Transit: planning, management and maintenance, technology, marketing and fare policy, and capacity and quality of service. A peer-reviewed publication of the Transportation Research Board TRB.

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board No. 1927 is a five-part volume that focuses on such topics as coordinating public and school transportation in Iowa; using a performance-based approach for funding public transit; introducing contactless, smart card technology in rural New Mexico; evaluating the accuracy and value of automatic passenger counters; and examining the quality of service in an urbanized area in Ontario, Canada, using the revised Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual. This Transportation Research Record contains 31 papers on transit. The papers address the following topics: planning of public transit, including bus rapid transit and light rail transit, as well as planning for transit station accessibility, park-and-ride facilities, job access, and mobility; transit management, including funding, contracting, terrorism preparedness, service integration, repair scheduling, fleet asset management, and support software use; technological innovations; marketing and fare policy; and transit capacity and quality of service. For abstracts of some of the papers see C 41770 - C 41776.