General Transit

General Transit
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Designing Printed Transit Information Materials - A Guidebook for Transit Service Providers FDOT: Project Manager: Tara Bartee Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR): Alasdair Cain William P. Morris Mark Mistretta NOTE: This item is only available for checkout	Synopsis: Printed transit information materials are the mainstay of every transit agency’s service information strategy. System maps, route maps, and schedules are the traditional means for providing service information to transit users. This guidebook is part of a growing interest in the development of industry standards in information material design. The guidebook and supplementary Technical Memorandum may also be found at www.nctr.usf.edu/abstracts/abs77710.htm
TCRP Report 75: The Role of the Private-for-Hire Vehicle Industry in Public Transit Gilbert, Gorman, Cook, Thomas J, Nalevanko, Anna, Everett-Lee, Lynn; 2002 Call Number: HQ1100.GT-Pub 2002	This report describes the types of public transit service being provided by private-for-hire-vehicles (PHVs) and categorizes such services. This report is published in two parts. The first part documents the results of a national survey of PHVs. The results of this survey indicate a continuing trend toward diversification of PHV operators, a size distribution skewed toward smaller operations, heavy reliance on independent contractor drivers, and a high incidence of contracting (particularly among taxicab operators). The second part of the report summarizes eight case studies and draws conclusions from the analysis of these case studies.
Coordinating Transportation: Models of Cooperative Arrangements The Community Transportation Assistance Project; National Easter Seal Project Call Number: HQ1100.GT-Pub	Transportation coordination can improve people's ability to get to health care, jobs, and needed services by improving the effectiveness and efficiency of a community's transportation system. Over two decades of experience with transportation coordination has shown that it a cost-effective and efficient method for ensuring accessibility.
Reverse Commute Transportation: Emerging Provider Roles Rosenbloom, Sandra and Drachman Institute, University of Arizona; 1992 Call Number: HQ1100.GT-Pub 1992	This study reports the findings of a small FTA funded study designed to identify and briefly evaluate both historical and modern reverse commute experiments and projects. In particular the study was devised to meet three objectives: to identify the socio-economic and geographic conditions which create markets for reverse commute services in local communities; to describe and compare methods of providing home-to-work services for inner city residents employed, or seeking employment, in suburban; to evaluate the conditions under which various moderns or reverse commute services, and alternative provides, do or could have long term viability.
Transit Research Abstracts, Volume 11: 1993 Urban Mass Transportation Research Information Service; 1993 Call Number: HQ1100.GT-Pub 1993	Transit research abstract is an annual publication that features abstracts and research project summaries on planning, designing, financing, constructing, operating, maintaining, managing and marketing all modes of public transit.
Celebrating Excellence in Public Transit Utah Transit Authority; 1993 Call Number: HQ1100.GT-Pub 1993	The purpose of the grant included: Identify and showcase pockets of excellence in the transit industry. Product and make available to the industry of media piece celebrating transit excellence and providing a call to action for the industry to pursue innovation and excellence. Produce and make available to the industry print materials outlining the research and enabling communication between properties, agencies and authorities regarding their efforts to excel.
Commuting Alternatives in the United States: Recent Trends and A Look to The Future Ball, William; 1994 Call Number: HQ1100.GT-Pub 1994	Changing demographic and travel behavior characteristics have resulted in significant challenges for transportation decisionmakers, planners, and practitioners throughout the U.S. Efforts to meet these challenges have had varying degrees of success and/or failure and, as we look to the future, it appears that dealing with existing and evolving transportation needs will only become more difficult. Commuting in the U.S. has evolved substantially over the past several decades, from the more traditional commute with a majority of destinations in the central business district to new travel patterns where commuting from suburb has grown to be a dominant commuting pattern. This report was prepared to assist in developing a thorough understanding of recent trends in commuting alternatives in the U.S.
Assessing Travel Behavior by Blacks in the United States: A New Perspective Hill, Eric; 1994 Call Number: HQ1100.GT-Pub 1994	This paper provides analysis of the 1983 and 1990 NPTS databases. Data presented here represents research by the CUTR assessing travel behavior by Blacks. It is also part of the NUTI research program at CUTR. The assessment of travel behavior by Blacks in the US showed that all four indicators of travel (vehicle trips, vehicle miles of travel, person trips, and person miles of travel) increased between 1983 and 1990.
Doing more with less: effectively using volunteers in the Florida TD Programs Hardin, Jennifer; Florida Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged; 1996 Call Number: HQ1100.GT-Pub 1996	The use of volunteers in transportation programs is not a new concept. Many transportation programs in the United States currently rely completely or partially on volunteer labor to provide community transportation. Although volunteer transportation programs are not free, the cost savings realized by using volunteers can be significant.
Transit Demonstration Projects that Made a Difference Office of Research, Demonstration and Innovation; 1996 Call Number: HQ1100.GT-Pub 1996	This report describes selected examples of demonstration projects that have made a difference in the lives of those who use, operate, plan and finance public transportation. They show that governments at the Federal, state and local levels can collaborate successfully with they private sector in improving the welfare of those who use public transit.
TCRP Report 22: The Role of Transit in Creating Livable Metropolitan Communities Texas Transportation Institute; 1997 Call Number: HQ1100.GT-Pub 1997	This report describes transit's increasingly important role in improving the livability of communities. Concerns about livability affect every community: inner cities, suburbs, small towns, and rural areas. The report explores a 'place-making' approach where a local community, working in partnership with a transit agency, plans and implements neighborhood-scale projects and programs that are mutually supportive of community livability and transit ridership goals.
TCRP Synthesis 36: Identifying and Reducing Fraudulent Third Party Tort Claims Against Public Transit Agencies Maier, M. Patricia; 2000 Call Number: HQ1100.GT-Pub 2000	This synthesis will be of interest to transit agency general managers, supervisors, and staff dealing with legal services and risk management issues, as well as to consultants that work with them. It describes those practices in place at public transit agencies to prevent and respond to third party fraudulent claims, including a review of salient aspects of the public transit claims process in the context of managing current and partial tort liability. It examines the level of claims, presents a structured methodology for approaching the fraudulent claims issue, and describes practices that have been implemented to reduce claims abuse. The emphasis is on strategies that organizations have adopted to counter insurance fraud.
TCRP Annual Report of Progress 2001 Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP); 2001 Call Number: HQ1100.GT-Pub 2001	Introduction, How TCRP Programs Are Formulated, Research Program, Financing the Program, How the TCRP is Organized to Administer Research Programs, Project Panels, How the Projects Are Placed Under Contract, Monitoring Research in Progress, Promoting Dissemination and Application of Research Results, Current Status, Accomplishments--Inception to Present, FY 2002 Program, Policies on Bias and Conflict of Interest, Summary, Publications of the Transit Cooperative Research Program, Summary of Project Status, Summary of Projects J-4, J-5, J-6, J-7 Status, New Projects and Continuations, Notice to Readers, How to Order.
NCHRP Legal Research Digest 47: Judicial Enforcement of Variable Speed Limits Transportation Research Board; 2002 Call Number: HQ1100.GT-Pub 2002	This report examines the impact of judicial decisions and judicial enforcement on the likely success of enforcing an expanded variable speed limit program. It should be useful to administrators, attorneys, traffic enforcement officials, planners, officials involved in agency rulemaking, and motorists.