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Matthew Dickens - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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APTA 2013 Public Transportation Fact Book
2013Co-Authors: John Neff, Matthew DickensAbstract:This is the 64th edition of the APTA Public Transportation Fact Book. It includes only Public Transportation data for the United States (and some data for Canada), with data based on the annual National Transit Database report published by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), and supplemented with American Public Transportation Association (APTA) special surveys, covering every aspect of Public Transportation. It presents statistics describing the entire United States transit industry for 2011. The major headings listed in the table of contents include: National Data Summary; Passenger Travel; Service Provided; Modal Shares of Service Provided and Consumed; Customer Information Systems; Vehicles; Infrastructure; Passenger Station Parking; Employees; Energy and Environment; Safety; Capital and Operating Expenses; Capital and Operating Funding; Modal Data (Bus and Trolleybus, Paratransit, Ferryboat, Rail, Vanpool); Intercity Passenger Rail; Canadian Data; APTA Association History; and Milestones in Public Transportation and High-Speed Rail.
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APTA 2012 Public Transportation Fact Book
2012Co-Authors: Matthew Dickens, John Neff, Darnell GrisbyAbstract:This is the 63rd edition of the APTA Public Transportation Fact Book. It includes only Public Transportation data for the United States (and some data for Canada), with data based on the annual National Transit Database report published by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), and supplemented with American Public Transportation Association (APTA) special surveys, covering every aspect of Public Transportation. It presents statistics describing the entire United States transit industry for 2011. The major headings listed in the table of contents include: National Summary; Historic Events in Public Transportation; Passengers; Service Provided; Vehicles; Infrastructure; Passenger Station Parking; Employees; Energy and Environment; Safety; Capital and Operating Expenses; Capital and Operating Funding; Modal Data (Bus and Trolleybus, Paratransit, Ferryboat, Rail, Vanpool); Intercity Rail; and Canadian Data.
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APTA 2011 Public Transportation Fact Book
2011Co-Authors: Matthew Dickens, John NeffAbstract:This is the 62nd edition of the APTA Public Transportation Fact Book. It includes only Public Transportation data for the United States (and some data for Canada), with data based on the annual National Transit Database report published by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), and supplemented with American Public Transportation Association (APTA) special surveys, covering every aspect of Public Transportation. It presents statistics describing the entire United States transit industry for 2009. The major headings listed in the table of contents include: Introduction; Methodology; National Summary; Passengers; Service Provided; Vehicles; Employees; Energy and Environment; Safety; Capital and Operating Expenses; Capital and Operating Funding; Modal Data (Bus and Trolleybus, Paratransit, Ferryboat, Rail, Vanpool); and Canadian Data.
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APTA 2010 Public Transportation Fact Book
2010Co-Authors: Matthew Dickens, John NeffAbstract:This is the 61st edition of the APTA Public Transportation Fact Book. It includes only Public Transportation data for the United States (and some data for Canada), with data based on the annual National Transit Database report published by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), and supplemented with American Public Transportation Association (APTA) special surveys, covering every aspect of Public Transportation. The major headings listed in the table of contents include: Introduction; Methodology; National Summary; Passengers; Service Provided; Vehicles; Employees; Energy and Environment; Safety; Capital and Operating Expenses; Capital and Operating Funding; Modal Data (Bus and Trolleybus, Paratransit, Ferryboat, Rail, Vanpool); and Canadian Data. The Public Transportation Fact Book is being published in three parts. This is the first part.
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APTA 2009 Public Transportation Fact Book
2009Co-Authors: John Neff, Matthew DickensAbstract:This is the 60th edition of the APTA Public Transportation Fact Book. It includes only Public Transportation data for the United States (and some data for Canada), with data based on the annual National Transit Database report published by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), and supplemented with American Public Transportation Association (APTA) special surveys, covering every aspect of Public Transportation. The major headings listed in the table of contents include: Introduction; Methodology; National Summary; Passengers; Service Provided; Vehicles; Employees; Energy and Environment; Safety; Capital and Operating Expenses; Capital and Operating Funding; Modal Data (Bus and Trolleybus, Paratransit, Ferryboat, Rail, Vanpool); and Canadian Data. The Public Transportation Fact Book is being published in three parts. This is the first part.
