Advanced Public Transportation Systems
A Bibliography with Abstracts 1985-1991
April 1992
Click HERE for graphic. Advanced Public Transportation Systems A Bibliography with Abstracts 1985-1991 Final Report April 1992 Compiled and Edited by Marina Drancsak Federal Transit Administration Jerome T. Maddock Transportation Research Board Prepared for Federal Transit Administration Office of Technical Assistance and Safety 400 7th Street, S.W. Washington, DC 20590 Distributed in Cooperation with Technology Sharing Program U.S. Department of Transportation Washington, DC 20590 DOT-T-92-18 ADVANCED PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS 1985-1991 A Bibliography With Abstracts Table of Contents Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .iii Sample Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv FTA-Sponsored Research Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Other Research Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 APPENDICES: FTA REGIONAL REPOSITORIES FACTS ABOUT TRIS ii U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration APTS: ADVANCED PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS 1985-1991 A Bibliography With Abstracts AN UMTRIS/TRIS LITERATURE SEARCH The references included in this bibliography have been retrieved from the Urban Mass Transportation Research Information Service (UMTRIS) subfile of TRIS, the Transportation Research Information Services data- base. Each citation has a report availability statement for persons interested in obtaining a full text copy of the cited record. Each record begins with a Record Number. See Sample Records on the following page. The Record Number is followed either by "DA" or "PR". The "DA" indicates that the record is a Document Abstract, representing a published full text document. The "PR" identifies a Project Resume describing an ongoing or recently completed, but as yet unpublished, research project. For additional information on Project Resumes, contact the individual listed in the record at the address given. Toward the end of the bibliography is a listing of the Federal Transit Administration's Regional Repositories. Copies of FTA-sponsored reports have been deposited with these repositories and are available to the public through an interlibrary loan arrangement with any of the repositories listed here. For additional information on transit, please contact Marina Drancsak, Editor, U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, at (202) 366-0201 or Jerry Maddock, Compiler, Transportation Research Board, at (202) 334-3250. Office of Technical Assistance and Safety iii Click HERE for graphic. Click HERE for graphic. PART 1. FTA-SPONSORED RESEARCH PROJECTS AVAILABILITY: Documents cited in the bibliography include an availablilty statement. Look for the source following the statement "AVAILABLE FROM:" in each record. Click HERE for graphic. Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS): 1985-1991 FTA-Sponsored Research Projects 389977 DA A COMPUTER-AIDED APPROACH TO ENERGY CONTINGENCY ROUTE PLANNING FOR TRANSIT USING TNOP Friedman, TW; Janarthanan, N Transportation Research Board Transportation Research Board Special Report N203 1983 pp 65-68 5 Fig. 1 Ub. 1 Ref. SUBFILE: HRIS: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Transportation Research Board Publications Office 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington D.C. 20418 In this study the use of a computerized transit planning package is tested for analyzing the demand patters and for deriving high-per- formance plans for serving different fixed-demand levels. The interactive graphic Transit Network Optimization System (TNOP) is a set of computer programs for use in designing and evaluating the performance of alternative bus and rail systems. TNOP is designed to analyze fixed- route, fixed schedule transit systems. One of several recent applications of TNOP for energy contingency planning at Seattle Metro is described in this paper. This paper appeared in TRB Special Report 203, Proceedings of the Conference on Energy Contingency Planning in Urban Areas. Conference was conducted by TRB and sponsored by UMTA, April 6- 9, 1983, Houston, Texas. 455098 DA A PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PLAN FOR THE 1985 SPORTS FESTIVAL, EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, LOUISIANA RBA Engineers, Planners 8338 Summa Avenue, Suite 302 Baton Rouge Louisiana 70809; Louisiana Dept of Transportation & Development P. 0. Box 94245, Capitol Station Baton Rouge Louisiana 70804; Urban Mass Transportation Administration 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 Aug 1985 150P 3 App. REPORT NO: UMTA-LA-08-8011-85-1 CONTRACT NO: UMTA-LA-08-8011; Grant SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Urban Mass Transportation Administration 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 Baton Rouge, Louisiana served as the host city for the National Sports Festival VI from July 19 to August 5, 1985. The objective of this study was to develop a transportation plan that would transport the 4,000 participants to the various Festival activities and provide services that would afford other athletes the opportunity to view the competition. This report documents such a transportation plan. It describes the routes used in transporting the participants as well as the access and parking requirements for spectators. In addition, the report contains an evaluation of the transportation system and identifies specific problem areas that will assist future hosts in developing their transportation system for such an event. Overall, the transportation system provided the participants with the service it was designed to provide. The overall cost of the service was estimated at $160,000 which was nearly double the initial budget. Factors contributing to this overrun cost are discussed in this report. Better communication and planning was recommended to produce a more efficient and cost effective system as well as to avoid the problem areas discussed in this study. 455179 DA A RELIABILITY-BASED MODEL TO ANALYZE THE PERFORMANCE AND COST OF A TRANSIT FARE COLLECTION SYSTEM Heimann, DI Transportation Systems Center Research and Special Programs Administration Cambridge Massachusetts 02142 DTS-65; Urban Mass Transportation Administration 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 Jun 1985 Final Rpt. 120p REPORT NO: UMTA-MA-06-0153-85-1; DOT-ISC-UMTA-84-12 SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield Virginia 22161 The collection of transit system fares has become more sophisticated in recent years, with more flexible structures requiring more sophis- ticated fare collection equipment to process tickets and admit passengers. However, this new and complex equipment has often been plagued by reliability problems, frequently resulting in significant passenger congestion and delay. Development efforts are underway to improve reliability. It is uncertain, however, to what extent reliability needs to be improved and how much the improvement will cost. Attempting either too small or too large an improvement in equipment reliability or maintainability may waste valuable transit funds, and may not even solve the underlying problem. A way is needed to determine the dependability (i.e., the passenger congestion and delay arising from the system) and cost of a fare collection system, given the passenger demand, the equipment capacity, reliability, and maintainability, and the various system costs. This report discusses fare collection dependability analyses, and how transit systems can use it to make more effective investment decisions in selecting fare collection systems which best fit their needs, minimize costs, and provide effective service to passengers. Software implementing such analysis is available in the form of user-friendly computer models, also described in this report. Various types of analyses are described: evaluation (how well is the given system doing?); and trade-off analysis (what tradeoffs can be made among system values without affecting overall performance?). The simulation and analytical models to carry out fare collection system dependability and cost analysis are presented, including their technical approach and data requirements. Sample fare collection dependability cost analyses using data based on actual transit systems are shown, and results and conclusions are discussed. 462871 DA ADVANCED GROUP RAPID TRANSIT, PHASE IIB. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND FINAL REPORT Lyttle, DD; Freitag, DB; Christenson, DH Boeing Aerospace Company Automated Transportation Systems, P.O. Box 3999 Seattle Washington 98124; Urban Mass Transportation Administration 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 Feb 1986 210p REPORT NO: UMTA-WA-06-0011-86-1 CONTRACT NO: DOT-UT-80041; Contract SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield Virginia 22161 The purpose of the Advanced Group Rapid Transit (AGRT) APRIL 1, 1992 -1- Citations from TRIS Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS): 1985-1991 FTA-Sponsored Research Projects program was to develop an advanced automated guideway transit system capable of providing high passenger volumes, short waiting times, and high levels of passenger service. Me system developed consists of small, automated vehicles operating on a single lane guideway at short headways, with unmanned, off-line stations. The work in this report summarizes the work performed by Boeing Aerospace Company under the AGRT program, Contract Number DOT-UT430041. The AGRT program summarized in this report focuses on the identification of the critical technologies required to safely command and control the movement of unmanned vehicles along a guideway. This report is organized to provide the reader insight into the management and development of the AGRT technology. A history of the program and its dependency on earlier developed and implemented technology and the identification of technologies that may be adaptable to existing transit systems is provided. Key issues and goals are presented as defined by UMTA for the introduction of microprocessor-based control systems. Summary conclusions are as follows: 1) the technology developed supports the partial automation of existing systems and more complete automation of new systems; 2) long range research and development directed to implementation of the technology to enhance transit efficiency and productivity should be continued; 3) safety and evaluation standards for implementation of microprocessor based control systems are required; and 4) a steering action group directed to monitor the implementation of automation to enhance transit system productivity is recommended. Earlier reports in this series are: Advanced Group Rapid Transit Vehicle Control Unit Design Summary, UMTA-WA-06-0011-84-3, NTIS No. PB86-169596, A12 and Advanced Group Rapid Transit Odometer Data Downlink Collision Avoidance System Design Summary, UMTA-WA-06-0011-84-2, NTIS No. PB86-169588, A08. 458780 DA ADVANCED GROUP RAPID TRANSIT VEHICLE CONTROL UNIT DESIGN SUMMARY FINAL REPORT Greve, AIR; Haberman, DE; Lang, RP Boeing Aerospace Company Automated Transportation Systems Seattle Washington 98124; Urban Mass Transportation Administration 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 May 1985 261p Figs. 2 Tab. REPORT NO: UMTA-WA-06-0011-84-3 CONTRACT NO: DOT-UT-80041; Contract SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield Virginia 22161 The purpose of the Advanced Group Rapid Transit (AGRT) program was to develop an advanced automated guideway transit system capable of providing high passenger volumes, short waiting times, and high levels of passenger service. The system is the development of a transportation system consisting of small, automated vehicles operating on a single lane guideway at short headways with unmanned, off-line stations. This report documents the design, development and test activity associated with the Vehicle Control Unit (VCU) for the AGRT program. The VCU is that part of the AGRT control hierarchy carried onboard a transit vehicle that is responsible for overall vehicle control and safety. The vehicle control function involves implementation of wayside commands conveyed to the vehicle by inductive communications and magnetic vehicle status measurements. The VCU controls longitudinal motion (jerk, acceleration, speed, and position); switching; closed-loop emergency stopping; and vehicle doors. Safety assurance tasks include overspeed protection, emergency removal of tractive effort, door control, status monitoring, fault protection, and system initialization. The VCU is described in detail, including conclusions as well as recommendations. 605353 DA ADVANCED PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS PROGRAM Urban Mass Transportation Administration 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 1991 n.p. SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Urban Mass Transportation Administration 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 This packet contains a brochure and flyers describing the Advanced Public Transportation Systems Program which is a component of an overall U.S. DOT initiative in Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS). The program is structured to undertake research and development of innovative applications of advanced navigation, information, and communication technologies that most benefit public transportation. Major public benefits are expected as the application of these technologies attract travellers to transit and ridesharing modes, thus reducing traffic congestion, air pollution, and energy consumption. 616082 DA ADVANCED PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS - THE STATE OF THE ART Casey, RF; Labell, LN; Prensky, SP; Schweiger, CL John A. Volpe Transportation Systems Center Research and Special Programs Administration Cambridge Massachusetts 02142 Apr 1991 92p REPORT NO: UMTA-MA-06-0196-91-2 SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield Virginia 22161 This report documents one of the early initiatives of UMTAs Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS) Program, a program structured to undertake research and development of innovative applications of advanced navigation, information, and communication technologies that most benefit public transportation. This report contains the results of a limited investigation of the extent of adoption of advanced technology in the provision of public transportation service in North America. It focused on some of the most innovative or comprehensive implementations, categorized broadly under the APTS program elements of Market Development, Customer Interface, Vehicle Operations and Communications, and High Occupancy Vehicle Facility Operations. The objective of this effort was to increase the industry's knowledge of successful applications of advanced technologies with the expectation that this will lead to their widespread adoption. 