Abstract
GIS Tools to Support Transit System Planning and Operations
Track: Transportation
Author
The first is an ArcMap customization which allows analysts to quickly and effortlessly compare the speed of transit services against passenger automobiles as competing transportation modes. This customization includes geoprocessing tools and pre-configured datasets for non-GIS specialists. This tool can be used in long-range planning as well as fine-tuning the transit service.
The second highlights a business intelligence analysis that captures commuter travel behavioral patterns from farebox transactions. Farebox transaction records are uploaded to a data warehouse from transit vehicles after every run. These records, after suitable geoprocessing, provide the authority traveler diaries at negligible costs compared to survey methods. Deployed in a data warehousing suite, this tool is transparent to the end users; thus requiring little or no user intervention to operate. This spatial data mining tool enables planners to have comprehensive and timely views of the transit ridership. ArcGIS is used to visualize the resulting transit trip patterns.
Jim Sterling
OCTA
550 S. Main St.
Orange, California 92863-1584
United States
Phone: (714) 560-5684
E-mail: jsterling@octa.net
Mark Jackman
OCTA
550 S. Main St.
Orange, California 92863-1584
United States
Phone: (714) 560-5724
E-mail: mjackman@octa.net
Kelly Chan
HDR Engineering
2280 Market St
Ste #100
Riverside, California 92501-2119
United States
Phone: (951) 320-7300
E-mail: Kelly.Chan@hdrinc.com
Tobias Wolf
HDR Inc.
8690 Balboa Ave
Suite 200
San Diego, California 92123
United States
Phone: 858-712-8370
E-mail: tobias.wolf@hdrinc.com
Yuying Li
HDR Engineering
8690 Balboa Ave
San Diego, California 92130
United States
Phone: 858-712-8381
E-mail: yuying.li@hdrinc.com