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Transit Management

Graduate · Historical course

Fall 2006

Topics

  • Introduction: Transit Industry Status
  • Organizational Models
  • Term Paper Presentations and Discussions
  • Workforce Planning
  • Term Paper Presentations

Readings

  • Transit Cooperative Research Program Syntheses, Reports, and Research Digests, 1994-present. (Key: R = Report, S = Synthesis, RRD = Research Report Digest, LRD = Legal Research Digest.) All TCRP publications listed in the table below are available at their Web site after registering for free. Search by Project number. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Transportation Research Record (past 10 years) deals with transit management.
    Listed reading
  • UITP Revue is a quarterly, international journal on transit topics.
    Listed reading
  • Mass Transit is a monthly magazine with good topical coverage.
    Listed reading
  • Passenger Transport is a weekly American Public Transit Association publication.
    Listed reading
  • Fielding, G. J. (Pete). Managing Public Transit Strategically . San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1987. ISBN: 1555420680.
    Listed reading
  • Rye, T., and N. Wilson. “The Urban Bus Situation in the UK: Recent Developments and a Case Study of Edinburgh.” TRAIL Research School, Delft, March 2002.
    Required
  • Wilson, N. H. M. “Public Transport in the U.S.A.: A Critical Appraisal and Prospects For Future Industry Restructuring.” TRAIL Research School, Delft, March 2002.
    Required
  • Gwilliam, K. “Ownership, Organization and Competition Policy: An International Review.” Presented at The Fifth International Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport, Leeds, UK, May, 1997.
    Required
  • Halvorsen, R., and N. H. M. Wilson. “The Role of Contract Structuring in Contracted Public Transport Performance: Theory and Practice.” Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport, Rotorua, New Zealand, July 1995.
    Required
  • Blakey, Tara. “Designing Transit Concession Contracts to Deal with Uncertainty.” Master of Science in Transportation Thesis . Cambridge, MA: MIT Thesis, 2006.
    Required
  • Lee, Douglass. “Transit Cost and Performance Measurement.” Transport Reviews 9, no. 2 (1989): 147-170.
    Required
  • Fielding, G. J. Chapter 3.
    Required
  • “The Role of Performance-Based Measures in Allocating Funding for Transit Operations.” (Project SG-04), S-06, Summary and Chapters 1-4.
    Required
  • “Customer-Focused Transit.” (Project J-7, SB7), S-45, Summary and Chapters 1-3.
    Required
  • Yi, Hong. “Transition to Smart Card Technology: How Transit Operators Can Encourage the Take-Up of Smart Card Technology.” Master of Science in Transportation Thesis . Cambridge, MA: MIT Thesis, 2006.
    Required
  • “A Handbook of Proven Marketing Strategies for Public Transit.” (Project B-13), R-50, Introductory Chapter.
    Required
  • “A Challenged Employment System: Hiring, Training, Performance Evaluation, and Retention of Bus Operators.” (Project J-7), S-40, Summary and Chapters 1, 4, 5, and 6.
    Required
  • “Practices in Assuring Employee Availability.” (Project SF-06), S-33, Summary and Chapters 1 - 2.
    Required
  • Harsh, W., Jr. “Innovative Labor-Management Practices.” TCRP Report , 1995.
    Required
  • Koutsopoulos, H. N., and N. H. M. Wilson. “Operator Workforce Planning in the Transit Industry.” Transportation Research 21A (1987): 127-138.
    Required
  • Shiftan, Y., and N. H. M. Wilson. “Absence, Overtime, and Reliability Relationships in Transit Workforce Planning.” Transportation Research Record 1402 (1993): 98-106.
    Required
  • “Light Rail Service: Vehicular and Pedestrian Safety.” (Project A-13), RRD-34, Chapters 1-3.
    Required
  • “Monitoring Bus Maintenance Performance.” (Project SF-04), S-22, Chapters 1-5.
    Required
  • “Information Technology Update for Transit.” (Project SG-08), S-35, Summary and Chapters 1-2.
    Required
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