Transit Resource Center (TRC) excels at providing clients
with recommendations for optimizing dollars spent on transit operations.
These services include:
- Collecting, analyzing, and mapping boardings and alightings
by stop and route segment for individual route profiles.
- Analysis of temporal ridership patterns.
- Schedule adherence analysis providing specific mitigation actions
- Identifying route level strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities.
- Recommendations for improving overall system productivity and
efficiency.
Transit Resource Center (TRC) has written dozens of schedules
for medium, small-urbanized and rural transit systems. Improving
scheduling practices can help all transit agencies with their bottom
line. TRC can help you with:
- Establishing efficient timed transfer systems.
- Establishing customer friendly and reliable schedule time points.
- Ensuring schedule adherence through appropriate interlining
and schedule recovery techniques.
- Providing schedule interfaces between local and regional systems.
Transit Resource Center (TRC) is well known for its ability to
work with the transit agency, the community, and community stakeholders
to define a blueprint for the development of transit services.
Our general approach is to match market segment needs to services
levels within existing and prospective financial resources. This
mobility management philosophy to planning utilizes market research
to define needs, matches the appropriate mode to market needs,
and seeks collaborative partnerships for sustaining transit service
levels.
Comprehensive market research is the partner to comprehensive
planning. Transit Resource Center (TRC) and its partners rely on
market research data to inform the transit planning process. TRC
carefully selects the mix of market research techniques to meet
overall project goals within a project budget. These techniques
include:
- Focus groups
- Stakeholder interviews
- Onboard passenger surveys
- Intercept passenger surveys
- General public telephone surveys
Transit Resource Center (TRC) staff has provided national
leadership in the development of community oriented transit services.
TRC has hands-on experience in working with your community to plan
and implement:
- Community shuttles for the general public
- Community service routes for seniors and disabled
- Commuter shuttles to rail stations
- Route deviation services in suburban low-density areas
- Demand response services for both the general public and ADA
paratransit.
Transit Resource Center (TRC) is very familiar with Federal
Transit Administration, state and local funding programs for transit.
Our general approach is to diversify and maximize available funding
resources while developing an operating and capital financial plan
that meets community transit objectives. TRC can assist you with:
- Operating financial plans
- Capital financial plans
- Grant writing for federal, state, and local funding
- Fare revenue analysis
Transit Resource Center (TRC) is hired by cities, counties, and transit districts
to evaluate the efficiency and economy of transit functions: administration,
operations, maintenance, planning, and marketing. TRC utilizes six year trends
in key performance indicators by functional area to identify positive accomplishment
and recommend specific actions to achieve agency objectives and performance
standards.
Transit Resource Center (TRC) has developed
comprehensive express bus and rapid bus corridor plans
for both suburban and urban clients. TRC provides the
following types of services:
- Operations planning including routing, traffic
operations, line operations and fare pre-payment.
- Defining vehicle requirements including bus specifications,
evaluation of propulsion systems, vehicle capacity,
and low-floor considerations.
- Working with partners to develop station/bus stop
improvements including facility and location considerations.
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