Bus Stop Inventory
Best Practices
and Recommended Procedures

Bus Stop Inventory Task Force
Transit Standards Consortium, Inc.

21 August 2000

This best practices and recommended procedures report will be of interest to transit staff, consultants and vendors interested in developing, specifying or using the information collected or derived from a bus stop inventory.  The bus stop inventory is a core data management tool for supporting planning, operations, maintenance and marketing functions throughout an agency.  It supports the deployment of advanced technology systems such as Geographic Information Systems, Itinerary Planning, Automated Passenger Counting and Automatic Vehicle Location.  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 Task Force 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.

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