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

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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:

• NCTR hosts National GIS in Transit conference

• Veolia Transportation and NCTR team up to train transit managers

• NCTR students receive APTA Foundation scholarships

• Journal of Public Transportation issues special TDM edition

• NCTR 2007 Student of the Year

• Toolbox for transit event investigation developed

4.9.08

What's New in Transit Research in 2008

• Large Bus/Small Bus Decision Support Tool and decision support tool (5/5/08)

• NCTR Strategic Plan Approved by RITA (3/14/08)

• Exploration of a Shift in Household Transportation Spending from Vehicles to Public Transportation (2/20/08)

• Moving the Bus Back into Traffic Safely - Signage and Lighting Configuration - Phase I (2/5/08)

• Developing a Printed Transit Information Material Design Manual (1/11/08)

• Journal of Public Transportation - Special Edition on Transportation Demand Management Volume 10, No 4, (1/10/08)

• Other Transit Research Publications

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