TCRP Synthesis 5 - Transportation Research Board

1 TRANSIT COOPERATIVE Research PROGRAM. SPONSORED BY. The Federal Transit Administration TCRP Synthesis 5. Management Information Systems A Synthesis of Transit Practice Transportation Research Board National Research Council TCRP OVERSIGHT AND PROJECT Transportation Research Board EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1994. SELECTION COMMITTEE. CHAIRMAN OFFICERS. WILLIAM W. MILLAR. Port Authority of Allegheny County Chair: Joseph M. Sussman, JR East Professor and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology MEMBERS Vice Chair: Lillian C.

2 Liburdi, Director, Port Authority, The Port Authority of New York and New SHARON D. BANKS Jersey AC Transit Executive Director: Robert E. Skinner, Jr., Transportation Research Board , National Research Council LEE BARNES. Barwood, Inc GERALD L. BLAIR MEMBERS. Indiana County Transit Authority MICHAEL BOLTON BRIAN J. L. BERRY, Lloyd Viel Berkner Regental Professor & Chair, Bruton Center for Development Capital Metro Studies, University of Texas at Dallas SHIRLEY A. DELIBERO DWIGHT M. BOWER, Director, Idaho Department of Transportation New Jersey Transit Corporation JOHN E.

3 BREEN, The Nasser I Al-Rashid Chair in Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin ROD DIRIDON KIRK BROWN, Secretary, Illinois Department of Transportation Santa Clara County Transit District DAVID BURWELL, President, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy SANDRA DRAGGOO L. GARY BYRD, Consulting Engineer, Alexandria, Virginia CATA A. RAY CHAMBERLAIN, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Transportation (Past Chair, LOUIS J. GAMBACCINI 1993). SEPTA RAY W. CLOUGH, Nishkian Professor of Structural Engineering, Emeritus, University of California, DELON HAMPTON Berkeley Delon Hampton & Associates RICHARD K.

4 DAVIDSON, Chairman and CEO, Union Pacific Railroad RICHARD R. KELLY JAMES C. DELONG, Director of Aviation, Stapleton International Airport, Denver, Colorado Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corp DELON HAMPTON, Chairman and CEO, Delon Hampton & Associates ALAN F. KIEPPER DON C. KELLY, Secretary and Commissioner of Highways, Transportation Cabinet, Kentucky New York City Transit Authority ROBERT KOCHANOWSKI, Executive Director, Southwestern Pennsylvania Regional Planning EDWARD N. KRAVITZ Commission The Flxible Corporation JAMES L. LAMMIE, President and CEO, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Inc.

5 ROBERT G. LINGWOOD WILLIAM W. MILLAR, Executive Director, Port Authority of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Past BC Transit Chair, 1992). MIKE MOBEY CHARLES P. O'LEARY, JR, Commissioner, New Hampshire Department of Transportation Isabella County Transportation Comm JUDE W. P. PATIN, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development DON S. MONROE NEIL PETERSON, former Executive Director, Los Angeles County Transportation Commission Pierce Transit DARREL RENSINK, Director, Iowa Department of Transportation PATRICIA S. NETTLESHIP JAMES W. VAN LOBEN SELS, Director, California Department of Transportation The Nettleship Group, Inc.

6 C. MICHAEL WALTON, Ernest H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering and Chairman, ROBERT E. PAASWELL Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin The City College of New York DAVID N. WORMLEY, Dean of Engineering, Pennsylvania State University JAMES P. REICHERT HOWARD YERUSALIM, Secretary of Transportation , Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Transportation Management Services ROBERT A. YOUNG III, President, ABF Freight Systems, Inc. LAWRENCE G. REUTER. WMATA. VICKIE SHAFFER EX OFFICIO MEMBERS. The Tri-State Transit Authority JAMES H.

7 SLAKEY MIKE ACOTT, President, National Asphalt Pavement Association Washington DOT ROY A. ALLEN, Vice President, Research and Test Department, Association of American Railroads B. R. STOKES ANDREW H. CARD, JR., President and CEO, American Automobile Manufacturers Association ATE Management & Service Co THOMAS J. DONOHUE, President and CEO, American Trucking Associations MICHAEL S. TOWNES FRANCIS B. FRANCOIS, Executive Director, American Association of State Highway and Peninsula Transportation Dist. Comm Transportation Officials JACK R. GILSTRAP, Executive Vice President, American Public Transit Association EX OFFICIO MEMBERS ALBERT J.

8 HERBERGER, Maritime Administrator, of Transportation ROBERT E. SKINNER, JR. DAVID R. HINSON, Federal Aviation Administrator, of Transportation TRB GORDON J. LINTON, Federal Transit Administrator, of Transportation FRANCIS B. FRANCOIS RICARDO MARTINEZ, National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator, of AASHTO Transportation JACK R. GILSTRAP JOLENE M. MOLITORIS, Federal Railroad Administrator, of Transportation APTA DAVE SHARMA, Research and Special Programs Administrator, of Transportation GORDON J. LINTON RODNEY E. SLATER, Federal Highway Administrator, of Transportation FTA ARTHUR E.

9 WILLIAMS, Chief of Engineers and Commander, Corps of Engineers RODNEY E. SLATER. FHWA. TRANSIT COOPERATIVE Research PROGRAM. TDC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. FRANK J. CIHAK Transportation Research Board Executive Committee Subcommittee for TCRP. APTA A. RAY CHAMBERLAIN, Colorado Department of Transportation LILLIAN C. LIBURDI, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey SECRETARY GORDON J. LINTON, of Transportation ROBERT J. REILLY WILLIAM W. MILLAR, Port Authority of Allegheny County TRB JOSEPH M. SUSSMAN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (Chair). L. GARY BYRD, Consulting Engineer ROBERT E.

10 SKINNER, JR., Transportation Research Board TRANSIT COOPERATIVE Research PROGRAM. Synthesis of Transit Practice 5. Management Information Systems ROGER BOLDT. Consultant Kalona, Iowa Topic Panel RONALD E. BOENAU, Federal Transit Administration GORMAN GILBERT, University of North Carolina HOWARD G. EISENSTADT, MTA New York City Transit LORA G. MAYO, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority PATRICIA "TISH" S. NETTLESHIP, The Nettleship Group, Inc JAMES A. SCOTT, Transportation Research Board RAYMOND M. WRIGHT, Mass Transit Administration SAM YAGAR, University of Waterloo Transportation Research Board .