NEDS?Network Editing and Display for TRANPLAN
This paper explores some of the current and possible future applications of interactive graphics packages to the tasks of analyzing and planning transportation systems. The source of the...
Transportation Simulation Model Selection Criteria
This paper presents a checklist of questions concerning facets of transportation modeling software packages. This is intended to help the potential software purchaser in his or her search....
Downloading Baltimore Regional Databases
The Regional Planning Council (RPC) now is exploring through trial-and-error, the most effective, efficient means of performing travel demand forecasts cooperatively with its 'clients....
Mapping New York City from the Shelf
Data processing and management information systems are a cornerstone of the operating environment and capabilities of New York City (NYC) agencies. One of the functions that make NYC's...
A Model for Assessing Bus System Service and Fare Changes
This paper describes a performance indicator-based microcomputer spreadsheet model developed for the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) Bus System. The Service Fare Adjustment (SFA) Model...
Computerization of Transit Performance Evaluatio
The Virginia Transit Performance Evaluation Package (VATPEP) has reduced the state's effort in processing information for its annual report on public transportation from over...
Running Rucus II on a Microcomputer
Since the preliminary version of the RUCUS II (Run Cutting and Scheduling System) was released by UMTA in 1982, the system has achieved considerable acceptance by transit properties. These...
Human Factors in a Bus Route Monitoring System
In 1984 the Maryland Mass Transit Administration began a systemwide route monitoring effort. Data collection was accomplished principally by on-board checkers using laptop Epson microcomputers...
Using Microcomputers for Maintenance Management in a Small Transit Agency
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation, (WISDOT) Bureau of Transit asked a small transit agency to join an UMTA funded project that would perform a needs assessment, locate or develop...
Development of a Statewide System for Routing and Scheduling School Buses
The State of North Carolina is in the first year of installing a Transportation Information Management System (TIMS). This paper describes the events over the past six years which have...
A Microcomputer Storm Sewer Program for Highway Drainage Design
This paper presents results and findings of an ongoing research project on highway drainage sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration through the Virginia Transportation Research...
Microcomputer Applications for Pavements
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has been active in exploring expanded microcomputer applications with the goal of improving efficiency and benefits to the public through reducing...
Developing a Management Maintenance (Roadway Surface) System
The Clackamas County Department of Transportation and Development is responsible for maintaining 1,514 miles of roadway. Clackamas County, Oregon is part of the Portland, Oregon metropolitan...
A Pavement Management System for Cities & Counties
A regional agency, a pavement management consultant and six cities and counties in the San Francisco Bay Area have jointly developed a Pavement Management System (PMS) which runs on a...
Automated Pavement Management Systems for Agencies
This paper presents and assesses a microcomputer software package which has been designed for use in six cities and towns in Massachusetts. The package employs a readily available database...
Facilities Management and Capital Planning Systems
This paper explores the purpose, role, and structure of these systems, showing how micro-computers can be exploited to improve the quality of decision making in capital planning and related...
SCT's Experience with Automated Fleet Management
Sonoma County Transit's (SCT) fleet maintenance program covers all aspects of repair and preventive maintenance, with the exception of major body work. This paper describes...
Maintenance Tracking With a Micro-Mainframe System
This system at Metro-North, called the Equipment Maintenance Information System (EMIS), contains defect/repair data for both scheduled and running repair maintenance. The primary on-line...
Maintenance Management in the National Park Service
De Leuw, Cather & Co. has recently designed and is in the process of implementing a nationwide, automated maintenance management system for the National Park Service (NPS). The...
Seven Myths of Managing Microcomputers
Microcomputer usage in the transportation community has grown so rapidly in recent years that it seems sometimes that we are being overwhelmed, and maybe oversold, by the technology. As...
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