and safety, and technical support...
A Freeway Simulation Program for Microcomputers
An interactive, menu driven macroscopic freeway simulation program with graphic capabilities is presented in this paper. In addition to the employment of personal computers the program...
Traffic Signal System Information Management Using a Microcomputer Based Record Keeping Program
This paper presents various aspects of traffic signal system management using a special purpose microcomputer based information and record keeping program. The paper presents a brief background,...
TRANSYT 7F Applications on a Microcomputer
This paper describes the results of work undertaken by Michigan State University Civil Engineering graduate students as part of two separate class projects. Significant support was provided...
Assessment of Software for Traffic Signal Analysis
The main objectives of this paper were to conduct an up-to-date comprehensive inventory of traffic signal analysis software, select pertinent programs that operate under the MS-DOS environment,...
ITDS: A Data Base Driven Interface to Traffic Models Using a Microcomputer
The author presents a system which solves many traffic control problems. The Integrated Traffic Data System (ITDS) is a set of microcomputer programs which provides an easy-to-use interface...
Development of Micro Programs for the New HCM
The Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) is one of the most basic references in highway and traffic engineering. The first edition was published in 1950, in response to a need for consistent...
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