TCRP Report 136:

Guidebook for Rural Demand-Response Transportation: Measuring, Assessing, and Improving Performance

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Publication Year:2009

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Elizabeth Ellis; Brian McCollom; Transportation Research Board
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TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 136: Guidebook for Rural Demand-Response Transportation: Measuring, Assessing, and Improving Performance explores the diversity of demand-response transportation (DRT) services and examines definitions of performance data and performance measures. The report also highlights the ...
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Front Matter	i-ix
1.1 Development of Guidebook and Relationship to TCRP Report 124	1-1	(skim)
1.2 Guidebook Organization	2-2	(skim)
2.1 Rural DRT - It's Different	3-3	(skim)
2.2 The Rural Transit Environment	4-6	(skim)
2.3 What Does All This Mean for Rural DRT Performance Assessment?	7-9	(skim)
3.2 Performance Data for Rural DRT - Now There Is NTD	10-10	(skim)
3.3 Key Performance Data for Rural DRT Performance Assessment	11-17	(skim)
3.4 Other Performance Data for Rural DRT Performance Assessment	18-21	(skim)
3.5 Rural DRT - Performance Data to Measure Transit Impact	22-22	(skim)
4.1 Key Performance Measures for Assessing Rural DRT	23-28	(skim)
4.2 Additional Performance Measures	29-30	(skim)
4.3 Transit-Impact Performance Measures	31-32	(skim)
5.1 Factors Influencing Rural DRT Performance	33-35	(skim)
5.2 Different Methodologies for Assessing DRT Performance	36-37	(skim)
5.3 Categorization of Rural DRT Systems	38-45	(skim)
6.1 Rural Systems Participating as Representative Systems	46-48	(skim)
6.2 Comparing Your Performance Against Other Systems - Performance Data of Representative Rural DRT Systems	49-54	(skim)
6.3 Summary Rural DRT Performance Data	55-58	(skim)
7.1 Actions for Improving Rural DRT Performance	59-60	(skim)
7.2 Performance Improvement Actions - More Details and Selected Experience	61-85	(skim)
References	86-87	(skim)
Appendix A - Rural NTD Data, Demand-Response-Only Systems, 2007 Report Year	88-88	(skim)
Appendix B - Summary Performance Data and System Characteristics by Individual System for Representative Rural DRT Systems, FY07 Data	89-90	(skim)
Abbreviations used without definitions in TRB publications	91-91	(skim)

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TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 136: Guidebook for Rural Demand-Response Transportation: Measuring, Assessing, and Improving Performance explores the diversity of demand-response transportation (DRT) services and examines definitions of performance data and performance measures. The report also highlights the typology of rural DRT systems and includes examples of performance data from more than 20 representative rural systems.

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Guidebook for Rural Demand-Response Transportation: Measuring, Assessing, and Improving Performance

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