Advanced Public

Transportation

Systems

Publications Catalog

March, 1996

FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION

OFFICE OF RESEARCH, DEMONSTRATION

AND INNOVATION

ADVANCED PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYST EM S

DIVISION
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Advanced Public Transportation Systems Division, TRI-1 1

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Advanced Public

Transportation Systems

Documents

Advanced Public Transportation Systems:

Bibliography with Abstracts, 1985-1991

This report lists bibliographical information

About Advanced Public Transportation

Systems Research Projects that are partially or

wholly funded by the Federal Transit

Administration and not funded by the

Administration. Publication availability and

Abstracts are included.

Report #DOT-T-92- 18, April 1992.

Advanced Public Transportation Svstems

Benefits

This document lists the benefits that transit

authorities in the United States and Canada

have accrued in deploying various Advanced

Public Transportation Systems technologies.

November 1995.

Advanced Public Transportation Systems:

Evaluation Guidelines

This report by Robert Casey and John Collura

Volpe National Transportation Systems

Center, describes how evaluation guideiines

for the Federal Transit Administration’s

Advanced Public Transportation Systems

Operational Tests are implemented and

reported. Report #DOT-T-94- 10,

January 1994.

Advanced Public Transportation Systems:

Project Summaries

This document summarizes the current status

of Advanced Public Transportation Systems

Research Projects that are partially or wholly

funded by the Federal Transit Administration.

December 1995.

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Advanced Public Transportation Svstems:

The State of the Art. Update ‘96

This report by Robert Casey, Lawrence Labell,

Ross Hohnstrom, and Joe LoVecchio, Volpe

National Transportation Systems Center, and

Carol Schweiger and Terrance Sheehan

EG&G Dynatrend, summarizes the

state-of-the-art in the following areas of

Advanced Public Transportation Systems:

Traveler Information, Transit Management, and

Electronic Fare Payment Systems; and

Transportation Demand Management

Techniques.

Report #DOT-VNTSC-FTA-95 13,

January 1996.

Advanced Public Transportation Systems

Briefs:

Brief #l: What are Advanced Public

Transportation Systems?

A general overview of the Federal Transit

Administration’s Advanced Public

Transportation Systems Program.

Spring 1993.

Brief #2: Advanced Public Transportation

Svstems Evaluation Guidelines

A general overview of the evaluation guideline

used to assess the Federal Transit

Administration’s Advanced Public

Transportation Systems Operational Tests.

Summer 1993.

Brief #3: Minnesota Guidestar Travlink

This operational test in Minneapolis/St. Paul

uses Automatic Vehicle Location, Global

Positioning Satellite, and Advanced Traveler

Information Systems in the newly constructed

I-394 corridor to influence trip-making

decisions and travel behavior. January 1994.

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Brief #4: California Advanced Public

Transportation Systems

A general overview of the following

Advanced Public Transportation Systems

Operational Tests in California: Los Angeles

Smart Traveler, Los Angeles Smart Card,

Yosemite Area Regional Transportation

Information System, Santa Clara County

Smart Paratransit, and Sacramento Rideshare

Operational Tests. February 1994.

Brief #5: Bellevue Smart Traveler

This operational test in Washington uses

advanced computer and communications

technologies to reduce the number of single

occupancy vehicles by providing automated

ridematching services to Downtown Bellevue

commuters through computers, telephones;

and electronic pagers and wrist watches.

March 1994.

Brief #6: Houston Smart Commuter

This operational test in Texas uses advanced

computer and communications technologies to

reduce the number of single occupancy

vehicles by disseminating real-time traffic and

transit information to commuters on the I-45

North corridor through telephones, cable

television, and personal computer devices and

by providing automated ridematching services

to commuters on the I-10 West corridor

through a telephone system. June 1994.

Brief #7: Denver Smart Vehicle System

This operational test in Colorado uses

Automatic Vehicle Location and Global

Positioning Satellite Systems to manage bus

fleets more efficiently and to increase schedule

adherence. August 1994.

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Brief #8: Winston-Salem Mobility Manager

This operational test in North Carolina provide

transportation services to the transit users

through a mobility management system that

automates the dispatching, reporting, and

billing of transit services. September ‘1994.

Brief #9: Los Angeles Smart Traveler

Kiosks

This operational test in California uses

automated, multimedia kiosks in office

complexes, shopping malls, and transportation

centers to disseminate real-time traffic and

transit information, transit schedules, and

ridematching services. December 1994. .

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Brief #l0: Smart Fare Payment Systems for

Public Transit

A general overview of electronic fare payment

systems in transit. Early automation efforts,

read-only passes and fare cards, automated fare

card sales, smart fare cards, contact cards,

radio frequency coupled proximity cards, and a

perspective of the future are discussed.

January 1996.

Brief #ll: An Intelligent Transportation

System for Atlanta for the 1996 Olympics

This operational test in Atlanta is the United

States Department of Transportation’s first fully

implemented Intelligent Transportation

Infrastructure. The three major integral

components are Intelligent Transportation

Systems Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit

Authority 1996, Georgia Department of

Transportation Advanced Transportation

Management System, and the Atlanta Traveler

Information Showcase. February 1996.

