Understanding Transit:

Basic course material on Public Transportation

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Center for Urban Transportation Studies

The objective of this project is to disseminate educational materials about public transit that can be used at the university level for courses in transportation planning, engineering and management.

Course learning objectives and outline

Acknowledgements

Topics

Consolidated files of each of the major sections

Background Information

• Introduction to this section and assignments (Read this First!)

• Differences Between Highway and Transit Planning power point

• Transit Benefits
• Transit Benefits power point slides

• Understanding Transit Demand
  
• Understanding Transit Demand power point

• A Profile of Public Transit Riders (from APTA)
  
• The National Transit Database

• Excerpts from Transit Capacity and Level of Service manual

• Glossary of Transit Planning Terms

Transit Planning Major Investments and New Starts

• Introduction and Assignments

• New starts procedures for major investments in Transit
• Power point presentation of new starts procedures for major investments in Transit

• FTA information on new starts - major capital investments process

• Transit Technology Alternatives
• Transit Technology Alternatives power point slides

Analysis procedures for Major Investments and New Starts

• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Environmental Impact Assessment power point slides

• Environmental Justice and Transportation Planning
• Environmental Justice and Transportation Planning power point slides

• Transit and Land Use
• Transit and Land Use power point slides

• A Transportation Modeling Primer

Transit Planning for Operations

• Introduction to Transit Planning for Operations

• Transit Operations Decisions
• Transit Operations Decisions power point

• Transit Performance Evaluation
• Performance evaluation power point slides

• Use of Performance Data
• Use of Performance Data power point slides

• Use of GIS for performance evaluation

• Transit and Geographic Information Systems - power point

• Transit Five Year Plan examples

Transit Route Location and Analysis

• Introduction to Transit Route Location and Analysis

• Who wants to be a Transit Planner? - Windows version of CAI Fundamentals of transit course
  
• Exhibits for the CAI Fundamentals of transit course

• Alternatives for Transit Systems Change
• Alternatives for Transit Systems Change - power point

• Principles of Route Location
  
• Transit Route Location Slides

Analysis Procedures for Transit Operations

• Fleet Size Calculations
  
• Fleet Size Problems
  
• Solutions to Fleet Size Problems

• Transit Scheduling
  
• Transit Scheduling power point

• Transit Demand Analysis
  
• Transit Operations Demand Analysis power point

• Transit Operations Cost Analysis
  
• Transit Operations Cost Analysis power point

Project: The Belle Crisis

• Belle Crisis Project Description

• Belle Crisis Spreadsheet

Useful Web sites

Univ of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Center for Urban Transportation Studies (CUTS) links to transit web sites

Federal Transit Administration

Transit Cooperative Research Program

CUTS general links to transportation web pages:

Acknowledgements

Some of this material was developed as part of work being conducted by the Great Cities University consortium under the lead of the University of Alabama at Birmingham using funds provided by the Federal Transit Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The opinions expressed are the product of independent university work and not necessarily those of the sponsoring agencies or of the agencies supplying data for the project. The material is copyright by Edward Beimborn.

This page is maintained by Edward A Beimborn

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