Products / Projects

Transit Information Center
Customer Service Center (The Center)
National Transit Database
Autonomous Transportation
Phone-Based Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) Tracker
Web-Based Travel Tracker
Transit Decision Support System (TDSS)™
Trip Planner/Day Planner

Transit Information Center

The Transit Information Center utilizes public data sources to perform a wide variety of special analyses tailored specifically to our customers needs. In addition to monthly ridership, service supplied data, employment, fuel prices, inflation indexes, and measures of traffic congestion for a limited set of urban areas; we can utilize your agency’s data and perform micro and macro level analyses tailored specifically to your needs.
Our hands-on knowledge of the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) transit data coupled with our transit experience has positioned our staff of transit and data specialist to offer the industry a superior level of analysis capabilities and data publication services, including:

• Peer group analysis of key performance measures, i.e., cost efficiency, cost effectiveness, service utilization, etc.
• Predictive performance indicators to determine the impacts of operating and capital costs on transit patronage
• Transit asset analysis and trends in the use of alternative fuels
• The impacts of employment, fuel prices and traffic congestion on transit ridership
• Comprehensive reports, utilizing high-end graphics, charts, graphs and easy to comprehend content for presentation at the department level, board meetings and public forums.

Ridership

• What are the trends in monthly national ridership?
• What are the trends in monthly ridership by mode?
• What is the correlation of employment and fuel prices with monthly ridership? (Selected urban areas.)
• Effects of traffic congestion on average commuting time per unlinked passenger trip (Bus)

Capital

• Capital Funding
  What is the impact of federal, state and local assistance on capital investment funding?
• Capital Expenses
  How does capital invested in service expansion affect the efficiency and effectiveness of transit?
• National Fleet - Alternative Fuels
  Trends in Share of Alternative Fuel Vehicle Capital Purchases

Operating Funding and Performance Measures

• Operating Funding Sources
  What is the impact of fares, federal, state and local assistance on operating funding?
• Operating Expenses
  What is the breakdown of operating expenditures by expense category in recent years?
• Operating Funding, Service Hours and Ridership
  How do variations in operating funds expended affect service hours and ridership?
• Performance Measures
  Efficiency and Effectiveness of Small Urban Transit Systems in Low Population Density Service Areas

Clean Fuels

• Composition of the National Bus Fleet Dedicated to Transit by Manufacturer
  Are federal dollars being used to purchase alternative fuel vehicles?
• Service Supplied and Service Consumed
  Percent Share of Clean and Conventional Diesel / Gas Vehicle Mileage 2002 - 2007
  Clean Fuel Trends in National Transit Ridership 2002 - 2007
  Service Mileage Share by Mode 2002 vs. 2007