System-specific spare bus ratios update
By: consultants, Martin Minkoff and Lindsay Martin (ICF International, Seattle, Washington)
Contributors: Martin, Lindsay, author; National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board; Transit Cooperative Research Program; United States. Federal Transit Administration; Transit Development Corporation
Series: TCRP synthesis -- 109; TCRP synthesis -- 109.
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780309271196
Subjects: Bus lines; Management; Buses; Reliability; Maintenance and repair
Description: "This reports documents successful practices in the United States and Canada, and presents information on efforts employed to achieve optimal bus fleet size and effective spare bus ratios. The objective is to update the findings of TCRP Synthesis 11: System-Specific Spare Bus Ratios, as significant changes have occurred in the transit industry since 1995."--Preface.
Notes: "A synthesis of transit practice."

At head of title: Transit Cooperative Research Program.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 43-44).

Research sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration in cooperation with the Transit Development Corporation TCRP project J-7, topic SA-32
Table of contents: title: Summary; title: Introduction; title: Literature review; title: Survey methodology and results : system specific spare bus ratios; title: Case examples; title: Conclusions.