Recent advances in bus transit operations planning

The 11 papers in the report deal with the following areas: comparative evaluation of bus route costing procedures; estimating bus ridership; FRACAS: a strategic planning model for bus transit systems; limited-stop bus operations; an evaluation; operational evaluation of bus priority strategies; use of supercalc to compile and report statistics in public transportation; optimal design of bus routes and frequencies for Ahmedabad; reducing the energy requirements of suburban transit services by route and schedule redesign; Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, turnpike express bus study; systems approach to transit bus maintenance; and, management information systems for small, fixed-route, fixed-schedule operators.