Category: Research

TCRP seeks input on web-based feedback tools

A new study from the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) is looking at how transit agencies can use web-based tools including online polls and surveys, social media, mobile applications, and crowdsourcing to gather feedback from customers and other stakeholders. The project team is inviting transit operators to participate in a survey about their current and future uses …

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Mobile Mapping Technology to facilitate dialogue between Transportation Agencies and the Public

University of Oregan (UO) has carried out a project on the  topic “Development of Mobile Mapping Technology to Facilitate  Dialogue between Transportation Agencies and the Public”  sponsored by Oregan Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC).  The project aims  to develop enhancements in mobile application functionality as well as develop a model that facilitates a direct, two-way exchange of data …

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Bike Sharing in the United States – A Guide

  The Tool Design Group and Pedestrian Information Center have prepared a guide on the practice and implementation of bike sharing in the United States for the U.S Department of Transportation. Bike sharing is an innovative transportation program, ideal for short distance point-to-point trips providing users the ability to pick up a bicycle at any …

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Two New Webinars from Rutgers University’s National Transit Institute

Rutgers’s National Transit Institute will be hosting two, free webinars in August and September. The webinars will be based on findings from the TCRP Research Results Digest 103 and TCRP Synthesis SB-20, respectively. Webinar Title: Sustainable Public Transportation: Environmentally Friendly Mobility Report on the International Transit Studies Program Mission Webinar Date: Wednesday, August 29, 2012, 2:00 …

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Walking and Bicycling in the United States

  In the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB)  May-June 2012 edition of TR News, a report about walking and bicycling in the U.S. analyzes whether the design of modern cities and neighborhoods discourages such activities, and compares the situation in the U.S. and other countries. National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) estimates that fewer than 11%  of daily trips in the …

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