(Center Identification Number: 77930) In 2007, the National Center for Transit Research (NCTR) sponsored a study to examine best practices in extraboard operator management. In most transit agencies, extraboard manpower is managed by the dispatch function, but extraboard management is only one of the many aspects of
With a series of new technologies, USF researchers are creating ways for residents to be active participants in emergency response. CUTR researchers Sean Barbeau, Philip Winters and at team of software developers and engineers at the Location Aware Information Systems Laboratory have been granted six new U.S.
(Center Identification Number: 77935) Coordinated data sharing is important for government jurisdictions that overlap the same geographic area. For efficient planning and operations purposes, each jurisdiction should have knowledge of the other organizations’ activities that may affect them.
The Transit GIS Clearinghouse is hosting a free webinar entitled OpenTripPlanner (OTP) and its Deployment at TriMet on Thursday, May 31, 2012 1:00PM (EDT). This webinar will tell the story of the Portland Regional Trip Planner, the first fully open-source, multimodal trip itinerary planning application to be
The May 2012 Volume 5 Issue 2 of FLOW, the official NCTR newsletter, is now available. Featured articles include: Dynamic Travel Information Personalized and Delivered to Your Cell Phone Enabling Cost-Effective Multimodal Trip Planners through Open Transit Data Analysis of Contracting for Fixed-Route Bus Service NCTR Student Receives APTA Foundation Scholarship
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