The san diego metropolitan transit development board (mtdb) was created by the california state legislation in 1975 and empowered toplan, construct, and operate mass transit guideways and to perform near-term planning. The agency has evolved into an umbrella organization that has broad transit development, planning, programming, and financing powers. Operations of transit services are performed by a variety of operational units controlled by mtdb in a unified system.This system has been officially called the metropolitan transit system (mts). Made up of six fixed-route bus carriers, one light rail transit (lrt) operator, and four general-purpose dial-a-rides, the mts is characterized by unified fares, transfers, passes, and route numbers. This paper appeared in transportation research record no. 1144, Transit management, marketing, and performance. For covering abstract see IRRD no 818469.
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