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Advanced Traveler Aid Systems for Public

Transportation

This report by Shinya Kikuchi describes the

concept, structure, technology, and

implementation of the Intelligent Transit

Mobility System which is an innovative system

to improve public transportation information

dissemination. Report #DOT-T-95-07,

September 1994.

Bellevue Smart Traveler and Cellular

Telecommunications

This report by Denise Pieratti, Mark

Haselkom, and Cathy Blumenthal, Bellevue

Transportation Management Association,

discusses the findings of the Bellevue Smart

Traveler Operational Test in Washington.

This operational test uses advanced computer

and communications technologies to reduce

the number of single occupancy vehicles by

providing automated ridematching services

through computers, telephones; and electronic

pagers and wrist watches to Downtown

Bellevue commuters. Report #DOT-T-93-36,

May 1993.

California Smart Traveler System

This report by Robert W. Behnke, Aegis

Transportation Information Systems,

describes how audiotex and videotex terminals

can be used to develop parataxis and carpools

and how they can be integrated with

conventional transit, paratransit, and

ridesharing to reduce traffic congestion,

gasoline consumption, air pollution and

mobility problems at a low cost to the

taxpayer. Report #DOT-T-92- 16,

February 1992.

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Cost Estimates for Selected California

Smart Traveler Operational Tests

This supplemental report to the California

Smart Traveler System by Robert W. Behnke,

Aegis Transportation Information Systems,

estimates the cost of conducting the California

Smart Traveler Operational Tests in San

Ramon/Pleasanton, University of California at

Los Angeles, and Northern San Diego. A cost

comparison of implementing Smart Traveler

concepts versus the expansion of conventional

transit services is included.

Report #DOT-T-93-3 1, March 1993.

German “Smart-Bus” Systems: Potential

for Application in Portland, Oregon,

Volume 1, Technical Report

This report by Robert W. Behnke, Aegis

Transportation Information Systems, describes

how new telephone-based information services

can be used to enhance the cost-effectiveness

of Germany’s Flexible Operations Command

and Control System, a bus route deviation

system. Report #DOT-T-93-25, January 1993.

German “Smart-Bus” Systems: Potential

for Application in Portland, Oregon,

Volume 2, Appendices

This supplemental report to the German

“Smart-Bus” Systems: Potential for

Application in Portland, Oregon, Volume 1,

Technical Report by Robert W. Behnke, Aegis

Transportation Information Systems, estimates

the cost of conducting the German “Smart Bus

System Operational Test in Portland, Oregon.

Report #DOT-T-93-26, January 1993.

Intelligent Transportation Systems

This brochure provides general information

about Traveler Information, Transit

Management, and Electronic Fare Payment

Systems, the transit components of the

Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure.

December 1995.

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Intelligent Transportation’ Systems

Dictionary

This document defines commonly used

Intelligent Transportation Systems

terminology. Includes transit, traffic signal,

and communications terminology. April 1996.

Mobility Management and Market

Oriented Local Transportation

This report by Jeffrey A. Parker & Associates

and the International Taxicab and Livery

Association describes the feasibility and

cost-effectiveness of integrating local

transportation services offered by multiple

providers. Report #DOT-T-92-7,

March 1991.

Review and Assessment of En-Route

Transit Information Systems

This report by EG&G Dynatrend reviews the

current efforts to design, develop, and

implement en-route transit information

systems, and includes a discussion of the

state-of-the-art in en-route transit information

systems with respect to the User Service

Development Plan identified in the National

Program for ITS: Volume 2. Report

#DOT-T-96-03, July 1995.

Review of and Preliminary Guidelines for

Integrating Transit into Transportation

Management Centers

This report by Carol L. Schweiger, EG&G

Dynatrend, investigates the integration of

traffic and transit operations at several

Transportation Management Centers in the

United States. Report #DOT-T-94-25,

July 1994.

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Smart Cards for Transit: Multi-Use

Remotely Interrogated Stored-Data Cards

for Fare and Toll Payment

This report describes the requirements and

differences between electronic fare collection

and toll payment systems.

Report #FTA-MA-26-0020-95- 1, April 1996.

Smarter Transit Systems Can Lead to

Smarter Riders

This interview with Ronald J. Fisher, Federal

Transit Administration, describes how

Intelligent Transportation Systems can help

transit customers. PPTN Network News,

September 1993.

The Transit Opportunity in Intelligent

Vehicle Highway Systems

This paper by Ronald J. Fisher and Sean

Ricketson, Federal Transit Administration,

describes how Intelligent Transportation

Systems can improve transit operations.

February 10, 1994.

Transit Geographical Information Systems

This brochure describes the Federal Transit

Administration’s Transit Geographical

Information Systems Program, part of the

National Spatial Data Infrastructure.

August 1995.

