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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority."”.
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A cost efficient maintenance inventory policy for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1999.
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Analysis of the 2012 Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority fare increase using automated fare collection data
… This thesis presents a study of the 2012 Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) fare increase using AFC system data. Fares increased by an average of 23%, but the increases varied by fare type, which is based on the user type and medium type, and trip mode. Elasticities by fare …
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The marketing of public transportation case study : commuter rail at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.
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Transit extraboard operator scheduling
… focusing on a case study using data from the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA).
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Improving the transfer experience at intermodal transit stations through innovative dispatch strategies
… cases of Alewife and Wellington Stations in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) system and to 79 Street Station in the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) system shows that the headway-based hold light system can produce substantial passenger wait time savings if implemented in an …
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Is planning failing? : the impacts of decision making processes on the Green Line Extension
… from Cambridge through Somerville and Medford, Massachusetts. The project is being undertaken by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Due to legal commitments and agreements, the line must be in revenue service by December 31, …
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A Better Bus Map: How Good Transit Map Design Can Strengthen the MBTA’s Bus System
… years. With an ongoing network redesign by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) seeking to create a dense network of high frequency bus lines as well as growing political momentum for fare-free transit spearheaded by Mayor of Boston Michelle Wu, the current moment is an exciting …
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Subway spaces as public places : politics and perceptions of Boston's T
Subways play crucial transportation roles in our cities, but they also act as unique public spaces, distinguished by specific design characteristics, governed by powerful state-run institutions, and subject to intense public scrutiny and social debate. This thesis takes the case of the United …
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Planning transit networks with origin, destination, and interchange inference
… case studies are presented using data from the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), the transit agency for the Boston region. First, three target locations in the MBTA service area are analyzed. Service changes that would improve access to each of these locations are proposed and …
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Making data matter : the role of information design and process in applying automated data to improve transit service
… can know about service. This research uses the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) as a case study. It first assesses how the MBTA currently uses real-time and historical data. Based on this assessment, it redesigns and advances the agency's daily performance reports for rapid …
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Towards Regional Rail: Strategies for Service Transformation on the Worcester/Framingham Line
… renewed focus to the efficiency of cities’ transportation networks and the benefits of mode shift away from the private automobile and towards transit. Over the last three years, changes in journey patterns resulting from the social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have triggered questions …
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Evaluating online surveys for public transit agencies using a prompted recall approach
… about the journey made by the respondent. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), Boston's public transit agency, was used as a case study to develop a customer panel and test the online survey approach with prompted recall. The research showed that verifying a trip was made in …
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Quantifying the current and future impacts of the MBTA Corporate Pass Program
Many city and regional transportation authorities, including the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in Boston, offer a monthly pass to local employers which they can distribute to their employees. There are many ways in which an agency, employer or individual benefit from an employer …
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Improving high-frequency transit reliability : a case study of the MBTA Green Line through simulation and field experiments of real-time control strategies
Service reliability is a major concern for public transportation agencies. Transit services experience natural variability in scheduled service, due to factors such as traffic congestion, irregular demand, multi-route and branching corridors, and operator behavior. This variability leads to …
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Community Involvement in commuter rail improvements : the case of the Fairmount Line in Boston
… study used is the Fairmount Line, a 9.2 -mile Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority commuter rail line that passes through largely low-income, minority neighborhoods entirely within Boston. For most of its history it has seen low levels of service. Starting in the early 2000s, community …
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Real time dispatching control in transit systems
… incidents that affect the service quality of transportation agencies can be categorized into two types, major disruptions and minor disturbances, based on their nature and causes. To maximize the capacity of a rail transit line and avoid busing, single track operation is analyzed in this …
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Using real-time data to improve reliability on high-frequency transit services
… services. Two high-frequency bus routes of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority are used as a case study. It begins with the development of an application to download, interpret, and present data on bus service and recommended control actions in a graphical user interface. This …
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Using automatically collected data to improve the bus service planning process
… performance metrics used by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in their respective service planning processes. A set of recommended performance metrics are proposed in the categories of bus loading, service reliability, passenger demand, …
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Analyzing transit equity using automatically collected data
… origins and destinations in the context of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). From a sample month of these data, an example of a passenger-centric analysis is performed by comparing travel times and speeds of trips with origins in areas home to predominantly Black or African …
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Understanding bus passenger crowding through origin destination inference
… to measure passenger crowding on buses using the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) bus network as a case study. There are three primary components of this research: vehicle trip level origin destination interchange (ODX) scaling; development of passenger centric crowding metrics, …
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