Costs and Benefits of Advanced Public Transportation Systems at DART First State
This project examined the costs and benefits of new technologies implemented at DART First State. Nationally the technologies come under the title of Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS). APTS technologies that were considered here include: (1) Automatic Vehicle Location, (2) Operations Software; (3) Mobile Data Terminals, (4) Silent alarms/covert microphones/surveillance cameras, (5) Automated passenger information systems, (6) Automatic passenger counters, and (7) Vehicle Diagnostics. There is a very high degree of integration between all these pieces, brought together by a range of management software. In an examination of information available about APTS implementation around the country numerous benefits of APTS were referenced. National guidelines available for the evaluation of APTS and efforts were made in this project to conduct the cost/benefit analysis to these guidelines. Included in national evaluation guidelines is the establishment of an evaluation framework that provides the context for the evaluation for a specific transit agency. The primary higher level goals of DART First State's APTS technology implementation were identified.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Completed
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Sponsor Organizations:
Delaware Department of Transportation
P.O. Box 778
Dover, DE United States 19901 -
Performing Organizations:
Delaware Center for Transportation
University of Delaware
Newark, DE United States 19716 -
Principal Investigators:
Racca, Dave
- Start Date: 20030701
- Expected Completion Date: 0
- Actual Completion Date: 0
- Source Data: RiP Project 17752
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automatic vehicle location; Benefit cost analysis; Cameras; Information systems; Information technology; Public transit; Research projects; Transit operating agencies
- Geographic Terms: Delaware
- Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01459891
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Delaware Department of Transportation
- Files: RIP, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Jan 3 2013 1:14PM