John Neff - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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APTA 2013 Public Transportation Fact Book
2013Co-Authors: John Neff, Matthew DickensAbstract:This is the 64th edition of the APTA Public Transportation Fact Book. It includes only Public Transportation data for the United States (and some data for Canada), with data based on the annual National Transit Database report published by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), and supplemented with American Public Transportation Association (APTA) special surveys, covering every aspect of Public Transportation. It presents statistics describing the entire United States transit industry for 2011. The major headings listed in the table of contents include: National Data Summary; Passenger Travel; Service Provided; Modal Shares of Service Provided and Consumed; Customer Information Systems; Vehicles; Infrastructure; Passenger Station Parking; Employees; Energy and Environment; Safety; Capital and Operating Expenses; Capital and Operating Funding; Modal Data (Bus and Trolleybus, Paratransit, Ferryboat, Rail, Vanpool); Intercity Passenger Rail; Canadian Data; APTA Association History; and Milestones in Public Transportation and High-Speed Rail.
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APTA 2012 Public Transportation Fact Book
2012Co-Authors: Matthew Dickens, John Neff, Darnell GrisbyAbstract:This is the 63rd edition of the APTA Public Transportation Fact Book. It includes only Public Transportation data for the United States (and some data for Canada), with data based on the annual National Transit Database report published by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), and supplemented with American Public Transportation Association (APTA) special surveys, covering every aspect of Public Transportation. It presents statistics describing the entire United States transit industry for 2011. The major headings listed in the table of contents include: National Summary; Historic Events in Public Transportation; Passengers; Service Provided; Vehicles; Infrastructure; Passenger Station Parking; Employees; Energy and Environment; Safety; Capital and Operating Expenses; Capital and Operating Funding; Modal Data (Bus and Trolleybus, Paratransit, Ferryboat, Rail, Vanpool); Intercity Rail; and Canadian Data.
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APTA 2011 Public Transportation Fact Book
2011Co-Authors: Matthew Dickens, John NeffAbstract:This is the 62nd edition of the APTA Public Transportation Fact Book. It includes only Public Transportation data for the United States (and some data for Canada), with data based on the annual National Transit Database report published by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), and supplemented with American Public Transportation Association (APTA) special surveys, covering every aspect of Public Transportation. It presents statistics describing the entire United States transit industry for 2009. The major headings listed in the table of contents include: Introduction; Methodology; National Summary; Passengers; Service Provided; Vehicles; Employees; Energy and Environment; Safety; Capital and Operating Expenses; Capital and Operating Funding; Modal Data (Bus and Trolleybus, Paratransit, Ferryboat, Rail, Vanpool); and Canadian Data.
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APTA 2010 Public Transportation Fact Book
2010Co-Authors: Matthew Dickens, John NeffAbstract:This is the 61st edition of the APTA Public Transportation Fact Book. It includes only Public Transportation data for the United States (and some data for Canada), with data based on the annual National Transit Database report published by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), and supplemented with American Public Transportation Association (APTA) special surveys, covering every aspect of Public Transportation. The major headings listed in the table of contents include: Introduction; Methodology; National Summary; Passengers; Service Provided; Vehicles; Employees; Energy and Environment; Safety; Capital and Operating Expenses; Capital and Operating Funding; Modal Data (Bus and Trolleybus, Paratransit, Ferryboat, Rail, Vanpool); and Canadian Data. The Public Transportation Fact Book is being published in three parts. This is the first part.
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APTA 2009 Public Transportation Fact Book
2009Co-Authors: John Neff, Matthew DickensAbstract:This is the 60th edition of the APTA Public Transportation Fact Book. It includes only Public Transportation data for the United States (and some data for Canada), with data based on the annual National Transit Database report published by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), and supplemented with American Public Transportation Association (APTA) special surveys, covering every aspect of Public Transportation. The major headings listed in the table of contents include: Introduction; Methodology; National Summary; Passengers; Service Provided; Vehicles; Employees; Energy and Environment; Safety; Capital and Operating Expenses; Capital and Operating Funding; Modal Data (Bus and Trolleybus, Paratransit, Ferryboat, Rail, Vanpool); and Canadian Data. The Public Transportation Fact Book is being published in three parts. This is the first part.
