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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...

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...

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,...

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...

Basic Considerations for the Planning and Implementation of an Urban Area Traffic Sign and Pavement Marking Microcomputer Based Inventory and Record Keeping System
This paper presents basic concepts and operations which are necessary to put into place a microcomputer based inventory system. The paper briefly examines past experience, discusses microcomputer...

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...

Evaluation of Before and After Traffic Conditions
A microcomputer program to evaluate the before and after traffic conditions of a highway project is described. An overview of the evaluation methodology used in the design of the program...

Applications of Computer Graphics in Traffic Control
Computer models to develop improved designs and traffic management schemes are used more effectively with graphical displays of their results. This paper describes the TRANSYT DISPLAY...

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,...

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...

Low-Cost Accident Data Bases for Small Urban Areas
This paper describes the application of a microcomputer traffic accident data base system developed for Terre Haute, Indiana, a small (pop. 70,000) urbanized area in west central Indiana....

A Microcomputer-Based Safety Management System
An agency's effectiveness in undertaking its highway safety responsibilities is most critically dependent upon the information available and the means provided to access and...

Downloading Accident Data for Local Agency Use
This project was funded by a grant from Van Buren County Road Commission in cooperation with the Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning and the U. S. Department of Transportation,...

Microcomputer Application in Traffic Safety Needs Assessment
'MicroSafety' is software developed to identify accident problem locations and patterns. Alternative projects, costs and benefits are analyzed on common data...

Transit Scheduling With Spreadsheets
In two years, the Anchorage Transit Department has gone from having no microcomputers in use to having ten being used for route scheduling, monitoring ridership figures, maintenance management,...

Accessing the Schedule Data Base
Some of the potentially most significant uses of microcomputers in transit scheduling analysis (i. e. , to take advantage of the user-defined powers of the microcomputer to perform special...

Micro-Computer Rucus?A User's View
In 1973, Centro, a medium-sized transit company, contracted with the firm Ken Roberts & Associates (KRA) to implement a RUCUS package for the Syracuse area. The package was originally...

 

 

 

 

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