Transit Management and Replacement Capital Planning: Fid-Bau Portal

Transit Management and Replacement Capital Planning

The 15 papers in the report deal with the following areas: planning priorities for replacement of transit assets; establishing a transit capital replacement account--the San Diego experience; use of life-cycle cost analysis in transit capital overhaul/replace decisions--an application to the PATH railcar fleet; methodology for projecting rail transit rehabilitation and replacement capital financing needs; long-range transit fleet planning: defining and costing a replacement-only scenario for Seattle; strategic planning as a basis for capital investment programming: case study of the regional transportation authority in Chicago; trolley bus and motor coach operational cost comparisons utilizing section 15 data; strategic model for operator work-force planning in the transit industry; monitoring performance of new bus routes; optimization strategies for transit systems in urban corridors; data processing software for an automatic data acquisition system in mass transit; determinants of superior performance in public transit: research opportunities using section 15 data; life-cycle cost analysis of electronic registering fareboxes: a case study; cluster sampling techniques for estimating transit patronage; recent changes in BART patronage: some findings on fare elasticities.