603467 DA AGENDA FOR THE URBAN MASS TRANSPORTATION ADMINISTRATION'S TRANSIT PLANNING AND RESEARCH Citations from TRIS -2- April 1, 1992 Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS): 1985-1991 FTA-Sponsored Research Projects PROGRAM Urban Mass Transportation Administration 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 Jan 1991 42p Refs. REPORT NO: UMTA-UT-06-0001-91-1 SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Urban Mass Transportation Administration 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 This report presents the Agenda for the Urban Mass Transportation Administration's Transit Planning and Research (TPR) Program. It is a response to the National Transportation Policy (NTP) issued by President Bush on February 26, 1990. NTP calls for a new direction that will "Increase the Federal transportation budget for research and technology projects, in coordination with the efforts of private industry, the academic community, and state and local governments." The new UMTA TPR program will integrate all of UMTAs planning and research and combine several existing programs under a single, flexible funding arrangement. The agenda was developed to guide UMTA's TPR program. It reflects industry's comments and suggestions at the 1990 Priorities Conference held in Kansas City, Missouri. This agenda report consists of 2 chapters. Chapter I (Introduction) introduces the National Transportation Policy and TPR; presents a history of UMTA Planning and Research; and discusses the Planning and Research opportunities. Chapter 2, titled The Proposed Transit Planning and Research Agenda, puts forth and discusses the following 6 "themes" that form the framework for the NTP and serve as the basis for the TPR agenda: Maintain and expand the Nation's transportation system; Foster a sound financial base for transportation; Keep the transportation industry strong and competitive; Ensure that the transportation system supports public safety and national security; Protect the environment and the quality of life; and Advance U.S. transportation technology and expertise. In this report, industry's proposed planning and research agenda are organized and discussed within the 6 NTP themes. 60750-5 DA AN EVALUATION OF AUTOMATIC PASSENGER COUNTERS: VALIDATION, SAMPLING AND STATISTICAL INFERENCE. FINAL REPORT Strathman, JG TransNow, Transportation Northwest Washington Univ, Civil Engineering Dept, 135 More Hall FX-10 Seattle Washington 98195 Feb 1990 22p Tabs. Refs. REPORT NO: TNW90-19 SUBFILE: HRIS; UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: TransNow, Transportation Northwest Washington Univ, Civil Engineering Dept, 135 More Hall FX-10, Seattle Washington 98195 This report addresses three issues associated with the implementation of automatic passenger counters (APCs), based on an evaluation of the recent experiences of the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (Tri-Met). First is the issue of validation, which is concerned with both the recovery and accuracy of APC passenger data. The second issue concerns the development of a sampling methodology for APCs compatible with UMTA's Section 15 reporting requirements. Third is the issue of inferring system-level ridership from sample data in the presence of selective APC failures. 615827 DA ASSESSMENT OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES FOR TRANSIT AND RIDESHARE APPLICATIONS Davies, P; Hill, C; Emmott, N; Siviter, J Castle Rock Consultants Leesburg Virginia Jul 1991 130p Figs. Tabs. 117 Ref. 2 App. REPORT NO: NCTRP-604A SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Urban Mass Transportation Administration 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 This report presents the results of a study to examine advanced technologies and systems that can be applied to high occupancy, ridesharing and transit needs. Advanced technologies can be used to encourage the use transit and rideshare facilities by improving their attractiveness and accessibility to travelers. In addition, they have the potential to increase the efficiency of transit and rideshare operations, reducing operational costs while offering higher levels of service to the public. Technologies were reviewed in the areas of traveler information systems, traffic management systems, fleet management and control systems, and automatic vehicle control systems. Within these areas, developments in the U.S., Europe and Japan were considered and a number of individual technologies were identified. The study included a review of current moves toward a national intelligent vehicle highway systems (IVHS) program. An outline of IVHS projects and activities directed at high occupancy vehicles, rideshare and transit vehicles has been prepared. These cover research, development, operational testing and standard setting activities for the technologies. The report makes recommendations for the direction of future work on transit and rideshare-related technologies, within the framework of a national IVHS program. 616286 PR AUTOMATED PARATRANSIT BILLING DEMONSTRATION PROJECT INVESTIGATORS: Blin, H SPONSORING ORG: Urban Mass Transportation Administration PERFORMING ORG: Regional Transit Board Mears Park Centre, 230 East 5th Street St Paul Minnesota 55101 CONTRACT NO: UMTA-MN-06-002-3; Grant PROJECT START DATE: 9109 PROJECT TERMINATION DATE: 9309 SUBFILE: UMTRIS The objective of this Twin Cities Smart Card Evaluation project is to support the efforts of the Regional Transit Board (RTB in evaluating the use of IVHS technologies in paratransit services. The project will examine the potential of automated card reader systems to improve service levels and management procedures for the region's Metro Mobility Program. The RTB; 5 objectives for this project are: to determine the appropriate use of smart card technologies in fare payment; to evaluate the potential use of smart card technologies to electronically administer Metro Mobility billings; to cite recommendations on possible improvements to contractor performance monitoring through the use of these systems; to evaluate potential applications of smart card systems; and to evaluate automatic vehicle location (AVL) applications to Metro Mobility, including an analysis of the potential for reducing or eliminating the existing 24 hour advance reservation requirement. It is anticipated that the evaluation April 1, 1992 -3- Citations from TRIS Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS): 1985-1991 FTA-Sponsored Research Projects of these technologies will lead to implementation strategies that will improve Metro Mobility. This project is part of the Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS) component of the Regional Mobility Program. 492359 DA AUTOMATED TRANSIT RIDERSHIP DATA COLLECTION PILOT TEST AND USER'S GUIDE. INTERIM REPORT Barnes, K.E; Urbanik, T, II Texas Transportation Institute Texas A&M University College Station Texas 77843 Sep 1989 68p 2 Fig. REPORT NO: UMTA/TX-89/1087-2; Research Rpt 1087-2 CONTRACT NO: Study 2-11-87-1087; Contract SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Texas State Department of Highways & Public Transp Transportation Planning Division, P.O. Box 5051 Austin Texas 78763 Transit systems need to collect bus ridership data to evaluate operational efficiency and to comply with the reporting requirements for federal government subsidies. Manual data collection, coding and summarization is a tedious, inefficient and expensive process. An automated data collection system such as the one produced by Multisystems, was found to be the most cost effective and versatile system for Texas small transit agencies. The automated system consists of two software packages. The Check*mate software is used on a portable computer to collect ridership data and the TIM software is used on a PC to correct, store and summarize the data. The supplied documentation for the system was inadequate for implementation and so a supplemental user's guide was developed. The automated system (including the new user's guide) was furnished to Citibus, the local transit agency in Lubbock. The implementation and their use of the automated system was then documented. Several comments and recommendations were generated for the automated system. Overall, the pilot test demonstrated that the automated system could be used effectively by transit systems to improve efficiency. The system does require considerable time to set up, and was one of the major concerns resulting from the pilot testing. State assistance in training and set-up may be one possible alternative for small transit agencies. TTI and Citibus personnel agree that the concept of an equipment "pool" for transit agencies to borrow the hardware necessary for an automated data collection system is not feasible due to the frequency at which data must be collected. 477590 DA AUTOMATED TRANSIT RIDERSHIP DATA COLLECTION. FINAL REPORT Barnes, KE; Urbanik, T, II Texas Transportation Institute Texas A&M University College Station, Texas 77843; Texas State Department of Highways & Public Transp Transportation Planning Division, P.O. Box 5051 Austin Texas 78763; Urban Mass Transportation Administration 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 Sep 1988 32p REPORT NO: UMTA/FX-88/1087-1; Technical Rpt 1087-1 CONTRACT NO: Study 1-10-87-1087; Contract SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield Virginia 22161 Transit systems need to periodically collect and analyze ridership data to determine operational efficiency. Data must also be collected by those transit systems that receive Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) funding. An automated data collection system can be used to collect, check, arrange, summarize and store bus ridership data. The initial is more than offset by the savings in employee time after implementation. The Check*mate and TIM software packages developed by Multisystems provides the benefits of an automated data collection system at a reasonable price. However the documentation that is presently available is inadequate. Implementation of this system would be extremely difficult for a novice user and additional documentation is recommended. The centralized or pooled concept of an automated data collection system that could be made available to small transit systems in Texas was determined to be not feasible. The influencing factor for this decision include, the logistics of providing the equipment to the transit systems, the difficulties of scheduling and communication, the cost of an adequate number of systems and the time required to train the users. The Multisystems system does however appear to be a reasonable expenditure for individual transit systems. The final step in evaluating the benefits of an automated system and the recommendation of this study would be to provide a small transit system with the Multisystems system, appropriate hardware and training and then evaluate its use and effectiveness. 39-5276 PR AUTOMATIC FARE COLLECTION BUS EQUIPMENT EVALUATION INVESTIGATORS: Armstrong, W SPONSORING ORG: Urban Mass Transportation Administration PERFORMING ORG: Metropolitan transportation Authority 347 Madison Avenue New York New York 10017 CONTRACT NO: UMTA-NY-06-0122; Contract PROJECT START DATE: 8406 PROJECT TERMINATION DATE: 9006 SUBFILE: UMTRIS The New York MTA has contracted with Arthur D. Little, Inc., of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to test and evaluate the state-of-the-art in automatic fare collection (AFC) technology and its application to the New York City bus system, as well as the capability of such equipment to increase passenger convenience, lower fare collection costs, and reduce fare evasion. Use of multi-ride/multi-value passes shows promise to substantially reduce revenue loss over use of monthly flash passes. Electronic pass-reading AFC equipment from three manufacturers will be evaluated: CGA/Camp; Crouzet (magnetic ticket reader/cancellors that use the small-size Edmonson magnetic strip paper tickets); and Cubic Western Data (swipe-through pass reader using standard credit card size magnetic strip plastic fare cards). In this project, MTA will evaluate upgraded units from these manufacturers corrected to resolve the problems identified in an earlier evaluation, as well as units from other manufacturers (such as SCI Systems, Control Systems, etc.) that have potential application. This study will produce a final report with comparative information useful to other transit agencies considering the installation of AFC equipment on buses. Citations from TRIS -4- April 1, 1992 Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS): 1985-1991 FTA-Sponsored Research Projects 485826 DA AUTOMATIC PASSENGER COUNTER AND ELECTRONIC REGISTERING FAREBOX DATA INTEGRATION PROJECT FINAL DEMONSTRATION REPORT Osei-Owusu, P; Johnson, A Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority 2424 Piedmont Road Atlanta Georgia 30324; Urban Mass Transportation Administration 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 Mar 1989 90p 15 Fig. 12 Tab. 6 Ref. REPORT NO: UMTA-GA-06-0019-89-1 CONTRACT NO: UMTA-GA-06-0019; Grant SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield Virginia 22161 This project aimed to develop a unified passenger and revenue data reporting system by merging separate output files from 2 separate data handling devices--automatic passenger counter (APC) and electronic registering farebox (ERF). The report evaluates the Automatic Passenger Counter and Fare Demonstration Project undertaken by MARTA. It was designed to test the merging of output data from 2 onboard devices (APC and ERF). Three MARTA buses, equipped with both devices, were chosen to run on 3 selected routes. Output data representing fare and passenger activities on each of the 3 routes were manually merged into a single integrated output for further analysis and report generation. An important aspect of the initial plan, to merge the data electronically, was abandoned because of technical difficulties. Even though an electronic merger was not possible, many project objectives were achieved. This report provides background information of the project as a whole, discusses GFI electronic farebox and APC equipment, describes what was done, and discusses the results pointing out project strengths, weaknesses and conclusions. Data output integration was the central theme of the entire project. 475621 DA AUTOMATIC PASSENGER COUNTER SYSTEMS: THE STATE OF THE PRACTICE. FINAL REPORT Hodges, CC Lane Council of Governments 125 East Eighth Avenue Eugene Oregon 97401; Urban Mass Transportation Administration Office of Planning Assistance, 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590; Office of the Secretary of Transportation Technology Sharing Program, 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 Jun 1985 157p REPORT NO: DOT-1-87-36 SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Office of the Secretary of Transportation Technology Sharing Program, 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 Automatic Passenger Counters (APCs) involve the use of electronic devices or "sensors" to detect transit passenger activity. Data on the number of passengers boarding and alighting (deboarding) the bus and the location of that activity are accumulated and stored in a microprocessor on-board the bus. These data are later transferred (either manually or automatically) to a central, stationary computer for data processing and report generation. Prior to the development of APCs, these tasks were performed exclusively by people. Today, many of the agencies using APC's have limited or discontinue data collection activities. This study evaluates the capabilities, costs, and benefits of automated data collection techniques in collecting and analyzing ridership information essential to public transit planning and management. This evaluation presents a broad range of detailed and technical information on APCs which will be a resource for agencies researching alternative data collection techniques. In addition, the discussion on APC system implementation will benefit agencies planning a conversion from manual to automated data collection methods. 