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9 Fixed-route transit scheduling is a craft with roots back at least to the 19th century. Case in point, the Thomas Cook European Rail Timetable, a compendium of train schedules in Europe, started publication in 1873 (European Rail Timetable 2018)
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10 Managing the Transit Scheduling Workforce In addition to this five-step process, transit schedules often are published and distributed publicly in the form of general transit feed specification (GTFS) data, web pages, and paper time tables and schedule books.
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Literature Review 11 • Interlining: the use of the same vehicle or block operating on more than one route with the same operator, without returning to the garage during route changes. • Layover or recovery time: the time between the scheduled arrival and departure of a vehicle at a transit terminal.
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12 Managing the Transit Scheduling Workforce c. Service standards.
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Literature Review 13 accountants. Transit schedulers must have adequate knowledge of and an ability to utilize all relevant inputs to the scheduling process to create high-quality transit schedules.
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14 Managing the Transit Scheduling Workforce the main reference on transit scheduling was from 1946 (according to Pine et al.
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Literature Review 15 In addition to APC and AVL data, third parties also have data that can be useful during the scheduling process. Google Maps, for example, can help estimate the travel time between any two points across different days of the week and times of the day -- information that can help fine-tune deadhead times.
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16 Managing the Transit Scheduling Workforce Although not all organizations are intentional and strategic about their workforce management practices, research suggests that good workforce management practices can lead to better organizational performance (e.g., see Karami et al.
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Literature Review 17 process. Because a transit schedule impacts and influences so many aspects of a transit agency's costs and performance, it is critical that transit agencies have the resources to adequately manage transit schedulers through the entire employee life cycle.
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