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Planning for Public Transit

As transit agencies struggle to do more with less, planning becomes a crucial part of the business. The implementation of intelligent transit systems has produced vast quantities of data that are potentially valuable for planning purposes. Many types of external data, including maps, Census data, school enrolment, ADA zones are also available. The challenge is figuring out how to manage all of these data so that they provide relevant information. 

Trapeze develops solutions to meet the needs of transit agencies looking to gather and analyze masses of data in order to cut costs, improve service and automate the creation of reports and funding applications. These powerful, easy-to-use, GIS-based tools integrate with scheduling applications and third-party data to help managers, planners and schedulers build better services. 

Trapeze Fixed route planning solutions help agencies understand their routes, ridership and service areas, and plan for changing demand. Features can include: 

• Ridership analysis. Analyze ridership data, identify key patterns and develop reports
• Schedule adherence. Maintain optimum service levels using GPS data
• Reporting. Automatically generate NTD Form 406 random samples reports, ad hoc and standard management reports
• Demographic analysis. Use spatial tools to obtain a better understanding of current and future riders.
• Location analysis: spatially analyze transit and location data for better service planning
• Demand forecasting: Analyze the effect of service changes and other factors on the propensity of specific groups to travel.

Trapeze Demand Response planning solutions enable agencies to find operational efficiciencies that, however small, can lead to huge cost savings over time. Features can include:  

• Travel training. Find the best candidates for fixed route travel training comparing historical trip information to fixed route data.
• Flexible routing. Use historical paratransit data to help design efficient flexible routes. 
• Schedule & vehicle optimization. Reschedule trips based ‘what if’ scenarios. 

Our planning systems integrate seamlessly with other components including fixed route scheduling, demand response scheduling and dispatch, operations management, customer information (incl. Web and IVR), and intelligent transit technologies such as CAD/AVL, APC, on-board passenger information, etc. 

For more information about our solutions for public transit, contact a Trapeze representative.