480693 DA AUTOMATION IN THE METROPOLITAN TRANSIT AUTHORITY OF HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS AND ITS EFFECTS ON PRODUCTIVITY FINAL REPORT Crew, RE, Jr; Weither, GW Houston University, Texas 4800 Calhoun Road Houston Texas 77204; Urban Mass Transportation Administration 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 Feb 1989 67p 10 Fig. 4 Tab. REPORT NO: UMTA-TX-11-0019-89-1 CONTRACT NO: UMTA-TX-11-0019; Grant SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield Virginia 22161 In 1979 the Harris County (Texas) Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) purchased HouTran--a bus system "in ruins." In 1985 this same bus system (renamed Metro) was recognized as one of the best systems in America. Many factors contributed to this dramatic change--new management, new personnel, new productivity brought about by the installation of an automated management information system (MIS). The purpose of this report is to systematically organize and share with other transit agencies Metro's experience and perception of the value of implementing these automated systems. This report describes the process by which a multi-element MIS was installed at Houston Metro and analyzes the impact of that installation on human productivity. The report begins with a history of mass transit events in Houston and describes the environment in which MIS was introduced. Two tasks were undertaken. The process analyses portion/task of this report documents the MIS implementation process and identifies problem areas and strategies addressing such problems. The impact analyses portion measures productivity in each automated area and analyzes relationships between the automated systems and productivity. Manual systems that were automated--vehicle maintenance, scheduling, accounting and others--and benefits derived from MIS are charted-out. Although productivity increased substantially between 1979-1985, the study does not link these improvements solely to automated systems. However, a plausible connection is established between the introduction of the vehicle maintenance program and the decline in the number of employees in that department. 615990 PR BELLEVUE SMART COMMUTER PROJECT INVESTIGATORS: Blumenthal, C SPONSORING ORG: Urban Mass Transportation Administration PERFORMING ORG: Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle 821 Second Avenue Seattle Washington 98104 April 1, 1992 -5- Citations from TRIS Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS): 1985-1991 FTA-Sponsored Research Projects CONTRACT NO: UMTA-WA-06-0039; Grant PROJECT START DATE: 9108 PROJECT TERMINATION DATE: 9203 SUBFILE: UMTRIS The UMTA Advanced Transportation Systems Program (APTS) foresees new opportunities for attracting travelers to ridesharing by making mobile telecommunications mode work better through applications of telecommunications technologies. This is the initial planning and design of an operational test project applying the capabilities of mobile telecommunications (e.g. cellular telephones) to the growth and efficiency of carpools and vanpools serving the CBD of Bellevue, Washington - a major suburban employment center close to Seattle. Bellevue Transportation Management Association (TMA) staff, private sector commuter transportation coordinators, City of Bellevue, Metro Transit, and leading Bellevue-region mobile telecommunication companies will be mobilized to design an equipment and service package for deployment to every TMA-registered carpool and Metro vanpool coming into the Bellevue CBD, app. 400 vehicles. The project will create and document a method of deploying and paying for this package, along with a design for its operational testing and evaluation during 1992-93. 468840 DA BRIDGEPORT TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION SYSTEM STUDY Greater Bridgeport Regional Planning Agency 525 Water Street Bridgeport Connecticut 06604; Urban Mass Transportation Administration 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 Mar 1988 141p REPORT NO: UMTA-CT-09-0023-88-1 CONTRACT NO: UMTA-CT-09-0023; Grant SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Northwestern U Library, Evanston UC Berkeley The need for a central source for public transport information to retain and expand patronage in the 6-town area of the Greater Bridgeport Region (GBR) generated this study. Current information services are fragmented and do not address multi-modal trips. A previous ConnDOT study identified the need for establishing a series of regional transportation information centers that would provide multi-modal transit information and ultimately link-up with private sector data. The objective of this study is to define capital, operational, equipment and management needs for implementing a centralized public transport telephone information center serving the GBR. The literature review conducted and discussed in this report indicated quality information services essential to an operator's marketing/public relations program. Benefits flowing from the implementation of a telephone information center with automatic call distribution (ACD) and automated data retrieval capabilities are also discussed. The Bridgeport Information Center, designed in this report, focuses on at least one trip end within the 6-town Bridgeport area. It consists of an ACD system with 5 active lines and 4 lines allocated to queue capacity; an integrated computerized data retrieval system based around a mini-/microcomputer local area network system; and a management information system comprised of geographic and operator databases and related application software. Capital costs are expected to total $242,100 with annual operating costs ranging between $62,000 in year one of the implementation program and $336,800 in year five. Only available to the public through the interlibrary loan services of Regional Repositories/Document Delivery Centers of the: Transportation Library, Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois 60208 and Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720. 611683 PR BUS ACCESSIBILITY SYSTEMS INVESTIGATORS: Hunter-Zaworski, KM SPONSORING ORG: Urban Mass Transportation Administration PERFORMING ORG: Oregon State University Transportation Research Institute Corvallis Oregon 97331 CONTRACT NO: UMTA-OR-11-0007; Grant PROJECT START DATE: 91 PROJECT TERMINATION DATE: 92 SUBFILE: UMTRIS This project will focus on the technologies, operating policies, and training options currently in use in North America to improve transit accessibility for persons with disabilities (namely, individuals with sensory and mental impairments). It will include participation by transit agency officials and individuals with disabilities who are transit users or potential users. The study will be conducted in 2 phases. Phase one will document the research into the state-of-the-art in current and future technologies, operating policies, and training programs that accommodate individuals with disabilities, and identify problematic areas. It will also document the potential application of IVHS and ATIS technologies for assisting individuals with disabilities. Phase two report will present the results of the systematic design methodology applied to conceptual designs for technological solutions of the problems identified. A Final project report will document both phases of the project and will include results from the ongoing research into securement/restraint system design and wheelchair lifts. The final report will be made available to the general public. 616296 PR BUS TRAFFIC SIGNAL PREEMPTION AND AVL STUDY INVESTIGATORS: Johnson, MH SPONSORING ORG: Urban Mass Transportation Administration PERFORMING ORG: Chicago Transit Authority Merchandise Mart Plaza, P.O. Box 3555 Chicago Illinois 60654 CONTRACT NO: UMTA-IL-06-0088; Grant PROJECT START DATE: 92 PROJECT TERMINATION DATE: ND SUBFILE: UMTRIS The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) will study and evaluate automatic vehicle location (AVL) and bus traffic signal preemption technologies and analyze their potential impact on auto traffic and bus operations in a Chicago corridor. The project includes an international literature search to locate suppliers with working system, interviews with potential vendors, visits to cities with operational AVLs and bus traffic priority signal systems and project evaluation reports. The project will demonstrate this technology in the S. Michigan/119th Street corridor to determine its suitability for systemwide application. 486514 DA DEVELOPMENT OF A GRAPHICS BASED AUTOMATED Citations from TRIS -6- April 1, 1992 Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS): 1985-1991 FTA-Sponsored Research Projects AUTOMATED EMERGENCY RESPONSE SYSTEM (AERS) FOR RAIL TRANSIT SYSTEMS. FINAL REPORT Hathaway, WT; Heimann, D; Hammar, PK Transportation Systems Center Research and Special Programs Administration Cambridge Massachusetts 02142; Urban Mass Transportation Administration Office of Technical Assistance & Safety 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 May 1989 48p Figs. REPORT NO: UMTA-MA-06-0178-89-1; DOT-TSC-UMTA-89-1 CONTRACT NO: UMTA-MA-06-0178; Grant SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: National technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield Virginia 22161 This report presents an overview of the second generation Automated Emergency Response System (AERS2). Developed to assist transit systems in responding effectively to emergency situations, AERS2 is a microcomputer-based information retrieval system that provides train controllers, dispatchers, and supervisors with quick and accurate information. In contrast to the original AERS, AERS2 provides information through a color schematic map of a one-mile length of track on the upper half of the computer display screen and textual information on the lower half of the screen. The report describes the development and operation of AERS2, provides background information and a detailed description of the AERS2 data files, describes the operation and various functions of AERS2, and provides conclusions and recommendations for further action. 471396 DA DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATED SECURITY INCIDENT REPORTING SYSTEM (SIRS) FOR BUS TRANSIT. FINAL REPORT Cooney, NA Transportation Systems Center Research and Special Programs Administration Cambridge Massachusetts 02142; Urban Mass Transportation Administration Office of Technical Assistance, 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 Dec 1986 44p 15 Fig. 4 Ref. 1 App. REPORT NO: UMTA-MA-06-0152-86-3; DOT-TSC-UMTA-86-13 SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield Virginia 22161 The Security Incident Reporting System (SIRS) is a microcomputer- based software program demonstrated at the Metropolitan Transit Commission (MTC) in Minneapolis, MN. SIRS is designed to provide convenient storage, update and retrieval of security incident data. The program utilizes data from dispatcher, bus operator, security officer, and municipal police reports. Drawing on this data, the program produces standard reports, summarizing incident frequency, type, time, location and other attributes. In addition, the system can be queried to provide ad hoc statistical information, and individual incident records can be retrieved for inspection. Although SIRS was designed to meet the requirements of MTC, it has applicability to transit bus systems in general and can be modified to meet the varying input and output requirements of other transit systems. Section 1 of this report describes the need for efficient and accurate security incident data reporting within the transit industry and discusses the role of automation in improving the reporting process. Section 2 of the report outlines the relevant characteristics of MTC and its security department. Section 3 details the design of the SIRS system and the functions it can perform. Lastly, Section 4 describes the applicability of SIRS to the transit industry in general and recommends future efforts to promote the use of automated reporting systems like SIRS. 458686 DA EVALUATION OF THE SALT LAKE CITY COMPUTERIZED RIDER INFORMATION SYSTEM. FINAL REPORT Ruiter, ER; Lung, RE Cambridge Systematics, Incorporated 222 Third Street Cambridge Massachusetts 02142; Urban Mass Transportation Administration Office of Technical Assistance, 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 Nov 1985 184p Figs. Tabs. 6 App. REPORT NO: UMTAMA-06-0049-85-15; DOT-TSC-UMTA-85-23 CONTRACT NO: DOT-TSC-1752; Contract SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield Virginia 22161 The Utah Transit Authority (UTA) Computerized Rider Information System (CRIS) project involved the installation of an automated telephone service to quickly provide bus stop-specific schedule and service information to residents throughout the Authority's service region, which includes Salt Lake City and its surrounding suburbs, as well as the city of Ogden, Utah. Potential bus users obtain this information by calling telephone numbers assigned to specific bus stops or groups of stops. UTAs bus dispatchers have access both to the CRIS system and to the existing dispatch/communications system which includes radios on each bus. The dispatchers monitor bus drivers' reports or schedule deviations and in turn enter this information into the CRIS system. In this way the information supplied to potential passengers who call the CRIS numbers reflects actual operating conditions. The primary goal of the system was to increase ridership and passenger revenues by making up-to-date service information available to all potential users of the transit system. UTA implemented this system, initially on six test routes, on February 4, 1983 under the same "Buzz- A-Bus." This final evaluation report is based on information gathered on CRIS system impacts throughout the sixteen-month Phase I period, which included two system effectiveness tests of six months each separated by four additional months of system operations. The final report includes a history of the system and an analysis of CRIS system usage and awareness, as well as the impacts on bus ridership and the usage of UTAs other information services. The system's cost and benefits are studied, and its lessons for other transit agencies are described. 611684 PR FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR AN INNOVATIVE RIDESHARING SYSTEM INVESTIGATORS: Pignataro, LT SPONSORING ORG: Urban Mass Transportation Administration PERFORMING ORG: New Jersey Institute of Technology Center for Transportation Studies & Research Newark New Jersey 07102 CONTRACT NO: UMTA-NJ-11-0014; Grant PROJECT START DATE: 91 PROJECT TERMINATION DATE:92 April 1, 1992 -7- Citations from TRIS Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS): 1985-1991 FTA-Sponsored Research Projects SUBFILE: HRIS; UMTRIS This research will investigate the feasibility of developing a flexible, real-time, ridesharing system on a national basis, and explore the ways in which such a system could be incorporated into and accelerate the introduction of Advanced Traveler Information & Services (ATIS) and the Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS) concepts. Me study will develop the concept of a real-time, telephone-based ridesharing system that uses the private automobile fleet as a public transportation system. Ride availabilities and needs would be coordinated by a computer-based dispatching service reached by phone. A debit/credit arrangement would pay for the rides or even for transportation related operating and capital costs. The system would be operated by private companies and perhaps subdivided into franchises. This study will detail the use, benefits, including societal, and debits of the system. Participation in the program is voluntary, and operates on a day-by-day or fixed carpool basis. Project results will help determine whether a telephone-based, real-time, ridesharing system is technologically, economically and legally feasible. Research activities will be recorded in a final report and made available to the general public. 