GIS for Mass Transit/Public Transport
GIS helps transit operators make safe, reliable decisions based on real information.
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This example using ArcInfo 8, shows how GIS can be used to determine actual walking distances—not as-the-crow-flies estimates. This technique can improve the accuracy of estimating ridership and revenue levels based on neighborhood accessibility to new or existing routes, patterns, and stops.
GIS can be used to manage and analyze critical information such as
- Route planning and analysis
- Bus dispatch and emergency response
- Automatic vehicle location and tracking
- Paratransit scheduling and routing
- Bus stop and facility inventory
- Rail system facility management
- Track, power, communications, and signal maintenance
- Accident reporting and analysis
- Demographic analysis and route restructuring
- Ridership analysis and reporting
- Transportation planning and modeling
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Modelling Park-and-Ride; Understanding multi-modal travel
Park-and-ride schemes can be an effective means of reducing private automobile traffic within the congested centre of an urban area. Therefore, in order to accurately assess the effects of different transport policies, travel demand models must include elements of park-and-ride choice. RAND Europe’s modelling team has significant expertise in the development of park-and-ride models, as a means to assess both the feasibility of proposed park-and-ride developments and the growth in demand at existing sites.
GIS and Paratransit—Map-Based Solutions Respond with Efficiency to Paratransit Operations Demands
MassTransit, September/October 2006 [PDF]
Best Practices for Using Geographic Data in Transit: A Location Referencing Guidebook
This Guidebook was developed at the request of the transit industry. It provides best practices for both transit managers and technical staff with respect to planning, implementing and using geographic data in transit. The Guidebook discusses issues and best practices for defining and using geographic locations of bus stops, routes, and other map data that are needed for successfully implementing Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and GIS, as well as for obtaining operational efficiencies.
Visit Portland's TriMet, an online, interactive, map-based customer information system.
See how King County, Washington has organized its data with data from other local jurisdictions and state agencies to create a seamless regional data set for better planning and coordination of transportation activities.
Read GIS Provides Customer Satisfaction for Hong Kong Bus Company to learn about the company's new Digital Map Passenger Enquiry System (DMPES) that is based on ESRI software.
—by Jim Baumann, Directions Magazine
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