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Customer-Focused Service Guarantees and Transparency Practices (2018)

Chapter: Appendix D - The MBTA Customer Bill of Rights

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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D - The MBTA Customer Bill of Rights." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Customer-Focused Service Guarantees and Transparency Practices. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25078.
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113 Our Commitment to You A Safe Ride Every Time We’re continuously monitoring the system to help keep you safe. In addition to Transit Police patrolling the system all day, cameras have been installed in stations and on our vehicles, and T employees are keeping their eyes and ears open for suspicious activity. You can help too. If you see something, say something by calling the Transit Police at 617-222-1212 or by speaking to an MBTA official. Courteous, Clean, Accessible, and Dependable Service All T employees are trained to ask the question, “How can we help you today?” Simply put, we’re here to help you reach your destination in a timely and positive way. If you find our service less than adequate, see a concern, or have an idea for how to improve the system please let us know how we can do better by visiting the customer support section of mbta.com. Accurate and Timely Information We make it our priority to provide you with timely information on service conditions and delays. If we anticipate delays of more than 15 minutes on any service we will post that informa- tion to mbta.com, send alerts to T-Alerts subscribers, and post information to station message boards. Want to know where your bus or train is? More than two dozen apps are available to track your bus, subway, or commuter rail train at mbta.com/apps. Improved Communications Your comments, questions, and ideas help make the T better. The General Manager and T’s senior management team are always out on the system. Join them at regular “Join the GM” ses- sions and customer roundtables. Can’t meet us in person? Send us a note through the customer support section of mbta.com, on Twitter at twitter.com/mbta, or through mobile tools. We make it our priority to respond within 5 days. Transparent Performance Measures How are we performing toward our goal of providing on-time, reliable service? The latest facts and figures about our performance are available in our monthly ScoreCard at mbta.com/ about_the_mbta/scorecard. A p p e n d i x d The MbTa Customer bill of Rights Source: MBTA (n.d.-a)

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TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 134: Customer-Focused Service Guarantees and Transparency Practices documents the nature and prevalence of customer-focused practices among transit providers in North America and supplements the discussion by including information from European transit providers.

A growing number of North American public transit agencies have adopted service guarantees or transparency practices as part of a customer-focused service strategy. Service guarantees describe the level of service customers can expect and the procedures they may follow if standards are not met. Transparency practices might include reporting performance metrics as online dashboards or report cards on the agency’s website. Currently, there is little existing research on these practices and experiences among U.S. transit providers.

Update June 29, 2018: Page i of the synthesis omits some of the authors. The correct author list is as follows:

Michael J. Walk

James P. Cardenas

Kristi Miller

Paige Ericson-Graber

Chris Simek

Texas A&M Transportation Institute

Austin, TX

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