Transit Standards
Newsletter
A Publication of the Transit Standards
Consortium, Inc.
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A Word from the President of
TSC…
I
am happy to report that the TSC continues to move forward with services that
benefit members directly in their daily work.
This newsletter highlights just two of these services. I urge you to join TSC to take advantage of
member savings on these and other features (http://www.tsconsortium.org/Membership/JoinTSCin2003.htm)
--Richard C. Hodges, TSC President
TSC Joins Forces with the
American Society of Civil Engineers (www.asce.org)
and The Infrastructure Security Partnership (www.tisp.org)
to Host a 3-Part Web Seminar Series on “Transportation Security and Standards.”
In
early April, The Transit Standards Consortium signed a
Memorandum of Understanding to jointly host the next 3 sessions of its popular
National Teleconference Series with the ASCE and TISP. For these three events, the series will be
upgraded from a teleconference to a “Web Seminar” format, whereby presentation
slides and interaction with the audience will occur via the Internet.
The
technical programs will be coordinated by TSC’s
National Teleconference Series Task Force, the Transportation and Development
Institute’s Transportation Security Committee, and TISP. The series will be held on the third
Wednesdays of May, June and July 2003.
For
more information about the series, contact Mark Stewart, TSC Technical Program
Manager mstewart@palisadesgroup.com
or Tom Sullivan, TSC Board Member tom.sullivan@tsd.org
or visit http://www.tsconsortium.org/TSC2003/NationalTeleconSeries/TeleconSeries2003.htm.
Bus Stop Inventory Best
Practices Guidelines: Order Online!
These
guidelines describe collection, storage and maintenance procedures as
recommended by agencies and vendors who develop, implement and use stop
inventories.
The
guidelines in this document are developed to apply to small, medium and large
transit agencies. Specifically, the TSC Task
Force headed by Jeffrey Orton was cognizant of the cost of collecting and
maintaining these inventories, and so the discussion includes assessment of the
resources (funding, personnel and skill sets) required to accomplish and update
the inventories.
Each
agency has internal priorities, needs and resources. As such, this document is not a standard or
singular approach for collecting bus stop information, nevertheless, the
document recommends existing and emerging standards for data and communications
interfaces and provides guidance in adopting those standards to the bus stop
inventory.
Copies
may be ordered online at: http://www.tsconsortium.org/TSC2003/BSIOrders/BSIOrderForm.htm. TSC Members $45,
non-Members $75. Available in
hardcopy (add $5.95 shipping and handling) or PDF format.
Transit Standards Newsletter
Copyright © 2003 Transit Standards
Consortium, Inc.
Published bi-monthly by the Transit
Standards Consortium, Inc., an independent, non-profit, IRS 501 (c) (3)
educational organization
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