Elements Needed to Create High Ridership Transit Systems

Elements Needed to Create High Ridership Transit Systems
Author: TranSystems Corporation
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2007
Genre: CD-ROMs
ISBN: 0309098858

"TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 111: Elements Needed to Create High-Ridership Transit Systems explores the strategies used by transit agencies to create high ridership. The report includes case studies that focus on the internal and external elements that contributed to successful ridership increases and examines how the transit agencies influenced or overcame internal and external challenges to increase ridership. The report includes a companion interactive CD-ROM that contains a database of individual transit agency ridership strategies linked to the strategies and examples presented in the report. The CD-ROM also contains a brochure that outlines the key elements identified in this report for increasing and sustaining ridership." -- publisher's website.

Enhancing the Visibility and Image of Transit in the United States and Canada

Enhancing the Visibility and Image of Transit in the United States and Canada
Author: Wirthlin Worldwide
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2000
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780309066600

The report documents and presents how the image of transit can be strengthened by building on existing positive perceptions. The research provides a communications strategy to guide national, regional, and local efforts to enhance the image and visibility of transit in order to create a more positive and supportive environment.

Transit Advertising Sales Agreements

Transit Advertising Sales Agreements
Author: Bruce Schaller
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2004
Genre: Advertising
ISBN: 0309070023

This synthesis will be of interest to transit agency staff responsible for advertising sales in their agencies. They can use this report to learn from the experiences of other transit agencies and to compare their experiences with those of others. The report documents and summarizes transit agency experiences with advertising sales and synthesizes current practices for advertising sales, contracting, and display.

Understanding how to Motivate Communities to Support and Ride Public Transportation

Understanding how to Motivate Communities to Support and Ride Public Transportation
Author: Mindy Rhindress
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2008
Genre: Local transit
ISBN: 030909917X

TCRP Report 122: Understanding How to Motivate Communities to Support and Ride Public Transportation provides a comprehensive discussion on the methods and strategies used by public transportation agencies in the United States and Canada to enhance their public images and motivate the support and use of public transportation. Additionally, the report identifies and describes methods and strategies used by other industries (comparable to public transportation) to enhance their public image and to motivate the support and use of their products and services. Also, this report examines the perceptions, misperceptions, and use of public transit, and the extent to which these affect support. Finally, the report identifies effective communication strategies, campaigns, and platforms for motivating individuals to action in support of public transportation, and it recommends ways to execute those communication strategies, campaigns, and platforms. This report will be helpful to transit agencies; elected officials; community leaders; business leaders; and federal, state, and local funding agencies in both the United States and Canada.

Cooperative Research for Hazardous Materials Transportation

Cooperative Research for Hazardous Materials Transportation
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee for a Study of the Feasibility of a Hazardous Materials Transportation Cooperative Research Program
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2005
Genre: Hazardous substances
ISBN: 0309094976

Effective Use of Transit Websites

Effective Use of Transit Websites
Author: Bruce Schaller
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2002
Genre: Local transit
ISBN: 0309069181

Explores current practices and recent experiences concerning website design, marketing, and administration. This document integrates information from several sources. It is based on data collected from a review of the relevant literature and survey responses from 47 transit agencies, a cross section of the U.S. transit industry. Also, information was collected for this report from surveys and interviews with website managers, analyses of server logs showing website usage, as well as market research results from several agencies.

Publications Catalog

Publications Catalog
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board
Publisher:
Total Pages: 22
Release: 2000
Genre: Highway research
ISBN: