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II. CONTEXT There are several important aspects to the problem context; each will be discussed in this section.
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Figure 1: Schematic of Transportation Agency and Customer Functions as Related to Data 13
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Discovery and Transactional Data As the research continued, we found a useful framework to be breaking the trip down into two different phases, each with its own characteristics and data requirements. The first is the discovery phase and this relates to the customer focus common to mobility management activities.
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Figure 2 illustrates a typical screen showing the use of transactional data for a DRT system. Discovery and transactional data will be explored in more detail later in the report.
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contrast, the vast majority of DRT providers (or non-provider service sponsors) do not own the software they depend on for transacting business.
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Transit networks of bus and rail services are complex; they have many routes, each with different schedules that vary by the time of day or day of the week. Efficient networks are often fine-tuned, with limited stop service on busy routes or in peak periods, deviations at certain times, and frequency of service based on demand.
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contacted; six agreed to participate in an interview. The interviews were conducted by telephone and typically lasted 60 to 90 minutes.
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scheduling software vendors. This product currently does not include "connectors" or "adaptors" that would enable other software applications to post trips to or select trips from the white board.
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small-medium demand response systems in the state) , poses challenges to incentivizing collaboration on data standards by industry participants.
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Customer and Other Perspectives. Interviews with transportation providers illustrate the knowledge and awareness among those who depend on the exchange of data to improve mobility, or to provide more -- or more efficient -- service to their constituents.
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region who operate with different or manual scheduling systems? " Knowing the available options would help to drive project objectives and assist in measuring success.
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Information and referral (I&R) systems generally (and most One-Call/One-Click services)
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meaning from service to service and from system to system. This has led to the development of many applications, including mobile applications running on smartphones, for transit users in a number of large cities.
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