Poor transit ride quality may not be an indicator of unsafe operation but may point to a vehicle or to an area of track that needs maintenance to prevent further geometry degradation. TCRP Web-Only Document 76: Performance-Based Track Geometry, Phase 3 , from TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program, helps to develop methods to identify track conditions and locations that cause poor ride quality...

Command-level decision making is a critical factor in successfully managing and mitigating critical incidents. The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's TCRP Web-Only Document 75: Command-Level Decision Making for Transportation Emergency Managers is a document done in collaboration with TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) and Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP...

Joint development is a subset of transit‐oriented development. It consists of residential, commercial, civic, or mixed‐use development that is closely coordinated with a transit facility and in which the transit agency participates through the use of its property, funding, or some other form of real estate or business transaction. The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's TCRP Web-Only Docume...

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web-Only Document 71: A Transit Agency Guide to Evaluating Secondary Train Detection/Protection Systems in Communications-Based Train Control Systems provides a practical approach to evaluating the appropriate level of secondary train detection/protection systems (STD/PS) for a given communications-based train control system application. In terms o...

There are three major perspectives on transit reliability: from the customer, agency, and operator points of view. The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's TCRP Web-Only Document 72: Developing a Guide to Bus Transit Service Reliability finds, through a transit agency survey, that most agencies do not have a formal bus service reliability improvement program. The guidebook presents a framewo...

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web Only Document 70: Improving the Resilience of Transit Systems Threatened by Natural Disasters, Volume 1: A Guide offers practices for transit systems of all sizes to absorb the impacts of disaster, recover quickly, and return rapidly to providing the services that customers rely on to meet their travel needs. The report shows how to identify an...

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web Only Document 70: Improving the Resilience of Transit Systems Threatened by Natural Disasters, Volume 3: Literature Review and Case Studies includes appendicies that outline the literature reviewed and 17 case studies that explore how transit agencies absorb the impacts of disaster, recover quickly, and return rapidly to providing the services ...

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web Only Document 70: Improving the Resilience of Transit Systems Threatened by Natural Disasters, Volume 2: Research Overview summarizes elements of the research effort that offers practices for transit systems of all sizes to absorb the impacts of disaster, recover quickly, and return rapidly to providing the services that customers rely on to me...

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web-Only Document 69: Decision-Making Toolbox to Plan and Manage Park-and-Ride Facilities for Public Transportation: Research Report and Transit Agency Case Studies supplements TCRP  Research Report 192 : Decision-Making Toolbox to Plan and Manage Park-and-Ride Facilities for Public Transportation: Guidebook on Planning and Managing Park-and-R...

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web-Only Document 68: Developing an ITS Technology Web Portal for Transit System Leaders documents the creation of a prototype portal that assists transit agency leaders with learning about technologies that can be applied to transit operations. When fully implemented, the ITS Technology Portal will reside on the American Public Transportation Asso...

TRB's Protection of Transportation Infrastructure from Cyber Attacks: A Primer provides transportation organizations with reference materials concerning cybersecurity concepts, guidelines, definitions, and standards. The primer is a joint product of two TRB Cooperative Research Programs, and is categorized as Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web-Only Document 67 and National Cooperative...

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web-Only Document 66: Improving Transportation Network Efficiency Through Implementation of Transit-Supportive Roadway Strategies documents the research methodology used to develop TCRP Report 183 : A Guidebook on Transit-Supportive Roadway Strategies. The web-only document provides detailed information on when these transit preferential treatments...

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web-Only Document 65: Wheel Profile Maintenance Guidelines examines current wheel profiles and maintenance practices, design and maintenance guidelines for rail transit operation, and the development of new wheel profiles for the Port Authority Trans-Hudson.

TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web-Only Document 64: Performance Based Track Geometry Phase 2 explores a track inspection method known as performance based track geometry, and explores the potential for this method to be applied in transit to optimize maintenance and ride quality. This report, as well as others in this TCRP project series, explores the extent to which research per...

TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web-Only Document 63: Treatments Used at Pedestrian Crossings of Public Transit Rail Services presents methods and research activities that informed the development of TCRP Report 175: Guidebook on Pedestrian Crossings of Public Transit Rail Services . The research activities conducted to develop the Guidebook include conducting a literature rev...

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web-Only Document 62: Standardizing Data for Mobility Management explores opportunities for the standardization of data relevant to mobility management systems. The report focuses on near-term and long-term objectives.

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web-Only Document 61: Millennials and Mobility: Understanding the Millennial Mindset and New Opportunities for Transit Providers is designed to help public transit providers increase ridership by better understanding Millennials lifestyle and mobility decision-making processes. A quantitative survey was used in the development of TCRP Web-Only Docu...

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web-Only Document 60 and National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web -Only Document 200: Command-Level Decision Making for Transit Emergency Managers describes a Transit Emergency Response Application (TERA) that is designed to train transit command-level decision makers through simulation guided experiential learning. TERA provides t...

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web-Only Document 59: Using Pictograms to Make Transit Easier to Navigate for Customers with Communication Barriers explores whether pictograms–picture-based communication tools that use illustrations with few or no words–can be effective in communicating emergency information and behavioral modification to people with communication challenges ...

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web-Only Document 58: Methods for Forecasting Demand and Quantifying Need for Rural Passenger Transportation supplements TCRP Report 161 by describing how the research team developed the report’s need and demand estimation methods, the findings of the analyses, and recommendations for functions to be used in estimation of need and demand. TCRP Repo...