A Guidebook for Using Automatic Passenger Counter Data for National Transit Database(NTD) Reporting

This document provides guidance for transit agencies to use data from their automatic passenger counters (APCs) for reporting to the National Transit Database (NTD). It first reviews both the traditional data requirements on the data items to be reported and the statistical criteria that the reported data must satisfy and the new APC requirements if APCs are used to obtain the data items. More importantly, the document provides guidance on the following three areas:

• Options for Meeting NTD Requirements - Whether agencies with APCs are allowed to use their APC data for NTD reporting; whether agencies want to use APC data for NTD reporting if allowed; and how agencies should use their APC data for NTD reporting.

• Meeting the Data Requirements - How agencies should obtain 100% counts from APC data; how agencies should obtain estimates through using all usable APC data; and how agencies should obtain estimates through random sampling.

• Meeting the APC Requirements - The use of the guidance is expected to help agencies better meet NTD requirements and to reduce the possibility of reported APC data not being included in the apportionment for Section 5307. - How agencies should develop the benchmarking plan and the maintenance plan; and how agencies should conduct the benchmarking study and the annual maintenance study. Download the final report.

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