615274 PR HOUSTON SMART COMPUTER IVHS DEMONSTRATION PROJECT INVESTIGATORS: Turnbull, K SPONSORING ORG: Urban Mass Transportation Administration PERFORMING ORG: Texas Transportation Institute Texas A&M University TTI/CE Building, Room 101 College Station Texas 77843-3135 CONTRACT NO: Contract PROJECT START DATE: 9009 PROJECT TERMINATION DATE: 9109 SUBFILE: HRIS; UMTRIS The Houston Smart Computer IVHS Demonstration Project focuses on the use of Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS) technologies to promote and encourage the use of high-occupancy commute modes--such as buses, carpools, and vanpools-- and the transitways. The Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), a part of the Texas A&M University System, has received funding from the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, and the Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation to conduct an assessment of the potential for the Smart Commuter Demonstration Project. The development of the demonstration is based on the hypothesis that commuters who have quick and easy access to relevant, accurate, and up-to-date information on existing traffic conditions and bus routes and schedules will be more likely to use public transportation and other high occupancy commute modes. Under this project, TTI is conducting an assessment of the market potential, available technology, and approaches to coordinating the gathering and dissemination of needed traffic and transit information. The outcome of this effort will be the development of a concept design and implemen- tation program for the Smart Commuter IVHS Demonstration Project. 608828 PR INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEM (IVHS) Citations from TRIS INVESTIGATORS: Lowery, EL SPONSORING ORG: Urban Mass Transportation Administration PERFORMING ORG: Houston Metropolitan Transit Authority PO. Box 61429 Houston Texas 77208-1429 CONTRACT NO: Grant PROJECT START DATE: 91 PROJECT TERMINATION DATE: 92 SUBFILE: HRIS; UMTRIS METRO proposes to submit a grant application to the Urban Mass Transportation Administration to fund two prototype efforts supporting the IVHS program. The projects are Qube Signs and Automated Barrier Gates. Current changeable message signs will be used to display information for HOV lanes. The signs can be used to simplify the HOV lane's changing occupancy requirements, differing times of operation, and provide informational messages for accidents, changes in traffic flow, and use in special events. Automated barrier gates will be placed in the freeway median and will provide an opening between concrete median barriers. The gates will be motor driven and will be operable on site or from a remote location. For HOV lanes, the proposed plan will also include one gate every mile placed along opposite sides of the HOV lane. 605279 DA INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS INITIATIVE CONTRACT NO: UMTA-TX-06-0072; Grant SUBFILE: UMTRIS The objective of this cooperative agreement is to support the efforts of the Texas A&M Research Foundation to utilize intelligent vehicle highway system technology to promote and encourage the use of buses, vanpools, carpools, and transitways in Houston. The recipient will develop a comprehensive study design, evaluate alternative approaches to traveler information systems and technologies, and establish the information gathering process. 611689 PR IVHS MOBILITY MANAGER DEMONSTRATION PROJECT INVESTIGATORS: Gamble, P SPONSORING ORG: Urban Mass Transportation Administration PERFORMING ORG: Washington State Department of Transportation Transportation Building, KF-01 Olympia Washington 98504-5-201 CONTRACT NO: UMTA-WA-03-45-3; Grant PROJECT START DATE: 9101 PROJECT TERMINATION DATE: 9201 SUBFILE: HRIS; UMTRIS This 12-month cooperative agreement will support the efforts of the Washington State DOT to implement a demonstration project to test the mobility manager concept of coordinating various agency-sponsored transportation programs. Key elements to be tested include: a single point of contact; tracking and recording transactions; and implementing a unified billing of transportation services for all cooperating agencies. The demonstration will rely on the mobility manager concept previously developed and will explore opportunities to develop partnerships with community based transportation sponsors such as local transit, school districts, and other state supported programs. Citations from TRIS -8- April 1, 1992 Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS): 1985-1991 FTA-Sponsored Research Projects 616786 PR JOINT FHWA/UMTA OPERATIONAL ACTION PROGRAM. AUTOMATIC VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION (AVI) INVESTIGATORS: Richter, K SPONSORING ORG: Urban Mass Transportation Administration PERFORMING ORG: Chicago Area Transportation Study 300 West Adams Street Chicago Illinois 60606 CONTRACT NO: UMTA-MI-06-0054; Grant PROJECT START DATE: 9110 PROJECT TERMINATION DATE: 9210 SUBFILE: UMTRIS The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to support the efforts of the Chicago Area Transportation Study (CATS) to use an Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI) system to provide an alternative to the Kennedy Expressway induction loop surveillance network during reconstruction of the Expressway. It is anticipated that the project will provide the following: 1) a backup system from which the travel time information can be provided if the inductive loop experiences problems; 2) a unique opportunity to test the accuracy and reliability of an AVI system compared to a loop system; and, 3) an opportunity to test AVI technology in an arterial setting versus a more typical tollway application. 616281 PR JOINT FHWA/UMTA OPERATIONAL ACTION PROGRAM. TRANSIT-INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEM PROJECT INVESTIGATORS: Castronovo, S SPONSORING ORG: Urban Mass Transportation Administration PERFORMING ORG: Michigan Department of Transportation State Highways Building, 42-5 West Ottawa, P.O. Box 30050 Lansing Michigan 48909 CONTRACT NO: UMTA-MI-06-0054; Grant PROJECT START DATE: 91 10 PROJECT TERMINATION DATE: 9210 SUBFILE: UMTRIS The purpose of this project is to support the efforts of the Michigan Department of Transportation to transfer real-time freeway traffic condition information to public transit dispatch centers. Congestion mapping information will be provided through personal computers. The two-way information transfer capabilities of computers will in turn allow bus drivers to serve as information sources for Michigan DOT's Freeway Operations Facility in the Detroit area. This project is one of 12 projects selected in a national competition under the Joint FHWA/UMTA Operational Action Program. 462031 DA MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM VIA Metropolitan Transit P.O. Box 12489 San Antonio Texas 78212; San Antonio Metropolitan Planning Organization 434 South Main, Suite 210 San Antonio Texas 78205; Urban Mass Transportation Administration 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 Sep 1985 24p REPORT NO: UMTA-TX-09-0150-86-1 CONTRACT NO: UMTA-TX-09-0150; Contract SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Northwestern U, Evanston/UC Berkeley This report documents the seven tasks accomplished under UWP Work Element 79-12 that established an automated Management Information System (MIS) for VIA Transit. The purpose of the project was to automate the main sources of information such as Runcutting, Rostering, Timeroll, and Minischeduler and all other systems dependent on the information supplied by these major systems. Prior to this project, all systems that dealt with scheduling, Fostering, and bus operators work records were manual. In addition, the report discusses the establishment of a Demand Forecasting System; the cost-effectiveness of installing an Automated Timeroll Typesetting System; the design and installation of an integrated Geo-Coding database system that incorporates many different databases into a single unified database and is readily accessed by all VIA departments; defines user requirements for the Financial System and evaluates the General Financial Accounting Software Packages and the installation of SAGE Rostering System which takes the weekday, Saturday and Sunday runcuts and produces weekly runs or five days of work for each operator. All manual specifications and related documentation of this MIS project are available from: VIA Metropolitan Transit, 800 West Myrtle Street, San Antonio, Texas 78212. This report is available to the public through the interlibrary loan services of Regional Repositories/Document Delivery Centers of the: Transportation Library, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60201 and Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720. 616282 PR MOBILITY MANAGER DEMONSTRATION PROJECT SPONSORING ORG: Urban Mass Transportation Administration PERFORMING ORG: Rogue Valley Council of Governments PO Box 3275 Central Point Oregon 97502 CONTRACT NO: UMTA-OR-03-4500; Grant PROJECT START DATE: 9109 PROJECT TERMINATION DATE: 9304 SUBFILE: UMTRIS This 18-month project will demonstrate and validate the Mobility Manager concept to integrate transportation users, providers and funding sources. Advanced electronic technology will be used to document the financial transactions which occur. The initial phase will focus on providing elderly and disabled transportation service for those unable to use fixed route transit. The second phase will include frequent transit riders and the third phase will include participation by the general public. 462855 DA OTIS ADVANCED GROUP RAPID TRANSIT (AGRT) PRO-GRAM. FINAL REPORT APPENDICES A AND B Haines, G; Clohessy, T; Fredericks, W, Ochs, H; Thangavelu, K; Gupta, P Otis Elevator Company Transportation Technology Division, 11380 Smith Road Denver Colorado 80010; Urban Mass Transportation Administration 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 Dec 1985 175p REPORT NO: UMTA-CO-06-0011-86-2; AGRT-OTIS-TTD-277 CONTRACT NO: DOT-UT-80042; Contract SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield Virginia 22161 April 1, 1992 -9- Citations from TRIS Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS): 1985-1991 FTA-Sponsored Research Projects In recent years, it was recognized that a new generation of controls for automated transportation was needed if substantial improvements in the service, cost, and attractiveness of future transit systems were to be realized. Therefore, the Advanced Group Rapid Transit (AGRI) Program was established to develop and demonstrate an automatic 'moving block" control system for large scale urban applications based on a computer hardware/software hierarchy, taking advantage of advances in microprocessor and minicomputer technology. The AGRT program was structured to include design, fabrication, test of guideway, vehicle, and control system elements. However, primary emphasis was placed on the development and demonstration of microprocessor-based control and safety systems and communications systems which would have general application in urban mass transit. The authors point out that microprocessor-based systems offer the transit system operator the potential for significantly increased operational flexibility and system productivity, compared to conventional control and safety programs. Advances in microprocessor technology made this application possible. During several phases of the AGRT program over a period of several years, Otis Elevator Company, the Boeing Company, and Rohr Industries developed control system designs which met the program objectives. This report summarizes the work accomplished by the Otis Elevator Company on advanced automated transit technology under the AGRT program. A brief history of the program is provided along with a summary of significant technical accomplishments and findings in the area of mini and microprocessor controls, fault-tolerant computing and software development. A program status summary and comprehensive reference list is also provided. 462856 DA OTIS ADVANCED GROUP RAPID TRANSIT (AGRT) PROGRAM. FINAL REPORT Haines, G; Clohessy, T; Fredericks, W; Ochs, H; Thangavelu, K; Gupta, P Otis Elevator Company Transportation Technology Division, 11380 Smith Road Denver Colorado 80010; Urban Mass Transportation Administration 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 Dec 1985 218p REPORT NO: UMTA-CO-06-0011-86-1; AGRT-OTIS-TTD-277 CONTRACT NO: DOT-UT-80042; Contract SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield Virginia 22161 In recent years, it was recognized that a new generation of control for automated transportation was needed if substantial improvement in the service, cost, and attractiveness of future transit systems were to be realized. Therefore, the Advanced Group Rapid Transit (AGRI) Program was established to develop and demonstrate a automatic "moving block" control system for large scale urban applications based on a computer hardware/software hierarchy, taking advantage of advances in microprocessor and minicomputer technology. The AGRT program was structured to include design fabrication, test of guideway, vehicle, and control system elements However, primary emphasis was placed on the development an demonstration of microprocessor-based control and safety an communications systems which would have general application i urban mass transit. The authors point out that microprocessor-based systems offer the transit system operator the potential for significantly increased operational flexibility and system productivity, compared to conventional control and safety programs. Advances in microprocessor technology made this application possible. During several phases of the AGRT program over a period of several years, Otis Elevator Company, the Boeing Company, and Rohr Industries developed control system designs which met the program objectives. This report summarizes the work accomplished by the Otis Elevator Company on advanced automated transit technology under the AGRT program. A brief history of the program is provided along with a summary of significant technical accomplishments and findings in the area of mini and microprocessor controls, fault-tolerant computing and software development. A program status summary and comprehensive reference list is also provided. 608827 PR PASSENGER INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM INVESTIGATORS: McLean, L SPONSORING ORG: Urban Mass Transportation Administration PERFORMING ORG: Houston Metropolitan Transit Authority PO. Box 61429 Houston Texas 77208-1429 CONTRACT NO: Grant PROJECT START DATE: ND PROJECT TERMINATION DATE: ND SUBFILE: HRIS; UMTRIS METRO is developing a Passenger Information Display System for use aboard METRO buses. The system will serve as an aid to passengers with visual and hearing disabilities by both announcing and displaying bus location, destination, and other pertinent trip status information. Upon front door opening, an audio system would announce route, destination, and similar information of interest. En route, the system would display and announce cross-streets, transfer points, and time of day. The system would also function as an automatic vehicle locator system, sending schedule adherence, data, bus locations, and status (direction of travel, whether moving or stationary) to METRO's Central Dispatch Center. Also the system would alert the Dispatch Center when a bus has deviated from a prescribed route. Both voice and sign-displayed messages will be bilingual in Spanish and English. 462903 DA SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINATION OF RAPID TRANSIT RIDERSHIP PATTERNS. