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1 Effective transit planning, operations, maintenance, and analysis involve coordination among a wide array of internal and external partners to optimize system performance. As Peter Drucker has said, "can't improve what you don't measure" (Drucker 2006)
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2 The Transit Analyst Toolbox: Analysis and Approaches for Reporting, Communicating, and Examining Transit Data Transit Service Data and Performance Measures Transit service data are derived from several dependent systems. In many cases, data collected from one system feeds other systems (see Table 1 in Chapter 2)
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Summary 3 The survey specifically asked about major challenges to service data collection, curation, and management. The common response can be characterized as Ensuring quality data in a timely manner with sufficient resources (staff and skills)
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4 The Transit Analyst Toolbox: Analysis and Approaches for Reporting, Communicating, and Examining Transit Data • Starting with a slice of their corporate data, of which service data were among the first slice. • Taking an agile approach to implement governance, along with targeting a slice of data, each agency focused on an incremental approach to establishing formal data governance processes, meetings, and structures.
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Summary 5 include topics such as where to acquire the data, how to filter and clean the data, how to access the data, and what tools to use. • Best Practices in Managing Data for Small and Rural Transit Agencies' Data-Driven Systems.
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