Develop Guidebook for Managing System Costs: Operational and Capital Cost Management at Rural and Small Urban Public Transit Systems

Rural and small urban transit systems across the United States face fiscal challenges caused by the growing gap between the cost of providing transit service and available federal, state, and local funding. In Texas, the fiscal challenges facing rural and small urban transit systems are compounded by not only an increasing population but also revenue and ridership impacts related to COVID-19. Rural and small urban transit systems also often face high levels of staff turnover and a lack of knowledge management procedures to sustain cost management practices over time. The research teams will equip Texas Department of Transportation's (TxDOT’s) transit systems to understand, predict, and manage operational/capital costs and provide a reliable go-to-resource for cost management best practices.

• Record URL:
  https://library.ctr.utexas.edu/Presto/project=0-7133

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $213563
• Contract Numbers:

  0-7133

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Texas Department of Transportation

  125 E. 11th Street
  Austin, TX  United States  78701-2483
• Managing Organizations:

  Texas Department of Transportation

  125 E. 11th Street
  Austin, TX  United States  78701-2483
• Project Managers:

  Kasberg, Katelyn

• Performing Organizations:

  Texas A&M Transportation Institute

  Texas A&M University System
  3135 TAMU
  College Station, TX  United States  77843-3135

  Texas A&M University-Kingsville

  700 University Blvd
  Kingsville, TX  United States  78363
• Principal Investigators:

  Walk, Michael

• Start Date: 20210901
• Expected Completion Date: 20240331
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Capital costs; COVID-19; Economic impacts; Operating costs; Ridership; Rural transit; Transit operating agencies
• Geographic Terms: Texas
• Subject Areas: Finance; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01782704
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Texas Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: 0-7133
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Sep 23 2021 11:06AM