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... 1CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION The declining costs of information processing, data storage, communications, and data retrieval, combined with the Internet and other new communications technologies, are revolutionizing the way services are delivered and organizations are structured throughout U.S. society.
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... An e-transit reference enterprise architecture developed at a level of detail that both captures the business objectives, functions, and processes and yet can still be easily explored and updated to assess potential e-transit applications meets this need. This concept paper is the result of Phase I of the development of a transit business model and e-transit reference enterprise architecture for assessing e-transit options.
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... Systems engineering as a discipline and process evolved during the 1960s and 1970s to assist the developers of the defense program and other complex high-technology systems in identifying and tracing requirements, examining tradeoffs, and evaluating risks to ensure that once the systems were implemented they worked as planned. Systems engineering provides a disciplined environment to design quality into complex systems from the very beginning.
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... ular situation or agency to be generally applicable to others, and assessing new potential e-transit applications will become unwieldy and time consuming. 1.3 PROPOSED ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE PRODUCTS Three major products are envisioned for this effort.

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