Abstract

Analyze Paratransit Services Using GIS
Track: Transportation
Authors: Songmei Li

Using GIS to assist decision-making on paratransit service provision is part of the workflow for staff at Pace Bus, a public transit agency.

Pace Bus has developed customized GIS applications that enable non-GIS staff to analyze spatial patterns of paratransit trips by time of day, day of week and provider. These GIS applications assist paratransit service staff to effectively analyze and monitor service performance, and improve paratransit service efficiency. The applications, customized into the ArcGIS desktop, are developed using ArcObjects in ArcGIS and .NET programming language.

This presentation demonstrates how GIS is being used to analyze and visualize non-spatial data for non-GIS professionals and to provide a very powerful tool to make intelligent decisions.