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY Teleride Corporation 156 Front Street, West Toronto Ontario M5J 2L6 Canada; New York City Transit Authority 370 Jay Street Brooklyn New York 11201; Urban Mass Transportation Administration 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 Apr 1986 242p REPORT NO: UMTA-NY-09-0083-86-1 CONTRACT NO: UMTA-NY-09-0083; Contract SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield Virginia 22161 Present methods of monitoring operations on the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) subway system depend upon manual Citations from TRIS -10- April 1, 1992 Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS): 1985-1991 FTA-Sponsored Research Projects data collection and a combination of manual and computer processing of information. This adds significantly to the cost and increases time required to gather and process information. The purpose of this study was to investigate more effective and efficient methods of collecting and processing rapid transit ridership data through automated methods. Included in this analysis was an evaluation of alternative methods, the selection of the preferred method/s, and the development of a system functional and technical specification that could be included in a bidding document. A variety of passenger counting techniques were reviewed for applicability and summarized into 3 areas: station-mounted equipment, track-side systems, and on-train systems. The 3 methods selected and discussed in detail as having the most potential for immediate application were: the turnstile-based system that measures passengers entering or leaving the system at individual entrances and exits; load-weighing devices that could monitor the weight of the load on the car and thus the passenger load along the route; and photographic methods that would permit manual evaluation of loads on all trains passing a point in a more efficient manner than the stationary checkers on the platform. Additional details on the 3 systems and their implementation are included in Appendices A, B, and C of this report. The study conclusions favored automated passenger counting methods; use of this document to solicit bids for supplying a turnkey system; and implementation of the recommendations as a demonstration system utilizing advanced technology concepts. 605260 PR TEST AND EVALUATION OF AN ADVANCED TRAVELER INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS SPONSORING ORG: Urban Mass Transportation Administration PERFORMING ORG: California Department of Transportation Division of Mass Transportation 1120 N Street Sacramento California 95814 CONTRACT NO: UMTA-CA-06-0242; Grant PROJECT START DATE: 92 PROJECT TERMINATION DATE: 92 SUBFILE: UMTRIS This project provides an opportunity for public and private sectors of the transportation industry to jointly test an audiotext/videotext based advanced traveler information system in suburban communities in California. The communication technologies of audiotext/videotext permit residential and business users to interact with remote computer systems over telephone lines to obtain transportation as well as other types of information. 489177 PR TRAIN-TO-WAYSIDE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM SPONSORING ORG: Urban Mass Transportation Administration PERFORMING ORG: Mass Transit Administration 300 West Lexington Street Baltimore Maryland 21020-3415 CONTRACT NO: UMTA-MD-03-3003; Grant PROJECT START DATE: 91 PROJECT TERMINATION DATE: ND SUBFILE: UMTRIS The grantee will test and evaluate a new automatic train-to-wayside identification system which can be used to assist in automatic car routing and car maintenance scheduling. 605335 DA TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE SCOOTER: AN AUTOMATED PARATRANSIT ROUTING, SCHEDULING, DISPATCHING AND MIS PROGRAM Modeling Systems Incorporated 1615 Peachtree Street, N.E. Atlanta Georgia 30-367; Urban Mass Transportation Administration 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 Dec 1990 12p REPORT NO: UMTA-NY-08-0154-91-1 SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Northwestern University, Evanston 619 Clark Street Evanston Illinois 60201 This brief report describes the installation of Modeling Systems, Inc., Computerized Trip Management System called SCOOTER. It is a fully integrated trip management system and includes modules for routing, scheduling, dispatching, complaint management, and vehicle maintenance. The first 3 functions are included within the software program SCOOTER with the SUGGEST module. The remaining 2 capabilities are reflected in the software modules GRIPE and VEMM. SCOOTER is an interactive, menu- driven system designed for the paratransit operator. It is a useful computer tool for both prearranged and demand responsive routing and scheduling, administrative record keeping, fleet planning and management analysis. This computer modeling system is designed for today's transportation planner or dispatcher requiring readily accessible information and operational control. SCOOTER provides these capabilities to improve vehicle utilization, provide more efficient routing, reduce number of missed trips, ease trip verification, and provide timely operations and administrative reporting. 496299 DA USE OF RADIOS IN RAIL TRANSIT OPERATIONS. VOLUME 1. REVIEW OF EXISTING PRACTICES Thompson, RE Battelle Memorial Institute Bellomo-McGee, Incorporated(bminc);Battelle Memori May 1989 140p REPORT NO: UMTA-IT-06-0190-89-2 SUBFILE: RRIS; UMTRIS; NTIS AVAILABLE FROM: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield Virginia 22161 The report presents the results of a review of existing conditions and practices relative to the use of radios in rail transit operations. The study was in support of the Urban Mass Transportation Administra- tion's (UMTAs) efforts to be responsive to safety issues associated with rail transit. It focussed on radio communications as conducted between train operators and their operations control center. In particular, two aspects of such usage were examined: means utilized to ensure that trains carry operable radios, and the availability and use of radio operating rules and procedures. However, other related aspects were examined as well. The study provided insight into the present situation regarding those aspects, determined potential needs relative to them, and identified possible actions which UMTA might initiate in response to those needs. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the situation as it presently exists relative to rail April 1, 1992 -11- Citations from TRIS Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS): 1985-1991 FTA-Sponsored Research Projects transit operations radio. See also Volume 2, PB90-159963. 496300 DA USE OF RADIOS IN RAIL TRANSIT OPERATIONS. VOLUME 2. TRANSIT AUTHORITIES' RESPONSES Thompson, RE; Kangas, R Battelle Memorial Institute 505 King Avenue Columbus Ohio 43201 Nov 1989 142p REPORT NO: UMTA-IT-06-0190-89-3 SUBFILE: RRIS; UMTRIS; NTIS AVAILABLE FROM: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield Virginia 22161 The report presents the results of a review of existing conditions and practices relative to the use of radios in rail transit operations. The study was in support of the Urban Mass Transportation Administra- tion's (UMTA's) efforts to be responsive to safety issues associated with rail transit. It focussed on radio communications as conducted between train operators and their operations control center. In particular, two aspects of such usage were examined: means utilized to ensure that trains carry operable radios, and the availability and use of radio operating rules and procedures. However, other related aspects were examined as well. The study provided insight into the present situation regarding those aspects, determined potential needs relative to them, and identified possible actions which UMTA might initiate in response to those needs. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the situation as it presently exists relative to rail transit operations radio. See also Volume 1, P1390-159955. 465772 DA WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY 1986 AUTOMATIC PASSENGER COUNTER PROJECT ACCURACY EVALUATION Urban Mass Transportation Administration 400 7th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590; Urban Transportation Associates, Incorporated 4480 Lake Forest Drive, Suite 302 Cincinnati Ohio 45242 1986 47p REPORT NO: UMTA-URT-20-86-1 SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Northwestern U Library, Evanston/UC Berkeley The purpose of the 1986 WMATA Automatic Passenger Counting (APC) Accuracy Evaluation was to complete WMATA's 1984-85 project experience with APC technology. The 1984-85 project demonstrated APC capability by analyzing 5 WMATA routes and preparing recommendations for route improvements based on APC collected data; it did not include a formal APC accuracy evaluation. This 1986 APC evaluation was performed to assist WMATA in determining the role of APC technology in their total data collection effort. The 1986 project produced approximately 18,000 observed boardings/deboardings and consisted of over 400 sample trips. This evaluation represents the largest, most thorough accuracy evaluation of APC technology ever performed. The Urban Transportation Associates (UTA) provided APC equipment and analytic services for this APC project, namely: 3 APC units, 8 DC signpost transmitters and 1 month lease period plus preparation of WMATA's analyses. During October 1986, 3 APC equipped WMATA buses were deployed on the Rhode Island bus line. Experienced checkers rode selected trips on the APC equipped buses and performed standard WMATA ride checks, noting time, boardings, deboardings, and passenger load at each bus stop. The APC system produced a corresponding listing, thus allowing a detailed analysis of manual/APC concurrence to be conducted. Conclusions state that UTAs APC system produced a total boarding count equal to 99.7 percent of total WMATA checker boarding counts, and 98.4 percent of total WMATA checker deboarding counts. UTAs APC system counted total boardings/deboardings as accurately as experienced WMATA checkers. The concurrence between APC and manual counts were consistent throughout the project. Only available to the public through the interlibrary loan services of Regional Repositories/Document Delivery Centers of the Transportation Library, Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois 60208 and Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720. Click HERE for graphic. PART 2. OTHER RESEARCH PROJECTS AVAILABILITY: Documents cited in the bibliography include an availablilty statement. Look for the source following the statement "AVAILABLE FROM:" in each record. Click HERE for graphic. Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS): 1985-1991 Other Research Projects 489821 DA 1988 APTA RAPID TRANSIT CONFERENCE HELD IN BUFFALO, NEW YORK American Public Transit Association 1201 New York Avenue, N Washington D.C. 20005 1988 v.p. SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: American Public Transit Association 1201 New York Avenue, NW Washington D.C. 20005 Papers included: Smart cards as an intelligent fare medium (B. Waters); Recent improvements to NFTA's fare collection equipment (M.A. Fabian); NFTA's Transit Violation Bureau--staffing an procedures (DJ. Luh); Consideration in fare policy (A.F Leach) Evaluation of CTA fare structure options (E.R. Sawyer); Secure transit passes; GTO inverter system applications (B. Henderson) Baltimore Metro overview (N. Kiladis); Utilities in the critical path o a critical path (RJ. Ninahan); Status of the SCRTD metro rail project (W.J. Rhine); Developing a privatization policy (M.S. Siegel) Exclusivity of railroad corridors for transit; Recent developments in transit signage; The US consultant and transit overseas--status of the Singapore Transit System; Meeting the personnel needs of the future; OCC's and PC's (P. Bishop); Metro's project management strategy Be proactive (R.K Sandaas); Santa Clara County Transportation Agency views Project Management Oversight (G.A. Smith); Demystifying the Project Management Oversight Consultant (WJ. Rhine) Implementing computerized material management systems; Project Management Oversight a "Value Added" function; Project Management Oversight: SEPTA's experience (E. Magro); Effective strategic for records and information management at transit authorities (MJ. Huber); Stations that open and close automatically on the Long Island Rail Road (T Waring); Proposed improvements to the Long Island Road Jamaica station complex (A. Mcevoy); European development in station planning, design and operation (J.B. Mraic); Use of system level ridership forecast in rail station design (J. Pachucki); Howard street retail/transit center (J.W Davies); Colma BART statio AA/DEIS--"Team effort wins" (D.M. Claver); Accessible rail transit (M. Bayne); Electrical power substation design (R.E. Marcin); Wayne junction substation modernization (R.B. Fischer); Substations: Standard or prefabricated ... It's your choice (S.R. Lee); Traction power system for the downtown Seattle Transit Project; Communication an train control for Chicago Southwest transit project; Energy conservation in traction power system design; Detection of low current fault in transit systems; Optimizing train operation with existing substation capacity; Rail flange lubrication application overview (R.P. Reiff); comparative study of turnout design principles as practiced in Europe and North America (B. Jackson); Contact rail deicing (R.J. Ganeriwal); IDTS: A flexible data transmission system; Upgrading of Montreal's Metro operation control center; Signalling innovations on the Baltimore Metro; Buffalo's Metro rail system; Cultural differences--Signaling comparisons commuter rapid transit light rail on the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority; Is the operation control center safety critical? Control centers: training for safe decision making (PATCO); Lightwave comes to PATCO; and Rapid transit computer applications. List continues on TRIS 489822-489823. 483659 DA A COMPARISON OF SOME NEW LIGHT RAIL AND AUTOMATED-GUIDEWAY SYSTEMS Fox, GD Transportation Research Board Transportation Research Board Special Report N221 1989 pp 98-1 10 5 Tab. 9 Ref. SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Transportation Research Board Publications Office 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington D.C. 20418 The past decade has seen dramatic developments in urban rail transit, particularly in the field of light rail transit (LRT). At the same time, several proprietary automated systems have been developed and deployed, often claiming superior levels of service and cost-effective- ness. Data are now becoming available that make it possible to check, for the first time, how well the new automated-guideway transit (AGT) systems are meeting their promoters' claims, and to compare such systems with the new conventional LRT systems. Methodologies are presented to collect and screen performance data from different systems in a uniform manner, and examples are developed to show how these data can be used to compare modes using actual operating information to the maximum extent. When new AGT systems are compared with new LRT systems, or when AGT and LRT are compared on identical alignments, it appears that the cost of additional maintenance and supervising staff and additional "non-staff' budget may exceed the savings that AGT systems achieve by eliminating operators. Although the new AGT systems represent a further advance in the development of urban transit technological capabilities, and reflect great credit on those who have built and financed them, they may also contain the seeds of future problems. Having a significantly higher construction cost per mile than LRT, urban areas with AGT will tend to have smaller rail networks than equivalent areas selecting LRT Being proprietary systems in limited use, they may experience future procurement problems, particularly if the promoter goes out of business. Being a contemporary, high-technology product, there is also a high risk of obsolescence in future years. This paper appears in Transportation Research Board Special Report No. 221, Light Rail Transit: New System Successes at Affordable Prices - Papers presented at the National Conference on Light Rail Transit, May 8-11, 1988, San Jose, California, Conducted by the Transportation Research Board. 