Improving Public Transportation Technology Implementations and Anticipating Emerging Technologies (2007) / Chapter Skim
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However, for a variety of reasons, many transit agencies have been slow to adopt new technologies. These reasons include lack of information about new technologies and how they might be adapted to transit needs; lack of funding; fear of public failure in the adoption of new technology and the attendant criticism; lack of knowledge about and expertise in the benefits of technology investments and how to sell these benefits, particularly where benefits are not clearly quantifiable; and impediments posed by agencies' organizational structures, which tend to be hierarchical and command-andcontrol in nature.
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Midway through this study, TCRP reduced the scope of the emerging technologies portion in order to provide the resources necessary for a thorough treatment of best practices, including greater investigation of techniques such as Enterprise Architecture Planning and Change Management. That reduction in scope eliminated consideration of the more distant emerging technologies -- those expected to be available to transit between 11 and 20 years from today (the analysis included in this report considers technologies up to 10 years out)
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Public Transportation Agencies Ann Arbor Transportation Authority Greg Cook, Executive Director Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority Kirk Dand, General Manager (contracted) Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA)
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The second activity was a facilitated group discussion of best practices -- what works and what doesn't -- in areas ranging from institutional to technical. The third activity was a facilitated group discussion of how the results of this study can benefit transit agencies, including consideration of the concept of "prerequisites" -- basic conditions and capabilities needed in order to successfully apply more specific, technical best practices -- and how to disseminate the results of this study.
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