Program of the
Center for Urban
Transportation Research at the
University of South Florida
Creative Ways to Manage Paratransit Costs
As communities continue to move toward providing a wide range
of public transportation services – often referred to as the
“family of services” – one common concern is the rising costs of
providing services, specifically those falling under the
paratransit umbrella. The purpose of this project was to define
types of paratransit services and their characteristics,
document major paratransit expense factors and their trends, and
identify and document best practices in paratransit cost
containment. More
8.20.08
Guidelines for Incorporating Multimodal Considerations into
Development of Regional Impact Review Process
This report, Guidelines and
Performance Measures to Incorporate Transit and Other Multimodal
Considerations into the FDOT DRI Review Process,
supplements the instructions for performing Development of
Regional Impact (DRI) reviews in the “Site Impact Handbook” with specific
guidance on incorporating transit and other multimodal strategies in the
DRI review process directed to FDOT staff and consultants.
More
8.8.08
Developing Prototype Location Aware Mobile Phone Applications to
Influence Travel Behavior
NCTR released the following
reports of a three-phase research study that focused on
developing prototype applications using
global positioning system enabled mobile phones to better
understand household travel patterns and influence travel
behavior.
Testing the Impact of
Personalized Feedback on Household Travel Behavior (TRAC-IT
Phase 2)
Smart Phone Application to
Influence Travel Behavior (TRAC-IT Phase 3)
6.9.08
Journal of Public Transportation
Volume 11, No
2, 2008
of
the Journal of Public Transportation is now available. You can
view the
Abstracts
of these articles, click on the links
below for the full text version of the article or
obtain a full
text version of this issue.
Impacts
of Transit Benefits Programs on Transit Agency
Ridership, Revenues, and Costs
Liisa Ecola, RAND Corporation, and
Michael Grant, ICF International
Bus Rapid Transit Identity:
An Overview of Current "Branding" Practice
Daniel Baldwin Hess, University at Buffalo, and Alex Bitterman,
Rochester Institute of Technology
Valuing Transit Service
Quality Improvements
Todd Litman, Victoria Transport Policy Institute
Hazardous Bus Stop
Identification: An Illustration Using GIS
Srinivas S. Pulugurtha, The University of North
Carolina at Charlotte, and Vinay K. Vanapalli, Stantec Consulting Inc.
Modeling Participation and Consumption in
the Greek Interurban Public Transportation Market
Theodore Tsekeris, Centre for Planning and Economic Research (KEPE)
Athens, Greece, and Loukas Dimitriou, National Technical University of Athens
Submission
information or
Subscriptions
requests
7.07.08
Flow - Newsletter of the National Center for
Transit Research

Volume
2, Issue No. 1 of Flow,
the National Center for Transit Research's new newsletter, is
now available. In this issue:
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NCTR hosts National
GIS in Transit conference
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Veolia
Transportation and NCTR team up to train transit managers
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NCTR students
receive APTA Foundation scholarships
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Journal of Public
Transportation issues special TDM edition
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NCTR 2007 Student of
the Year
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Toolbox for transit
event investigation developed
4.9.08
What's New in Transit Research in 2008
Prior Year Additions to NCTR Website
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Transit Extraboard Management - Optimum Sizing & Strategies
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Designing Bus Transfer Facilities for Maximum Transit
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