493894 DA A LOOK AT WHAT SOME STATES ARE DOING. TEXAS APT SYSTEM IS A FIRST American Association of State Highway & Transp Off AASHTO Quarterly VOL. 69 NO. 1 Jan 1990 p 14 SUBFILE: HRIS; UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: American Association of State Highway & Transp Off 444 North Capitol Street, NW, Suite 22-5 Washington D.C. 20001 The Las Colinas Area Personal Transit (APT) system is the first application of people mover technology in a planned mixed use community in the United States. The fully automated, driverless system operating on its own guideway, serves the Urban Center, a 960 acre complex of multi-family residential and commercial buildings. Started in 1970, Las Colinas has a residential population of about 100,000 and a daytime population of around 150,000. The system uses an automatic train control system which includes automatic train operation, automatic train protection and automatic line supervision subsystems. 455343 DA A NEW CONCEPT OF RAILWAY SIGNALLING FOR THE DUSSELDORF AND DUISBURG METROS April 1, 1992 -13- Citations from TRIS Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS): 1985-1991 Other Research Projects Rohr, G (Rheinische Bahngesellschaft Ag Dusseldorf) Casa Editrice la Fiaccola Vie e Trasporti VOL. 54 NO. 531 Oct 1985 pp 591-596 Italian SUBFILE: UMTRIS; TRRL; IRRD AVAILABLE FROM: Casa Editrice la Fiaccola Via Ravizza 62 Milan Italy In Duisburg and Dusseldorf sections of the existing tram network are being converted into a rapid transit system to come into service in 1988-9. Two new tunnel sections will be built for the new system, which will be provided with a railway type signalling system. In both cities the new metro will be integrated with the remainder of the tram system. This article presents a technical description of the project, including details of power supplies, communication systems and rolling stock. 493432 DA A NEW ELECTRICAL SYSTEM FOR BUSES Johansson, M Transportforskningsberedningen TFB Meddelande N44 1988 17p Swedish SUBFILE: UMTRIS; TRRL; IRRD AVAILABLE FROM: Transportforskningsberedningen Box 2242 Stockholm Sweden This report describes a new electrical system for buses and coaches, based on multiplex technology and serial communication. The system is developed by TVAB (Toecksfors Vorkstads Ab). The system is in actual operation in a bus at SL (Stockholm Local Traffic Authority) mainly for test purposes. The paper describes the background and purpose of the project as well as the technical design. (Author/TRRL) 610620 DA A REPORT ON THE FEASIBILITY OF ALTERNATIVE GROUND TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS Cole, D; Patterson, D University of Michigan Transp Research Institute 2901 Baxter Road Ann Arbor Michigan 48109-2150 Jun 1990 94p REPORT NO: UMTRI 90-16 SUBFILE: HRIS; UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: University of Michigan Transp Research Institute 2901 Baxter Road Ann Arbor Michigan 48109-2150 This study investigates the future role of alternative ground transportation systems in the United States. The central research questions concern the development and use of alternative modes of land transportation that can substitute for traditional gasoline/diesel fuel powered motor vehicles in the 2000-2010 period. Two of the alternative systems examined in this report, Electric/hybrid vehicles and increased mass transit, are regarded as possible substitutes for traditional motor vehicle transportation. The remaining two technologies, improved internal combustion engines (ICE) and intelligent vehicle highway systems (IVHS), are seen, in their most likely variants, as potential improvements to current 1990 motor vehicle technology. This study describes the four alternative technologies; discusses their status in terms of development and ongoing research; discusses technical and social barriers, if any, to their future adoption; and forecasts use of these technologies to move passengers and freight in the future transportation system of the United States in 200-2010. 496447 PR A REPORT ON THE FEASIBILITY OF ALTERNATIVE GROUND Citations from TRIS TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS INVESTIGATORS: Cole, D SPONSORING ORG: Chevron Research Company PERFORMING ORG: University of Michigan Transp Research Institute 2901 Baxter Road Ann Arbor Michigan 48109-2150 PROJECT START DATE: 8911 PROJECT TERMINATION DATE: 9004 SUBFILE: UMTRIS UMTRIS will perform the analysis and deliver a study concerning the likely adoption and use of feasible alternatives to traditional fossil fuel vehicle systems. The technologies proposed for review are the following: (1) electric vehicles, (2) hydrogen vehicles, (3) intelligent vehicle highway systems, and (4) increased use of mass transit systems. The basis for the evaluation will be the technical, social, economic, and political factors shaping the feasibility and probability of commercial development of these technologies in the future. The time frame for this evaluation will include the present through the year 2010. The final report will use a special matrix methodology that will allow comparisons across the technologies and will provide a means for ranking the feasibility of each alternative. 469525 DA ACCIDENTS INVOLVING LORRIES AND BUSES-AVOIDING THEM BY AUTOMATIC PREVENTION OF LOCKING. EVALUATION OF INQUIRIES AT SITE OF ACCIDENT Otte, D; Nehmzow, J Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, West Germany Unfallchirurgische Klinik 3000 Hannover 61 West Germany 1986 85p German SUBFILE: HRIS; UMTRIS; NTIS AVAILABLE FROM: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield Virginia 22161 In the context of local road accident inquiries in a large city, it was of particular interest to see which vehicles were involved in the accidents and to what extent the accident was affected by the presence of an automatic locking preventer (ABS), such as has been used for some years on vehicles braked by compressed air. Only accidents (177) with commercial vehicles and buses braked by compressed air were considered. The environment in which the accident occurred with the individual groups of vehicles in the traffic (lorries, private cars, lorries with trailers, buses, motorcycles and bicycles, pedestrians) and the road behavior, and the speed during the accident are first explained. Due to the results of the investigation, it was found that 7.1% of the accidents with ABS vehicles were avoidable. In 87% of them, there was damage to the lorry in the primary collision. 9.9% of the commercial vehicles also suffered secondary damage. Complete avoidability due to ABS systems could not be recorded for any pedestrian, motorcycle and bicycle accidents. 482854 DA ADELAIDE'S AUTOMATED BUSWAYS. FROM THE BOOK TRANSIT, LAND USE & URBAN FORM Wayte, A Texas University, Austin Center for the Study of American Architecture Austin Texas 78712 0-934951-01-2 1988 pp 107-118 Tabs. Phots. Refs. SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Texas University, Austin Center for the Study of American Architecture Austin Texas 78712 This article describes the history, development, and technical details Citations from TRIS -14- April 1, 1992 Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS): 1985-199 Other Research of the Adelaide busway. The planning and decision process that resulted in the construction of this first application of the O-Bahn dual mode bus guidance technology to a high speed operation was long and controversial exercise. By contrast, the construction an operation have been remarkably problem free for a new technology and the system has proved to be highly attractive to its potential users 608060 DA ADVANCED HIGHWAY/VEHICLE PROGRAMS - A TEXAS VIEW Rillings, JH Society of Automotive Engineers Vehicle Highway Automation Tech and Policy Issues Aug 1989 p 33-39 REPORT NO: SP-791 SUBFILE: HRIS; UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Society of Automotive Engineers Commonwealth Drive Warrendale Pennsylvania 15096 The paper describes the functional concepts of an intelligent vehicle highway system which is a subset of future applications of advance technology to transportation. This subset is operationally oriented. This paper describes the relationship of the State of Texas to the Mobility 2000 group, including several related efforts in Texas to utilize advanced technology to improve safety and mobility. One specific advanced technology project, sponsored by the State Department o Highways and Public Transportation, the Federal Highway Administration, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Association is described in detail. The technical task to develop algorithms for "real time" optimization of traffic signal systems. The technical task is for the development of a vehicle which is capable of braking and steering via inputs from video cameras. This system could be the basis of collision avoidance system in a vehicle that did not emit either laser light or radar. The final section describes the outlook for the development of an advanced transportation technology initiative in the United States, including current efforts for Congressional action Paper Number 891703 presented at the Future Transportation Technology Conference and Exposition, Vancouver, BC, Canada August 7-10, 1989. 451113 DA ADVANCED SIGNAL SYSTEM AT PITTSBURGH LRT YARD Murphy-Richter Publishing Company Progressive Railroading VOL. 28 NO. 8 Aug 1985 pp 37-38 2 Phot SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Murphy-Richter Publishing Company 2 North Wacker Drive Chicago Illinois 60606 Port Authority of Allegheny county has a sophisticated Yard Signa Control System at its new South Hills Village Car Storage an Maintenance Area. The System covers main vehicle maintenance an storage areas, fare box removal platform, crew origination point an other ancillary facilities. This Transcontrol signal installation contain special control circuit features such as loss of shunt protection, tim locking of signals, automatic restoration of switches, staggering o switch machine operations, and through routing. While present service to Pittsburgh suburbs is operated with PCC cars, they will displaced over the next 15 years by longer articulated Light Rail Vehicles, first units of which are already on the property. Signal design considerations had to be given to accommodating two entirely different cars. Details of various signal system features are given. 486293 DA ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES: VEHICLE AND AUTOMOBILE GUIDANCE Koltnow, PG Transportation Research Board Transportation Research Board Special Report N220 1988 pp 42.5-429 2 Ref. SUBFILE: HRIS; UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Transportation Research Board Publications Office 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington D.C. 20418 Today Automatic Vehicle Control (AVC) is getting a close, hard look as a feasible long-term tool to meet a variety of transportation objectives. As the cost of congestion and accidents goes up, complex and expensive countermeasures become more realistic. AVC has a number of potential operational benefits. They include elimination of congestion on guideways, improved trip-time predictability, increased vehicle capacity at lower cost than conventional freeways carrying manually operated vehicles, elimination of traffic disruption from off- road incidents, reduction in right-of-way requirements for new facilities, and reduction of accidents stemming from driver error or impairment. This paper discusses advances that have been made in AVC technology and the various concepts for automatic highways. This paper appears in "Transportation Research Board Special Report 220, A Look Ahead: Year 2020, Proceedings of the Conference on Long-Range Trends and Requirements for the Nation's Highway and Public Transit Systems, June 22-24, 1988, Washington, D.C. 604479 DA ADVANCED TRAIN CONTROL ADVANCES, SLOWLY Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation Railway Age Feb 1991 pp 60-61 SUBFILE: RRIS; UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Railway Age Subscription Department, 345 Hudson Street New York New York 10014 The article calls attention to the June 1991 symposium on advanced Train Control, in Denver, Colorado. The symposium will have a broad- ranging coverage of ATCs, with discussions on the role of technology in meeting freight-transportation market-place demands. The business case for advanced train control will be covered as well as financing options and the implementation of new control systems. Presentations on new ATCS applications in Europe, Australia, and Japan will also be made. The article also discusses the question of safety and safeguards regarding the equipment itself and the fail-safe nature of any new system that will control train movements. Personnel training is another concern. Experience at Union Pacific and Burlington Northern is described: both are moving carefully into sub-system applications, with train control somewhere down the road. Canadian experience (Canadian National and CP Rail) is also described. 395285 PR ADVANCED TRAIN CONTROL SYSTEM SPONSORING ORG: Association of American Railroads; Railway Association of Canada PERFORMING ORG: ARINC Research Corporation; Transportation and Distribution Associates, Inc; Lapp (Philip A) Limited 2-551 Riva Road Annapolis Maryland 21401 1818 Market Street Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19103 CONTRACT NO: OVP-88-010 PROJECT START DATE: 85 PROJECT TERMINATION DATE: ND April 1, 1992 -15- Citations from TRIS Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS): 1985-1991 Other Research Projects SUBFILE: UMTRIS The Advanced Train Control System (ATCS) is a closed loop, command, control, communications and information system that uses advanced microprocessors and digital data communications to link the dispersed elements of the railroad. The locomotives, track forces and waysided devices are connected to the central dispatch office and to the key managers. The Association of American Railroads (AAR) is developing, through their systems engineering contractor, ARINC, specifications for the system logic, called "control flow specifications' and is developing tools to further evaluate communications specifications for the railroads. AAR is also actively supporting configuration management of the specifications. Specifications are available for the cost of reproduction in print and magnetic media through the AAR. 618756 DA ADVANCED VEHICLE AND HIGHWAY TECHNOLOGIES Transportation Research Board Special Report No 232 Transportation Research Board 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington D.C. 20418 1991 98p Bibl, Refs. 2 App. SUBFILE: HRIS; UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Transportation Research Board Publications Office 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington D.C. 20418 A Transportation Research Board committee of experts in vehicle and electronics manufacturing, transportation administration, public policy, and highway safety undertook a study of intelligent vehicle-highway systems (IVHS) that addressed the overall objectives for a national IVHS initiative and methods by which the program could be managed effectively. The committee reviewed experience in the United States with existing systems that incorporate some IVHS technology; programs under way to develop and demonstrate advanced systems in the United States, Europe, and Japan; and proposals for new U.S. programs from Mobility 2000 and from others. It also considered alternative models for managing and implementing research and for organizing public-private cooperative efforts. Specifically, three topics were examined. First, the committee proposed a vision for the potential development of IVHS. Second, the committee considered the process necessary to define a system architecture. Finally, the committee examined issues concerning appropriate public- and private-sector roles in research and operation of IVHS and appropriate assignment of responsibilities within the public sector with reference to the system design and management issues that are likely to arise during IVHS development during the coming decade. This report contains the committee's findings. Its conclusions and recommendations are addressed to those organizations that would be able to act on the committee's recommendations: DOT, Congress, IVHS America, the individual state departments of transportation, and private firms in the automotive, electronics, engineering, and communications industries. 