A MANUAL FOR EVALUATING PERSONALIZED PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEMS

This manual contains information on approaches and techniques for planning and conducting an evaluation of a Personalized Public Transit System (PPTS). Various methodologies and performance indicators have been examined. Many of these strategies and techniques are recommended for use for certain phases of an evaluation. This document was designed to evaluate the project, Dallas Area Rapid Transit: Personalized Public Transit Operational Test, under a sub-contract with the University of Texas at Arlington. Included in the manual are guidelines and criteria for selecting test free routes and candidate transit routes for the employment of the before-and-after methodology. Described in the document are key baseline data requirements, monitoring and follow-up methodologies, site data requirements, and measures for evaluating PPTS objectives and operational tests. The guidelines, developed from numerous existing documents, are both broad and PPTS project specific.