Ssu Yun Chen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Perceived accessibility, mobility, and connectivity of Public Transportation systems
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2015Co-Authors: Yung Hsiang Cheng, Ssu Yun ChenAbstract:Although Public Transportation is considered effective at reducing the external cost of driving private vehicles, many urbanites do not use Public Transportation. This study develops measures employing accessibility, mobility, and seamless connectivity for an entire Public Transportation service chain as indicators for evaluating Public transport services, prioritizes underperforming scenarios from the perspective of urban travelers, and derives various market segmentation strategies that consider different socio-demographic characteristics. A conceptual model is set up herein to assess these latent constructs that describe unobservable and immeasurable characteristics. As a Likert ordinal scale can generate misleading statistical inferences, the Rasch model is used to eliminate bias generated by an ordinal scale when measuring these three latent constructs separately. The Rasch model compares person parameters with item parameters, which are then subjected to logarithmic transformation along a logit scale so as to recognize specific difficulties of service scenarios that cannot be easily eliminated by certain urban travelers. The multidimensional Rasch model also measures the perceptions of urban travelers in terms of the interactions between accessibility, mobility, and seamless connectivity of this Public Transportation system. While comparing urban travelers of two large cities in Taiwan, Taipei and Kaohsiung, the empirical results demonstrate that perceived accessibility, mobility, and seamless connectivity differ based on travelers' age, frequency of weekly sports activities, and environmental awareness. This paper also advances appropriate improvement strategies and provides policy suggestions for urban planners, Public Transportation service operation agencies, and policy makers when they seek to create user-friendly Public Transportation services. The proposed approach can be generalized in other cities by considering their local context uniqueness and further evaluating their Public transport services.
Otman Basir - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Analyzing Public Transportation mobility data for networking purposes
2017 IEEE 25th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2017Co-Authors: Kais Elmurtadi Suleiman, Otman BasirAbstract:Utilizing vehicles for networking purposes has always been a challenge. This is mainly due to the minimum density of connected-vehicles required. The locations of these vehicles should be shareable and reasonably predictable for efficient position-based routing protocols to be implemented. Their Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication cooperation should be well-incentivized for efficient networking to be realized. Regular vehicles struggle to have all of these properties. Public Transportation vehicles, on the other hand, are well-positioned in this regard; their number is proportional to the number of city residents while being uniformly distributed throughout the day, their locations have no privacy concerns while being highly predictable and their V2V communication cooperation is easily enforceable by the single administration authority they usually have. With efficient networking, Public Transportation vehicles can become the reliable communication backbone for other vehicle categories. In order to investigate their networking potential, we present for the firs time, in this paper, a data analysis study of realistic Public Transportation mobility datasets representing the Grand River Transit bus service offered throughout the Region of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. We show both the data preprocessing and processing phases. The processing phase is mainly based on discovering bus groups using hierarchical clustering. This is done while varying the minimum degree of intra-cluster connectivity and the maximum intra-cluster communication range. Based on this data analysis approach, we show the promising networking potential of Public Transportation vehicles and provide design guidelines for future networking solutions utilizing them.
John N Balog - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Public Transportation Security: Volume 7: Public Transportation Emergency Mobilization and Emergency Operations Guide
2020Co-Authors: John N Balog, Annabelle Boyd, Jim Caton, Peter Bromley, Jamie Beth Strongin, David Chia, Kathleen BagdonasAbstract:This seventh volume of TCRP Report 86, "Public Transportation Security," has been developed to highlight key considerations for Public Transportation agencies working with their local communities to enhance mobilization capabilities. It provides recommendations and tools based on an extensive research effort conducted with Public Transportation systems; local, state and federal emergency planning agencies; and first responders around the country. It describes activities that may be taken by Public Transportation systems to: promote early recognition of emergency events that have the potential to overwhelm the capabilities of the Transportation system to respond and that require activation of available local and mutual aid resources; expedite response to an emergency event occurring on Transportation-system property by promoting the rapid deployment of personnel and equipment to address, manage, and resolve the event; coordinate the application and integration of additional organized, qualified resources from other agencies (e.g., regional, state, and federal) in response to a major emergency; and ensure that Public Transportation resources are available to support the response to emergency events occurring in the Transportation system's service area and that these resources can be effectively integrated into an extended program for both response and recovery. This report will be of interest to transit general managers; transit emergency-response, law-enforcement, and security officials; and operations, training, and human-resources staffs. It will also be of interest to federal, state, and local emergency-response and emergency-management representatives.
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Public Transportation Emergency Mobilization Guide: Appendix B--Survey of U.S. Public Transportation Systems
2005Co-Authors: John N BalogAbstract:This document includes additional information on the survey used as input on TCRP Report 86, "Public Transportation Security: Volume 7: Public Transportation Emergency Mobilization and Emergency Operations Guide." TCRP Report 86 examines actions that may be taken by Public Transportation agencies working with their local communities to promote the early recognition of emergency events, expedite response to emergency events, establish multi-agency coordination, and ensure that Public Transportation resources are available to support the response to an emergency event.