469741 DA AFC: PICKING THE RIGHT SYSTEM deKozan, RL Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation Railway Age VOL. 189 NO. 4 Apr 1988 2p SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Engineering Societies Library 345 East 47th Street New York New York 10017 Washington's fare collection system is a model for new, high- ridership transit networks. Other cities, like New York and Miami, have characteristics requiring a different approach. 608056 DA AN ADVANCED DRIVER INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR NORTH AMERICA: A STRAWMAN PROPOSAL Rillings, JH Society of Automotive Engineers Vehicle Highway Automation Tech and Policy Issues Aug 1989 pp 1-9 12 Tabs. 6 Refs. REPORT NO: SP-791 SUBFILE: HRIS; UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Society of Automotive Engineers 400 Commonwealth Drive Warrendale Pennsylvania 15096 Under the leadership of the Federal Highway Administration, a team of experts from government, industry, and universities developed a strawman proposal for an advanced driver information system for North America. The proposal describes an ADIS for the year 2005 including its functions, vehicle equipment, support infrastructure, evolution, standards, regulatory issues, and R&D needs. The strawman is intended to simulate discussion, analyses, and further proposals, leading to a coordinated national program with well-defined roles for the public and private sectors. Paper Number 891682 presented at the Future Transportation Technology Conference and Exposition, Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 7-10, 1989. 616404 DA AN AMERICAN OBSERVATION OF IVHS IN JAPAN Ervin, RD University of Michigan Transp Research Institute 2901 Baxter Road Ann Arbor Michigan 48109-2150 1991 62p Figs. Tabs. Phots. 40 Ref. SUBFILE: HRIS; UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: University of Michigan Transp Research Institute 2901 Baxter Road Ann Arbor Michigan 48109-2150 This document provides a broad overview of the development and application of Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS) in Japan. The report derives largely from a Study Mission to Japan conducted in March of 1991. It reflects one American's perspective on what was shown in Japan, presented in Japanese publications, and learned through various personal interviews. Sections 1 and 2 provide, respectively, an executive summary and introduction to the report. In Sections 3 and 4, the Japanese road system and its usage are presented. Section 5 discusses the major government agencies having jurisdictional authority in areas that may be impacted by IVHS. In Section 6, the rather advanced state of traffic management in Japan is presented. This matter is highly significant to IVHS implementation since the traffic management system constitutes a basic building block for IVHS infrastructure. Section 7 begins the immediate discussion of IVHS developments in Japan. It outlines certain additional organizations which have been created to foster collaborative projects and discusses each of the projects in terms of content and impact on the trajectory of the overall Japanese program. In Section 8, observations are presented on the state of technology taking each of ten functional areas under consideration. In Section 9, a set of miscellaneous "application issues" are addressed including, for example, tort liability, aging drivers, and financing the infrastructure. This discussion addresses both socioeconomic and market-based subjects which will bear upon the particular form of IVHS that will be deployed in Japan. Section 10 provides a summary view of the type of Advanced Traveler Information System that is likely to be implemented on a wide scale Citations from TRIS -16- April 1, 1992 Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS): 1985-1991 Other Research Projects in Japan beginning in about 1993. Finally, in Section II, observations are made on simple indicators of Japanese industry preparing to do business in IVHS products and services. 609795 DA AN APPROACH TO THE AUTOMATION OF THE SCHEDULING OF URBAN DELIVERIES. PAPER PRESENTED AT THE AUST-RALASIAN TRANSPORT RESEARCH FORUM; PART 2 O'Donnell, P; Wilson, D; Lee, M New South Wales Department of Transport GPO Box 1620 Sydney New South Wales Australia 0-7305-7800-3 VOL. 15 NO. Pt 2 1990 pp 489-504 13 Ref. SUBFILE: HRIS; UMTRIS; TRRL; IRRD AVAILABLE FROM: New South Wales Department of Transport GPO Box 1620 Sydney New South Wales Australia Though there are now many software packages that can develop urban delivery schedules, there is a reluctance on the part of those involved with the management of the transportation systems to use automatic vehicle scheduling packages. The lack of confidence in such packages is, in part, the result of several failed implementation attempts. These failures can often be attributed to factors such as the installation of inappropriate software and the inability to deal with industrial relations problems. This paper describes an approach to the implementation of computerized load planning support. This method places a great emphasis on the "human' aspects of the system implementation. (Author/TRRL) 483696 DA AN EVALUATION OF AUTOMATED AND CONVENTIONAL RAIL TECHNOLOGY FOR THE CENTURY FREEWAY RAIL LINE Stanger, RM Transportation Research Board Transportation Research Board Special Report N221 1989 pp 635-644 2 Tab. SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Transportation Research Board Publications Office 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington D.C. 20418 The Century Rail Transit Line will operate for 17 mi in the median of the Century Freeway now under construction in Los Angeles. It will also extend initially for 3 mi on exclusive right-of-way into the large El Segundo aerospace employment center. In 1986 the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission staff evaluated the potential of looking first at improvements short of full automation, then at the benefits of full automation based on the experience of VAL and SkyTrain. It notes that the real benefit of full automation may come not so much from trade-offs between capital and operating costs, but from the revenue potential of frequent, all-day operation. The paper then compares the use of automated-guideway transit vehicles with a conventional light rail vehicle modified to be fully automated. It concludes that automating the Century Line appears to be justified, and that the use of conventional light rail vehicles modified to allow unmanned operation should be an integral part of a decision to automate. This paper appears in Transportation Research Board Special Report No. 221, Light Rail Transit: New System Successes at Affordable Prices - Papers presented at the National Conference on Light Rail Transit, May 8-11, 1988, San Jose, California, Conducted by the Transportation Research Board. 571477 DA AN INTER-VEHICLE COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATIONS Aoki, M; Fujii, H Automotive Automation Limited ISATA In Pursuit In Technical Excellence: 22nd Vol. 1 1990 pp 127-134 English SUBFILE: UCITS; TLIB No abstract available. 455227 DA APPLICATION AND FINANCING OF GERMAN AGT SYSTEMS Meyer, U (Federal Ministry for Research and Technology) Institute for Transportation, Incorporated S VOL 19 NO. 1 1985 pp 65-72 SUBFILE: EIT; UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Engineering Societies Library 345 East 47th Street New York New York 10017 The research and development program for automated guideway transit systems in the Federal Republic of Germany is addressed. A review is provided of the program goals and the demonstration that resulted from the program. The program funding method, funding rates and program phases are presented. The paper concludes with the future outlook of these systems in Germany and elsewhere. (Author abstract) 615083 DA APPLICATIONS OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES IN TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, AUGUST 18-21,1991 Stephanedes, YJ; Sinha, KC American Society of Civil Engineers 345 East 47th Street New York New York 10017-2398 0-87262-818-3 1991 484p Figs. Tabs. Phots. Refs. SUBFILE: HRIS AVAILABLE FROM: American Society of Civil Engineers 345 East 47th Street New York New York 10017-2398 These proceedings consist of extended abstracts of papers presented at the Second International Conference held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 18-21, 1991. It is concerned with the challenges and opportunities faced by the transportation engineering profession as it prepares to enter the 21st century. The papers focus on such topics as: (1) automatic vehicle monitoring, (2) advanced traveler information systems, (3) image processing and vehicle detection, (4) real-time traffic control, (5) advanced rail systems, and (6) automated incident detection. In addition, these papers present specific applications of these different technologies and national and state programs with particularly important results, including SHRP innovation projects. Sponsored by the Urban Transportation Division and the Highway Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Federal Highway Administration, Minnesota Department of Transportation, The Center for Transportation Studies, Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Minnesota. 494706 DA APPLICATIONS OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY TO EASE TRAFFIC CONGESTION. STANDING COMMITTEE ON RESEARCH Davies, P American Association of State Highway & Transp Off American Assn of State Hwy & Transp Official Proc 1988 pp April 1, 1992 -17- Citations from TRIS Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS): 1985-1991 Other Research 117-123 SUBFILE: HRIS; UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: American Association of State Highway & Transportation 444 North Capitol Street, NW, Suite 225 Washington D.C. 20001 Assessments of several advanced technologies for relieving traffic congestion were made and found to provide substantial returns on investments. However, prior to embracing any of these technologies, implementation considerations such as funding and jurisdictional concerns, and user acceptance must be addressed. The three technologies and their assessed systems include: Driver Information Systems-- Computerized rationalization of direction signing, Radio Data System (RDS) for information broadcasting, Self-contained onboard navigation systems, Electronic route guidance systems, and Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI) for automated toll collection; Advanced Traffic Control Systems--Optimized vehicle actuation, Fixed-time coordination, Partially adaptive coordination, Fully adaptive coordination, and Ramp control; Automatic Vehicle Control (AVC) Systems--Because many of these systems are still in the development stage, complete assessments as to their benefits could not be determined at this time. Although many more advanced technologies are described in this paper, only the above mentioned were selected for in depth assessment. Selected Committee Meeting Papers presented at the Seventy-Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials in Wichita, Kansas, December 5-6, 1988. 471404 DA APPROVAL PROCEDURES FOR AUTOMATIC EQUIPMENT OF NEW METRO SYSTEMS Le Trung, B Institute National Recherche sur Transp et Securite Recherche Transports Securite 1986 pp 31-37 1 Fig. 4 Tab. 4 Phot. REPORT NO: Special Issue SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Institute National Recherche sur Transp et Securite 2, Avenue du General Malleret-Joinville, BP 34 94114 Arcueil Cedex France This paper deals with the safety-worthiness assessment of automatic equipment used in dedicated guideway means of transport, for the use of the French Ministry of Transportation. It details the implementation of different analysis methods to ensure this assessment. 468547 DA AUTOMATED DIAL-A-RIDE DISPATCHING IN ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Reinke, D; Moscovich, J; Rhyner, G; Pultz, S Crain and Associates, Incorporated 120 Santo Margarita Avenue Menlo Park California 9402.5 Jul 1987 123p SUBFILE: HRIS; UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield Virginia 22161 The Automated Dial-a-ride Dispatching demonstration began in January of 1980 to demonstrate and test the use of an automated system for dispatching dial-a-ride vehicles. The demonstration consisted of a gradual changeover from manual dispatching by contractor employees at five separate sites to automated dispatching at a central location staffed by OCTD employees. Key elements of the demonstration included a dispatching system using a special computer program to determine vehicle routing and stop sequencing, and a digital communication system that automatically transmits dispatching information to the appropriate vehicles, eliminating the need for voice communication. The demonstration did result in some managerial improvements due to the centralized dispatching function. 479732 DA AUTOMATED MAINTENANCE AT MENDOCINO TRANSIT Turner, S American Society of Civil Engineers 345 East 47th Street New York New York 10017 0-87262-508-7 Jun 1985 pp 547-553 SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: American Society of Civil Engineers 345 East 47th Street New York New York 10017 This paper describes the set-up and daily use of Fleet Controller, a vehicle maintenance cost control microcomputer program, by the Mendocino Transit Authority. In Microcomputer Applications Within the Urban Transportation Environment: Proceedings of the National Conference on Microcomputers in Urban Transportation held June 19-21, 1985. 611820 DA AUTOMATED PARATRANSIT ROUTING AND SCHEDULING USING A HIGHWAY NETWORK MODEL Bower, DJ Transportation Research Board Transportation Research Record N1292 1991 pp 15-23 11 Fig. 1 Tab. SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Transportation Research Board Publications Office 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington D.C. 20418 The quality of vehicle routing and scheduling has a great impact on the operating cost and service quality of any paratransit service. The difficulties associated with many-to-many trip requests, vehicle availability and capacity constraints, traffic patterns, and geographical obstacles are such that the process, when done manually, is error prone, labor intensive, and difficult to optimize. The development of computer software that creates paratransit schedules can, in addition to addressing these problems, significantly reduce the cost of generating schedules and improve the overall efficiency of providing service. COMSIS Corporation has developed the COMSIS Routing and Scheduling System (CRSS) to address these issues. It uses a highway network to model point-to-point travel times that recognizes geo- graphical obstacles. CRSS takes a set of trip requests entered by means of a paratransit management information system and generates vehicle manifests. The program also tracks the estimated vehicle locations and remaining vehicle capacity throughout the day. The software is processed in batch after all requests have been received. CRSS has been implemented at a number of paratransit agencies, and comparisons have been made. Manually generated schedules have been compared with CRSS schedules in the areas of service quality and operating cost and the results are favorable. Areas for further development have been identified. This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1292, Specialized Transportation 1991, Proceedings of a Conference, October 28-31, 1990, Sarasota, Florida. 