Evaluation of Software Platform Systems for Transit Service Route Planning for Statewide Applications

The goal of this project is to identify software platform systems for potential statewide applications for transit service route planning platform analysis. The specific project objectives include: (1) Identify existing software platform systems for transit service route planning analysis by conducting a state-of-the-practice survey of Florida’s transit agencies and by scanning the literature and the Internet. (2) Meet with transit service planners from transit agencies to learn about their software application experiences and needs. (3) Evaluate the general performances of select software platform systems using data from the software vendors. (4) Evaluate the output reasonableness of select software platform systems using local data gathered from local sources by the research team. (5) Identify appropriate software platform systems for potential statewide applications. (6) Create a checklist template for use by transit agencies when identifying and evaluating software platform systems. (7) Understand and refine preparation and process of local data sources and for evaluating platform systems and performing service change analysis.

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $150000
• Contract Numbers:

  BDV29 977-60

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Florida Department of Transportation

  605 Suwannee Street
  Tallahassee, FL  United States  32399-0450
• Managing Organizations:

  Florida Department of Transportation

  Research Center
  605 Suwannee Street MS-30
  Tallahassee, FL  United States  32399-0450
• Project Managers:

  Matthews, Gabrielle

• Performing Organizations:

  Florida International University

  Division of Research
  11200 SW 8th St, MARC 430
  Miami, FL  United States  33199
• Principal Investigators:

  Gan, Albert

• Start Date: 20200604
• Expected Completion Date: 20220131
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Evaluation and assessment; Public transit; Routes and routing; Software; State of the practice; Surveys
• Geographic Terms: Florida
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01742519
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Florida Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: BDV29 977-60
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jun 16 2020 3:14PM