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German “Smart-Bus” Systems: Potential for Application in Portland, Oregon – Vol. 1: Technical Report
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1993-01-01
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Abstract:The Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (Tri-Met) provides transit, paratransit and ridesliaring services within Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington Counties in the Portland metropolitan area. For the past two decades, Tri-Met has been investigating ways to use new technologies to improve the costeffectiveness of public transportation services in fast-growing suburban areas. Several publications have reported that cities and counties in Germany that have installed new computer-telecommunications "smart-bus" systems have been able to significantly increase public transportation ridership in low-density suburban and rural areas. This report describes the history of the Flexible Operations Command and Control System (FOCCS) and how it is being used in Germany to integrate flexible-route bus, minibus and microbus (i.e., taxi) services with fixed-route bus, rail and ferry services.
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