496830 DA AUTOMATED PEOPLE MOVER. PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTOMATED Citations from TRIS -18- April 1, 1992 Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS): 1985-1991 Other Research Projects PEOPLE MOVERS, MARCH 13-15,1989, MIAMI Institute for Transportation, Incorporated Journal of Advanced Transportation VOL. 23 NO. 2-3 1989 pp 89-97 Figs. Refs. SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Institute for Transportation, Incorporated P.O. Box 4670, Duke Station Durham North Carolina 27706 E.S. Neumann discusses the marketability of advanced transit technology. W Kulash proposes in his paper that the affordability of people mover systems in suburban activity centres, is determined by the intensity and characteristics of the land use in the centre. These characteristics, in turn, are determined by decisions largely within the control of the individual site owners. The paper identifies the land use decisions that are most important to the financial feasibility of people movers and suggests guidelines, for planning land use in suburban activity centres in a manner that enhances people mover feasibility. See also pages 99-127 of the journal. 399644 DA AUTOMATED PEOPLE MOVERS FIND DIVERSE APPLICATIONS Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation International Railway Journal VOL. 25 NO. 3 Mar 1985 4p 1 Fig. 5 Phot. SUBFILE: TRRL; IRRD; UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation 345 Hudson Street New York New York 10014 The term automated people mover (APM) covers a wide range of different designs but all have in common automatic operation which can be controlled by microchips. They provide an efficient, safe and convenient method of transport in such places as city centres, business districts, universities, airports and amusement parks. Being a new concept in transport, ideas for APM technology and application developed rapidly and to promote the exchange of ideas an international conference on people movers has been held in Miami. This article describes several APMS from locations throughout the world in order to demonstrate their versatility and potential. The systems include the Aramis System in Paris, the Flydaway-under consideration in Cardiff, Otis Shuttle Transit Systems in Florida and Austria, the Metromover in Miami, the West Berlin M-Bahn System and the Peoplemovers at Gatwick and Birmingham airports. (TRRL) 469270 DA AUTOMATED TRANSIT VEHICLE SIZE CONSIDERATIONS Anderson, JE Institute for Transportation, Incorporated Journal of Advanced Transportation VOL. 20 NO. 2 1986 pp 97-105 Refs. SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Institute for Transportation, Incorporated 1410 Duke University Road Durham North Carolina 27705 Synthesis of cost-effective transit alternatives using automated vehicles requires consideration of a wide range of factors that are moot in determination of the optimum size of manually driven vehicles where the need to amortize driver wages dominates the economics. Discussions of many of these factors have appeared in previous papers. This article brings them together into consideration of one specific system characteristic: the optimum automated transit-vehicle size. (Author abstract) 482870 DA AUTOMATIC CREW SCHEDULING: NEW OPERATING MANAGEMENT AND SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES. FROM THE BOOK COMPUTER SCHEDULING OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT Dupuis, D Elsevier Science Publishers BV Postbus 2400 1000 CK Amsterdam Netherlands 0-444-87778-9 1985 pp 145-149 SUBFILE. UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Elsevier Science Publishing Company, Incorporated 52 Vanderbilt Avenue New York New York 10017 The Commission de Transport de la Communaute urbaine de Quebec has been an active user of automatic crew scheduling techniques since 1978. The HASTUS crew scheduling system generates the favorable impacts of automatic crew scheduling on operating costs and clerical work, but further benefits arise from the day to day use of the system. Integration of the system into the data base management system is envisioned in a series of modular phases. Proceedings of a workshop held in Montreal in 1983 under the auspices of the Centre de recherche sur les transports of the Universite de Montreal. 458674 DA AUTOMATIC EQUIPMENT FOR USE IN EMERGENCIES AND VENTILATION ON THE RHINE/MAIN S-BAHN Helfrich, W Eisenbahn-Fachveriag Deine Bahn VOL. 13 NO. 11 1985 pp 666-671 5 Phot. German SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Eisenbahn-Fachverlag Am Linsenberg 16 6500 Mainz West Germany There are plans to install escalators, heating and ventilating equip- ment and equipment for use in emergency on the section of line which runs through a tunnel 3.3 km in length on the Rhine/Main S-Bahn between Frankfurt Konstablerwache station and the stations of Frankfurt-South and Frankfurt-Muehiberg. There will be smoke and heat extraction equipment and equipment to deal with flooding. 471561 DA AUTOMATIC FARE COLLECTION IN TRANSIT A SYNTHESIS OF CURRENT PRACTICE Abkowitz, M; Driscoll, MK Taylor and Francis Limited Transport Reviews VOL. 7 NO. 1 Jan 1987 pp 53-63 Refs. SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Taylor and Francis Limited Rankine Road Basingstoke Hantshire RG24 OPR England Presentation of a synthesis of several sources of information pertaining to automatic fare-collection (AFC) operations. A discussion of system requirements, and the advantages and disadvantages of system operation is included. Performance measures of reliability and AFC systems are evaluated using these measures. Conclusions concerning current AFC practice. 608059 DA AUTOMATIC LAND VEHICLE LOCATION AND NAVIGATION IN THE YEAR 2000 Karimi, HA; Krakiwsky, EJ Society of Automotive Engineers Vehicle Highway Automation Tech and Policy Issues Aug 1989 pp April 1, 1992 -19- Citations from TRIS Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS): 1985-1991 Other Research Projects 27-32 3 Fig. Tab. 19 Ref. REPORT NO: SP-791 SUBFILE: HRIS; UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Society of Automotive Engineers 400 Commonwealth Drive Warrendale Pennsylvania 15096 The advancement in technologies of computers, mass storage devices, positioning techniques, and digital communications links have made automation of navigational activities possible. The recent trend has been towards building navigational information systems. Two generations of these information systems are proposed. For the development of each generation a different design methodology and set of techniques are employed. Second generation systems are, however, envisioned to be enhanced versions of first generation systems, but are knowledge-based. Paper Number 891686 presented at the Future Transportation Technology Conference and Exposition, Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 7-10, 1989. 462028 DA AUTOMATIC PASSENGER COUNTING du Preez, W; Dehlen, GL National Institute for Transport & Rd Res, S Af, P.O. Box 395 Pretoria 0001 Transvaal South Africa Jan 1985 16p 7 Fig. 13 Ref. 1 App. REPORT NO: RT/4 SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: National Institute for Transport & Rd Res, S Af P.O. Box 395 Pretoria 0001 Transvaal South Africa The advent of the microprocessor has made it feasible to count bidirectional pedestrian or passenger movements automatically, obviating the need for counts by human observers. At the request of a bus operator and the associated local, provincial, and central government authorities, the NITRR developed a prototype microprocessor-based passenger counter, and evaluated it on a bus in service. The report describes the principles of this and similar systems operating in South Africa and overseas, gives an indication of the accuracy achievable, and lists a draft set of requirements for APCs formulated by a committee of the Department of Transport. 494410 DA AUTOMATIC SLACK ADJUSTERS: ARE THEY GIVING YOU A BREAK? Farell, C Friendship Publications, Incorporated Bus Ride VOL. 26 NO. 2 Apr 1990 pp 58-60 2 Fig. 1 Tab. 1 Phot. SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Friendship Publications, Incorporated West 2627 Providence, P.O. Box 1472 Spokane Washington 99210- 1472 The basics of S-cam brakes which use automatic slack adjusters as well as the importance of the air chamber stroke are discussed along with the workings and value of automatic slack adjusters. Although automatic slack adjusters are more efficient and less expensive than mechanics, they do need to be checked from time to time to make certain that they are functioning properly. 491419 DA AUTOMATIC TICKETING ON LONDON UNDERGROUND Wariless, D; Hart, M Taylor and Francis Limited Transport Reviews VOL. 9 NO. 4 Oct 1989 pp 361-370 Phots. SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Taylor and Francis Limited Rankine Road Basingstoke Hampshire RG24 OPR England London Underground is currently going through a revolution in its fare collection systems. Magnetically encoded tickets are being introduced, obtainable from ticket office or self-service machines, which are then checked automatically at start or finish of journey in the Underground's central zone. The microprocessor controlled equipment handles all accounting aspects of fare collection, because it is all part of a computer-based network with centralized monitoring and control. The machinery was progressively installed from April 1987 to December 1988. This paper describes the history of the system, describes the new ticket and issuing machines, as well as discussing the development and project management tasks involved. 496879 DA AUTOMATIC VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION FOR CALGARY 1989 RAPID TRANSIT CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSIT ASSOCIATION HELD IN PITTSBURGH Bennett, AJ American Public Transit Association 1201 New York Avenue, NW Washington D.C. 20005 1989 p 22 SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: American Public Transit Association 1201 New York Avenue, NW Washington D.C. 20005 The paper provides a background, identifies the criteria used, discusses the development and implementation, and describes the AVI (Automatic Vehicle Identification) system and its various applications. 615356 PR AUTOMATIC VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES INVESTIGATORS: Gupta, A SPONSORING ORG: Burlington Northern Railroad PERFORMING ORG: Center for Transportation Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge Massachusetts 02139 PROJECT START DATE: ND PROJECT TERMINATION DATE: ND SUBFILE: HRIS; UMTRIS In spite of the fact that contemporary Automatic Vehicle Iden- tification (AVI) technology offers very high accuracy and convenience for keeping track of railway vehicles and cargo, the use of such technology is still at an infancy stage. One major reason for the slow acceptance of this technology is the lack of consensus among the major railroads about what standards to use. Another hurdle is the problem of integrating information collected by AVI devices with the large information systems currently in use within each railroad and across railroads. This project attempts to overcome these major obstacles. Sponsored by Burlington Northern Railroad. UPDATE AUTOMATIC VEHICLE LOCATION AND CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM ONTARIO TRANSIT PROPERTIES: PHASE 1 REPORT (FINAL) Pekilis, B; Heti, G Transportation Technology and Energy Branch, Ministry of Transportation of Ontario Sep 1991; Rev. Jan 1992 107p Figs. SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Technical Publications (TT&E Branch), Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, Room 321, Central Building, Citations from TRIS -20- April 1, 1992 Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS): 1985-1991 Other Research Projects 1201 Wilson Avenue, Downsview, Ontario, Canada M3M 1J8 This report results from a study initiated by several Ontario transit properties, together with the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO) and the Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA). The report assesses automatic Vehicle Location and Control (AVLC) systems, and their associated technologies, for small and medium ontario transit properties. The purpose of the report is to provide the background information necessary for the creation of a functional specification in preparation for a series of AVLC demonstration projects at several participating Ontario transit properties. The aim is to develop a province-wide standard that will meet the needs of the majority of properties in Ontario. During the course of this study, user requirements were identified through a survey of participating transit properties. The survey indicates that the introduction of AVLC systems in Ontario will significantly impact a property's operational and management practices. Also identified are essential, desirable, and optional system requirements. These two areas will form the basis for the development of an AVLC functional specification for Ontario. (Authors) 485844 DA AUTOMATIC VEHICLE LOCATION IN URBAN TRANSIT SYSTEMS; PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE HELD SEPTEMBER 19-21,1988, OTTAWA, CANADA Hemily, B Canadian Urban Transit Association 55 York Street, Suite 901 Toronto Ontario M5J 1R7 Canada; Transport Canada Place de Ville, Tower C, 29th Floor Ottawa Ontario K1A 0N5 Canada Sep 1988 680p Figs. Tabs. SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Canadian Urban Transit Association 55 York Street, Suite 901 Toronto Ontario M5J 1R7 Canada The Canadian Urban Transit Association, which represents urban transit operators and other transit-related organizations in Canada, organized on September 19-21, 1988 an International Conference on Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) in Urban Transit Systems. The conference, which attracted over 180 people from eleven countries, provided a unique forum to discuss the technological and managerial issues related to the development and effective use of this advanced technology. Papers presented at this conference, and contained in the Proceedings, cover the following topics: international experiences with AVL; costs and benefits of AVL; defining the transit system's needs; using AVL to provide management and planning information; alternative technological approaches to AVL; operational control strategies using AVL; real-time information systems for patrons; information systems integration; operational, organizational, and human impacts of AVL; and the future of AVL. 462784 DA AUTOMATIC VEHICLE MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FOR LOCAL PUBLIC TRANSPORT Poulissen, THG Siemens The Hague Netherlands 1986 6p SUBFILE: UMTRIS AVAILABLE FROM: Siemens The Hague Netherlands Describes the LIO-PLUS family, which is an advanced program of computer and communication systems, which can be used for guidance, information and organization of the local public transport. Lecture on the occasion of the visit of a delegation of the Traffic Committee of the Swedish Public Transport Association at Siemens in The Hague, 24 September 1986. 462086 DA AUTOMATIC V