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Methods For Assessing The Efficiency Of Urban Public Transport, A.A. Nazarov
Methods For Assessing The Efficiency Of Urban Public Transport, A.A. Nazarov
The Scientific Journal of Vehicles and Roads
The article presents methods for assessing the effectiveness of urban public transport based on the analysis of the operational characteristics of their types. Methods for a comprehensive assessment of options for solving the urban public transport system are analyzed.
Cross-Checking Automated Passenger Counts For Ridership Analysis, Simon Berrebi, Sanskruti Joshi, Kari Watkins
Cross-Checking Automated Passenger Counts For Ridership Analysis, Simon Berrebi, Sanskruti Joshi, Kari Watkins
Journal of Public Transportation
Due to concerns about data quality, Automated Passenger Counting technology has rarely been used to analyze local ridership trends. This paper presents a novel framework to test the consistency and completeness of passenger count data in four cities. The data are aggregated at the system level and compared with the National Transit Database between 2012 and 2018. In all four agencies, passenger counts closely follow the fluctuations observed in the national transit database. There is, however, a slight drift in two of the four agencies. At the stop-level, missing and duplicate vehicle-trips are identified using schedule data from the General …