German “Smart-Bus” Systems: Potential for Application in Portland, Oregon – Vol. 1: Technical Report

Details

• Creators:
  Behnke, Robert W.
• Corporate Creators:
  Aegis Transportation Information Systems, Inc.
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Transit Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Bus transportation
  • Cost effectiveness
  • Fixed routes
  • Intelligent vehicles
  • Paratransit services
  • Taxi services
  • Technology
  • Motor Carriers
  • Operations and Traffic Management
  • Public Transportation
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT-T-93-25
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Portland (Oregon) ; United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Transit Administration
• 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.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/479/dot_479_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.17 MB]
• Collection(s):
  FTA 50th Anniversary Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9f2fcbf36df2fa9ad404fc0b4e22fee6091d7a81a2be6c2834867b21d4a57e26