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8 CHAPTER TWO PROJECT APPROACH DEFINITION AND APPLICATION OF PERFORMANCE MEASURES As suggested in the Introduction, transit performance is measured in a variety of ways, including • • • • • • Indicators in ratio form that measure traditional internal transit performance, that is, the relationship between outputs achieved and levels of resource consumed; Other single-dimensional factors that gauge agency goal achievement; and Factors and measures that gauge the contribution of transit in the pursuit of broader community goals. In addition, each of these types of measures is being used to influence varying types of funding decisions, including Allocation of state transit funding to transit operating agencies; Assignment of project priorities for funding during development of regional transportation improvement programs (TIPs)
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9 lately there has been little interest in the topic. Annotations from a selected group of the most relevant sources have been compiled and included in this synthesis.
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10 Twenty-one transit agencies were asked about their use of performance measures to allocate funds among existing and proposed services as a matter of annual budget development, with survey responses received from eight. With regard to community size and transit intensity, transit agency responses are weighted toward urbanized areas • • • Five systems were from major urbanized areas with populations of more than 1 million (San Francisco, California; Tampa, Florida; Denver, Colorado; San Jose, California; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
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