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      <title>Implementing the National Intercity Bus Atlas (Phases II and III)



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      <description><![CDATA[NCHRP Research Report 1150: Implementation of the National Intercity Bus Atlas documents the purposes and methods of implementing and maintaining the National Intercity Bus Atlas, an online interactive map and database of the nation’s intercity bus network. The report provides a detailed account of data collection, training and engagement activities used to instruct transportation service providers on the benefits of having their data on the Intercity Bus Atlas, and  how to submit data using General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS), a user-facing platform for presenting transit schedule and route information. Further, the report documents potential applications of the Intercity Bus Atlas data in planning and policymaking. The report will be useful to state department of transportation (DOT) planners and intercity bus service providers seeking to develop and maintain the interactive online atlas of intercity bus transit services within the United States.  

In 2019 the United States Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) launched the Intercity Bus Atlas, an interactive online map of intercity bus transit services in the United States. The Intercity Bus Atlas was first developed by the American Intercity Bus Riders Association to facilitate the promotion of intercity bus use by providing comprehensive service provider, route, and scheduling information in a public facing online platform. Prior to this, there had been no publicly available national clearinghouse, list, or map of intercity bus services.

Under NCHRP Project 08-133, “Implementation of the Intercity Bus Atlas,” efforts focused on expanding the atlas by incorporating data from intercity bus service providers not yet represented in the database. Key tasks included engaging with service providers to facilitate data contributions. This involved training some providers on how to use the GTFS platform and, in some cases, directly populating the database for agencies still developing GTFS proficiency. Additionally, guidebooks were developed to support project stakeholders—including state DOTs, transportation agencies, and intercity bus service providers—in maintaining and updating the National Intercity Bus Atlas. 

The NCHRP Research Report 1150 and the following supplemental materials are available on the National Academies Press website (nap.nationalacadmies.org) by searching NCHRP Research Report 1150: Implementation of the National Intercity Bus Atlas: (1)       User Guide for Intercity Bus Carriers, Ticketing Services, Schedulers, and Business Development Planners; (2) User Guide for State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Entities; (3)       Intercity Bus Atlas Maintenance and Improvements Guide; and (4) Implementation Plan for Implementing the Intercity Bus Atlas.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2023 15:58:44 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Update Precipitation Frequency Estimates for Louisiana (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 14)

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      <description><![CDATA[The purpose of this project is to update precipitation frequency estimates for Louisiana that are published in NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9.  Like previous NOAA Atlas 14 volumes, the estimates and associated bounds of 90% confidence intervals will be provided at 30 arc-sec resolution for durations of 5-minute through 60-day at average recurrence intervals (ARIs) of 1-year through 1,000-year. The study results will be published as NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 14, a wholly web based publication available at Precipitation Frequency Data Server (PFDS).  The publication will include the artifacts provided in previous NOAA Atlas 14 Volumes, including access through the PFDS, base grids in standard formats together with error estimates, electronic copies of maps, charts of seasonal distributions and probabilistic temporal distributions of heavy precipitation, and detailed documentation. Updated areal reduction factors, which are needed to calculate analogous areal precipitation frequency estimates, will not be developed as a part of this project.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2021 17:30:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Implementing the National Intercity Bus Atlas</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The objective of this project is to complete the development and implementation of the Intercity Bus Atlas (ICBA) as an ongoing, comprehensive and publicly available inventory of intercity bus services. While the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has developed the structure and platform to house and maintain the ICBA, research is needed to populate the ICBA with General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data. The research team will need to work closely with the BTS and the Federal Geographic Data Committee Intercity Bus Working Group to accomplish this project. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2019 09:57:47 GMT</pubDate>
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