Best practices in bus dispatch [summary].

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• Creators:
  DeAnnuntis, Christopher
• Corporate Creators:
  University of South Florida
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Bus transportation
  • Bus travel
  • Bus transit
  • Bus lines
  • Bus routes
  • Bus drivers
  • Dispatching
  • Bus transit operations
  • Incident management
  • Labor
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• Publication/ Report Number:
  BDK85 977-25
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Florida
• Edition:
  Summary.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Florida Department of Transportation
• Abstract:
  In 2007, the National Center for Transit Research ; sponsored a study of best practices in extraboard ; operator management, finding that in most transit ; agencies, extraboard manpower is managed by ; dispatchers as one of their many functions. This ; pointed to a need for a better understanding of ; dispatchers’ roles and ranges of functions and to ; share optimal practices among transit agencies. ; Dispatch functions fall into three broad ; categories: incident, labor, and equipment ; management. Similarities of dispatch functions ; across transit agencies are well known, but ; differences in operating policies, procedures, ; and functions of dispatch have not been wellresearched ; or documented. A literature review ; revealed no previous studies of this subject. This ; study by researchers from the University of South ; Florida begins to address the gaps in knowledge ; about dispatch practices. The researchers ; investigated best practices, standard operating ; procedures, and uses of technology in transit ; agencies of all sizes. In addition to their literature ; review, they employed a survey and case studies ; of two public transit agencies.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/24654/dot_24654_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 404.46 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:efd75568923e4bd486b6c4fcbb728d53422668e741372ec32a4aa2001052740e