Benefits Goals: Efficiency

220 unique benefits found.

The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) achieved a 92 percent accuracy rate for real-time bus arrival prediction, building from AVL/CAD technology to include GPS.
Date Posted: 07/12/2013 | Source Date:
Improve passenger information accuracy and reduce redundant hardware without overwhemling communications capacity, by integrating adaptive traffic signal priorty and dynamic passenger information systems into existing AVL/ACS systems on transit vehic
Date Posted: 01/31/2013 | Source Date:
Field data collected over the last two decades show variable speed limit (VSL) systems can reduce crash potential by 8 to 30 percent.
Date Posted: 12/07/2012 | Source Date:
Tire pressure monitoring and maintenance systems improved motor carrier fuel economy by 1.4 to 1.8 percent.
Date Posted: 08/24/2012 | Source Date:
In Washington D.C., allowing transit vehicles priority during a no-notice evacuation resulted in a 26 percent time saving for transit buses without impacting on personal vehicle travel time.
Date Posted: 01/30/2012 | Source Date:
Deploying ITS transit technologies, such as CAD/AVL and traveler information services, to coordinate community transportation services for the transportation-disadvantaged improved non-Medicaid demand response trips by 18 percent and non-emergency Me
Date Posted: 12/19/2011 | Source Date:
After presence detection, adaptive signal control, and transit signal priority were implemented on the Atlanta Smart Corridor total fuel consumption decreased by 34 percent across all peak periods.
Date Posted: 10/31/2011 | Source Date:
Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) on the I-15 Corridor in San Diego yielded an estimated benefit-to-cost ratio of 9.7:1.
Date Posted: 09/28/2011 | Source Date:
In rural Pennsylvania, demand-response service vehicles experienced a nine percent increase in overall on-time performance and over five percent decrease in non-revenue miles traveled.
Date Posted: 07/02/2011 | Source Date:
Overtime hours for drivers reduced and no staff increase necessary to handle over 10 percent increase in transit ridership over six years.
Date Posted: 07/02/2011 | Source Date:
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