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193 Jonathan Dropkin Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine with Nathan Bubash RLS & Associates, Inc. Robin Mary Gillespie City University of New York School of Labor and Urban Studies Corresponding author: robin.gillespie@slu.cuny.edu.
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194 Improving the Safety, Health, and Productivity of Transit Operators Through Adequate Restroom Access Methods A literature search was conducted on the impact of restroom access on operations in the transit industry. It looked at six databases: • The Transportation Research Board's TRID (Transport Research International Documentation)
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Summary of the Literature on Restroom Access and Transit Operations 195 Employee Availability," Volinski (1999) addresses practices and policies transit agencies have implemented to reduce absenteeism.
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196 Improving the Safety, Health, and Productivity of Transit Operators Through Adequate Restroom Access split shifts, long workdays, and stressful contact with the public. Potential new hires can often find less physically, psychologically, and cognitively demanding work with adequate pay and benefits.
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Summary of the Literature on Restroom Access and Transit Operations 197 customer feedback. The researchers reported that work absence is statistically related to speeding, which represents a potential safety threat; the factors associated with speeding included extended layover times, departing from the route origin late, and "highballing it" to get back on schedule, all potentially related to restroom access (Strathman et al.
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198 Improving the Safety, Health, and Productivity of Transit Operators Through Adequate Restroom Access on UTA reorganization for new hires, addresses flexible schedules, the extra-board and splitshift requirements, and job stressors of operators. Lastly, in 2000, UTA created a Bus Operator Restroom Task Team to address the insufficient number of restroom facilities along bus routes.
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Summary of the Literature on Restroom Access and Transit Operations 199 Infrastructure Literature Summary Three important restroom access factors that affect on-time service delivery and are largely determined by the available infrastructure were identified as significant for planners and schedulers: restroom location, type, and travel time (Boyle et al.
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200 Improving the Safety, Health, and Productivity of Transit Operators Through Adequate Restroom Access Public participation plays an important role in the success of the project. Before SFMTA could construct an Operator Convenience Station, a lengthy approval process was required involving city agencies, the board of supervisors, commissions, and the community (SFMTA 2017)
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Summary of the Literature on Restroom Access and Transit Operations 201 Transport for London When the Mayor of London, son of a bus driver, realized the extent to which the city's geography and economics made it difficult for drivers to use restrooms, he supported a significant campaign known as Bus Driver Facilities Improvements to remedy the problems reported by workers and their union. The program had three main arms.
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202 Improving the Safety, Health, and Productivity of Transit Operators Through Adequate Restroom Access (Ji et al.
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Summary of the Literature on Restroom Access and Transit Operations 203 tightened with the use of scheduling software and vehicle location data, leaving less flexibility for unplanned restroom access. As driving conditions change -- for example, reductions in urban speed limits -- operators may be expected to maintain the same schedule and running times until schedules catch up (Volinski 1999)
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204 Improving the Safety, Health, and Productivity of Transit Operators Through Adequate Restroom Access technology can mediate the impact of unscheduled restroom needs. For example, extra drivers can be sent to layover points or subway stations to provide relief for operators along routes (Strathman et al.
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Summary of the Literature on Restroom Access and Transit Operations 205 Ji, Y., He, L., and Zhang, H
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206 Improving the Safety, Health, and Productivity of Transit Operators Through Adequate Restroom Access Costs and Evaluation Bibliography Many of the sources listed above address costs and evaluation measures. The following references could provide additional insight.
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Summary of the Literature on Restroom Access and Transit Operations 207 recommendations address improvements in safety performance measures, granularity in data collection efforts, and a reporting and analysis framework. This report begins by introducing safety performance measurement and how safety performance measurement informs the safety management system approach and then discusses improvements in safety performance measurement, the functional reporting and analysis requirements of an improved reporting platform, and leading and lagging safety performance indicators that may be of interest to transit agencies.
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