Classifying rural and small urban transit agencies
By: David Ripplinger
Contributors: Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute
Series: UGPTI departmental publication -- no. 212; UGPTI publication -- no. 212.
Publisher: Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, North Dakota State University
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Fargo, N.D.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Methodology; Evaluation; Local transit; Research
Description: In this paper, rural and small urban transit agencies are classified into peer groups using hierarchicial cluster analysis and data from the Rural National Transit Database (Rural NTD). The objective is to provide   a basis for the comparison of individual agency to peer group performance as well as econometric analysis between and within peer groups.
Notes: "August 2009."

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