White Paper-on the National ITS System

Architecture: Transit Issues and

Recommendations

This paper by David Caskey and Philip

Heermann, Sandia National Laboratories,

presents a number of issues relating to the

transit aspects of the National ITS System

Architecture. October 1995.

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Related Advanced Public

Transportation Systems

Documents

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Intelligent Transportation Systems Projects

This report is a comprehensive listing of

Intelligent Transportation Systems research

Accelerating Intelligent Transportation projects in the United States that are wholly or

ystems Deployment: A Report from the partially funded by the Federal Highway

United States Department of

Administration, Federal Transit Administration,

Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety

This paper by Christine Johnson, Director of Administration. January 1996.

the Joint Program Office, describes the federal NEW!

overnment and local transportation .

professionals roles in deploying and

Integrating Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Operation TimeSaver: Building the

November 1995.

Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure

This brochure provides a general overview of

Advanced Traveler Information Systems Operation Timesaver-Secretary Pena’s

for Rural Areas

National Intelligent Transportation Systems

This paper by JHK & Associates summarizes

Deployment Goal. January 1996.

the findings of a preliminary study that guides NEW!

federal programs with respect to Intelligent

Transportation Systems technologies in rural

and small urban areas and provides guidelines

Operation Timesaver: Taking

for Advanced Traveler Information Systems

Transportation into the 21st Century

implementation by state and local

This paper provides detailed information about

governments to meet rural traveler’s needs.

the goals, costs, and benefits of Operation

Timesaver. January 1996.

January 1995.

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An Integrated Intelligent Transportation

Infrastructure for Your Metropolitan Area Operation TimeSaver: Intelligent

This brochure describes how the system

integration of traffic signal control, freeway

Transportation Infrastructure Benefits -

management, incident management, traveler

Expected and Experienced

information, transit management, electronic

This report documents the benefits of

payment, and electronic toll collection systems

constructing an Intelligent Transportation

can benefit the public. December 1995.

Infrastructure. January 1996.

Assessment of Intelligent Transportation

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Systems Benefits: Early Results

This report by Donald Roberts and Dwight

Operation Timesaver: Secretary Pena’s

Shank, Mitre, provides an early assessment of

Remarks at the 1996 Transportation

the ongoing uses and benefits of Intelligent

Research Board Annual Meeting 

Transportation Systems. August 1995.

A transcription of the Secretary’s remarks at th

1996 Transportation Research Board Annual

Meeting in Washington, D.C. January 1996.

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Review of and Preliminary Guidelines for

Integrating Transit into Transportation

Management Centers

Smart Cards for Transit: Multi-Use Remotely

Interrogated Stored-Data Cards for Fare and Toll

Payment

Advanced Public Transportation Systems Smarter Transit Systems Can Lead to Smarter

Riders Documents Tbe Transit Opportunity in Intelligent Vehicle

Highway Systems

Advanced Public Transportation Systems: A Transit Geographical Information Systems

Bibliography with Abstracts, 1985-1991 White Paper on the National ITS System

 Advanced Public Transportation Systems Benefits Architecture: Transit Issues and Recommendations

Advanced Public Transportation Systems:

Evaluation Guidelines

Advanced Public Transportation Systems: Project Related Advanced Public Transportation

Summaries Systems Documents

Advanced Public Transportation Systems: The

State of the Art, Update ‘96 Accelerating Intelligent Transportation Systems

Brief #l: What are Advanced Public Deployment: A Report from the United States

Transportation Systems? Department of Transportation

Brief #2: Advanced Public Transportation Systems Advanced Traveler Information Systems for Rural

Evaluation Guidelines

Brief #3: Minnesota Guidestar Travlink An Integrated Intelligent Transportation

Brief #4: California Advanced Public lnfrastructure for Your Metropolitan Area

Transportation Systems Assessment of Intelligent Transportation Systems

Brief #5: Bellevue Smart Traveler Benefits: Early Results

Brief #6: Houston Smart Commuter Intelligent Transportation Systems Projects

Brief #7: Denver Smart Vehicle System Operation TimeSaver: Building the Intelligent

Brief #8: Winston-Salem Mobility Manager Transportation Infrastructure

Brief #9: Los Angeles Smart Traveler Kiosks Operation TimeSaver: Taking Transportation into

Brief #1O: Smart Fare Payment Systems for Public the 21st Century

Transit Operation TimeSaver: Intelligent Transportation

Brief #ll: An Intelligent Transportation System Infrastructure Benefits - Expected and Experienced

for Atlanta for the 1996 Olympics Operation TimeSaver: Secretary Pena’s Remarks a

Advanced Traveler Aid Systems for Public the 1996 Transportation Research Board Annual

Transportation Meeting

Bellevue Smart Traveler and Cellular

Telecommunications Ship to:

California Smart Traveler System

Cost Estimates for Selected California Smart Name:

Traveler Operational Tests

German “Smart-Bus” Systems: Potential for

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Application in Portland, Oregon, Volume 2,

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Intelligent Transportation Systems Dictionary

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