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A-1 A P P E N D I X A Case Study Identification This section summarizes the research activities and results related to data collection for case study site identification as of September 30, 2018. The Econometrica team developed and distributed a survey to agencies and unions that had participated in a prior TCRP project, the results of which are published in TCRP Report 169: Developing Best-Practice Guidelines for Improving Bus Operator Health and Retention and to agencies that responded to a query on the American Public Transportation Association (APTA)
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A-2 Improving the Health and Safety of Transit Workers with Corresponding Impacts on the Bottom Line A.2 Preliminary Screening This section lists the program characteristics that were required to pass the preliminary screening for consideration as one of the benefit-cost analysis case studies. Much of the information needed for the preliminary screening was found by reviewing the information provided in TCRP Report 169 and the email responses to the APTA query.
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Case Study Identification A-3 communications from the project team to collect additional data for the narrative and benefit-cost analysis. Next, the selected case studies were analyzed for representation among categories of interest.
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A-4 Improving the Health and Safety of Transit Workers with Corresponding Impacts on the Bottom Line Measures of program outcomes were typically the dependent variables (e.g., sick days, disability, wages lost) , whereas the demographic and occupational variables were the independent variables.
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Case Study Identification A-5 The results allowed for an analysis of the characteristics of programs that produced measures of cost savings or net positive benefits that could be quantified, isolated, and potentially applied successfully in other situations. Although past studies have included profiles of successful strategies to promote the health and safety of public transit workers, there have been limited examples of strategies that provided net benefits (benefits minus costs)
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A-6 Improving the Health and Safety of Transit Workers with Corresponding Impacts on the Bottom Line data and the agency's willingness to participate. They did not provide a detailed program description, even though some did indicate the existence of a program.
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Case Study Identification A-7 A.8.4 Regions The proposal indicated the following six regions: Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Pacific, Northwest, and Midwest. As an official map with these divisions was unavailable, the team decided to use the map from the U.S.
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