Security and Emergency Preparedness – Action Items for Transit Agencies
Security and Emergency Preparedness – Action Items for Transit Agencies, FTA, September 2014 View Document
A Transit Technology Selection Model
Journal of Public Transportation Article in Volume 17, Issue 4 (2014) by Jeffrey M. Casello, Geoffrey McD. Lewis, Kevin Yeung, Deborah Santiago-Rodriguez. This paper presents an easy-to-use model to assist in technology selection for transit planning. The model computes annual costs for two technologies—currently BRT and LRT—for a system with characteristics specified by the user…
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Onboard Video Feedback Systems on Reducing Transit Collisions and Injuries
Journal of Public Transportation Article in Volume 17, Issue 3 (2014) by Michael Litschi, Peter J. Haas. In the mid-2000s, public transit agencies began testing onboard video feedback systems on buses, which capture short video clips when triggered by an unusual event such as hard braking, a sharp turn, or impact with an object. The…
A Transit-Based Evacuation Model for Metropolitan Areas
Journal of Public Transportation Article in Volume 17, Issue 3 (2014) by Xin Zhang, Gang-len Chang. This paper develops a decision-support model for transit-based evacuation planning occurring in metropolitan areas. The model consists of two modules executed in a sequential manner: the first deals with determining pick-up locations from candidate locations based on the spatial…