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71 appendiX d aGencies and aUToMaTic passenGer coUnTer ManUFacTUrers Table D1 lists transit agencies with automatic passenger counter (APC) systems, the size of the agency as measured by the number of peak vehicles in service, and the percentage of vehicles equipped with APCs, hardware supplier, software supplier, and procurement process. All information except for agency size is taken directly from survey responses. National Transit Database 2006 data were used to determine system size: Small agencies have fewer than 250 peak vehicles, medium agencies have between 250 and 1,000, and large agencies have more than 1,000. TABLE D1 AGENCIES AND APC MANUFACTURERS Agency/City Size % APC Vehicles Hardware Supplier Software Supplier Procurement AC Transit/Oakland, Calif. Medium 10 UTA IRIS through Orbital Hardware vendor UTA stand-alone Orbital part of larger ITS Ann Arbor TA/Ann Arbor, Mich. Small 52 Red Pine Outside vendor Part of larger ITS Blacksburg Transit/Blacksburg, Va. Small 100 ATC Outside vendor Part of larger ITS Calgary Transit/Calgary, Alberta Medium 12 Infodev Infodev Infodev CDTA/Albany, N.Y. Medium 25 INIT Mobile Statistics INIT In house Part of larger ITS Capital Metro/Austin, Tex. Medium 23 UTA In house UTA Stand-alone LYNX/Orlando, Fla. Medium 20 UTA In house UTA Stand-alone, capable of downstream integration CNY Centro/Syracuse, N.Y. Small 6 N/A Hardware vendor Part of larger ITS COTA/Columbus, Ohio Small 15 UTA UTA Stand-alone Champaign–Urbana MTD/ Champaign–Urbana, Ill. Small 100 INIT In house INIT Outside vendor Part of larger ITS Cherriots–Salem/Keizer Transit/ Salem, Ore. Small 45 Digital Recorders N/A Stand-alone DART/Dallas, Tex. Medium 3 UTA UTA Stand-alone Delaware Transit Corp/Wilm- ington, Del. Medium 5 (test status) Orbital In house N/A Duluth Transit Authority/ Duluth, Minn. Small 50 Siemens Transit Master Siemens Transit Master Part of larger ITS Foothill Transit/West Covina, Calif. Medium 100 N/A Crystal Reports Business Objects oftware In house Part of larger ITS Fresno Area Express/Fresno, Calif. Small 25 Red Pine through Siemens Siemens In house Part of larger ITS GCRTA/Cleveland, Ohio Medium 25 Red Pine through Conti- nental/ Siemens Crystal Reports Software Part of larger ITS Greater Dayton RTA/ Dayton, Ohio Medium 15 Siemens Red Pine Siemens Part of larger ITS

72 TABLE D1 (Continued) AGENCIES AND APC MANUFACTURERS Agency/City Size % APC Vehicles Hardware Supplier Software Supplier Procurement King County Metro/Seattle, Wash. Large 15 IVT In house Stand-alone Lane Transit District/Eugene, Ore. Small 100 IRIS In house Part of larger ITS MARTA/Atlanta, Ga. Medium 100 Pine Box IRIS In house New fully integrated replacing legacy stand-alone MBTA/Boston, Mass. Large 10 of pilot garage UTA SPSS (UTA) In house Stand-alone Metro Transit/Minneapolis, Minn. Medium 14 Red Pine through Conti- nental/ Siemens In house Part of larger ITS Metro Transit/City of Madison, Wis. Small 18 N/A In house Part of larger ITS MetroLINK/Peoria, Ill. Small 100 INIT INIT Part of larger ITS MTA of Houston and Harris County, Texas Large 100 INIT INIT Outside vendor In house Bus: part of larger ITS Light rail: stand- alone Milwaukee County Transit Sys- tem/Milwaukee, Wis. Medium 8 Infodev Infodev In house Stand-alone MTA NYCT/New York, N.Y. Large Pilot IRIS through Siemens Transit Master N/A Part of larger ITS NFTA/Buffalo, N.Y. Medium 40 UTA INIT (not yet in service) UTA In house Stand-alone, but GPS from DRI talking bus system OC Transpo/Ottawa, Ontario Medium 10 Infodev Outside vendor Stand-alone OCTA/Orange, Calif. Medium < 100 IRIS through Orbital In house Stand-alone Pace/Arlington, Ill. Large 40 Red Pine In house Part of larger ITS RTC Washoe County/ Reno, Nev. Small 100 Siemens Outside vendor In house Part of larger ITS RTC of Southern Nevada/Las Vegas, Nev. Medium 50 N/A In house Part of larger ITS RTD/Denver, Colo. Large 20+ INIT Ridecheck Plus Software purchased with hardware RIPTA/Providence, R.I. Medium 10 UTA UTA Stand-alone SamTrans/San Mateo, Calif. Medium 40–50 Iris through Orbital Orbital Part of larger ITS San Francisco MTA/San Fran- cisco, Calif. Medium 10 UTA UTA Stand-alone SANDAG/San Diego, Calif. Medium 25 IRIS Ridecheck Plus Part of larger ITS Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus/ Santa Monica, Calif. Small 100 N/A In house Part of larger ITS

73 TABLE D1 (Continued) AGENCIES AND APC MANUFACTURERS Agency/City Size % APC Vehicles Hardware Supplier Software Supplier Procurement SORTA/Cincinnati, Ohio Medium 3 UTA UTA Stand-alone TheBus/City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii Medium 24 UTA Infodev IRIS Clever Devices UTA Outside vendor Part of larger ITS TriMet/Portland, Ore. Medium 75 Bus: Red Pine Light rail: IRIS In house Originally stand- alone; integrated with AVL Winnipeg Transit System/Win- nipeg, Manitoba Medium 15 Infodev In house Stand-alone WMATA/Washington, D.C. Large 100 Cubic In house Part of larger ITS NOTE: N/A= Not Available; ITS = intelligent transportation systems; GPS = global positioning system; AVL = automatic vehicle location; SPSS = Statistical Package for the Social Sciences; UTA = Urban Transportation Associates; IRIS = iris-GmbH. See the website http:// www.apc-irma.biz/; INIT refers to itself as init Innovations in Traffic Systems. see the website http://www.initusa.com/; DRI is DRI Corporation, see the website http://www.digrec.com/; IVT is Integrated Vehicle Technologies

Abbreviations used without definition in TRB Publications: AAAE American Association of Airport Executives AASHO American Association of State Highway Officials AASHTO American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials ACI–NA Airports Council International–North America ACRP Airport Cooperative Research Program ADA Americans with Disabilities Act APTA American Public Transportation Association ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials ATA Air Transport Association ATA American Trucking Associations CTAA Community Transportation Association of America CTBSSP Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program DHS Department of Homeland Security DOE Department of Energy EPA Environmental Protection Agency FAA Federal Aviation Administration FHWA Federal Highway Administration FMCSA Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration FRA Federal Railroad Administration FTA Federal Transit Administration IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ISTEA Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 ITE Institute of Transportation Engineers NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASAO National Association of State Aviation Officials NCFRP National Cooperative Freight Research Program NCHRP National Cooperative Highway Research Program NHTSA National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NTSB National Transportation Safety Board SAE Society of Automotive Engineers SAFETEA-LU Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (2005) TCRP Transit Cooperative Research Program TEA-21 Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (1998) TRB Transportation Research Board TSA Transportation Security Administration U.S.DOT United States Department of Transportation