Guidebook for rural demand-response transportation
Subtitle: measuring, assessing, and improving performance
By: Elizabeth Ellis, in association with Brian McCollom
Contributors: McCollom, Brian E.; National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board; Transit Cooperative Research Program; United States. Federal Transit Administration; Transit Development Corporation
Series: TCRP report -- 136; Report (Transit Cooperative Research Program) -- 136.
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 89
ISBN-13: 9780309118071
Subjects: Demand responsive transportation; Rural transportation; Planning; Rural transit; Local transit
Other titles: Rural demand-response transportation
Description: TCRP Report 136: Guidebook for Rural Demand-Response Transportation: Measuring, Assessing, and Improving Performance will be of interest to rural public transportation systems that provide demand-response transit (DRT) services and to the communities they  serve. The Guidebook is a resource to assist DRT systems to measure, assess, and improve their performance, focusing on DRT systems in rural areas.
Notes: At head of title: Transit Cooperative Research Program.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 86-87).

Also available online.

Research sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration in cooperation with the Transit Development Corporation TCRP project B-31A
Table of contents: title: Ch. 2. Rural DRT and Why Performance Matters; title: Ch. 3. Performance Data for Rural DRT; title: Ch. 4. Performance Measures for Rural DRT; title: Ch. 5. Assessing Performance - A Typology of Rural DRT; title: Ch. 6. Performance Data from Preresentative Systems; title: Ch. 7. Improving Performance.