Task Order 6403
Transit Operations Research


Stage 5 Test Deployment of Efficient Deployment of Advanced Public Transportation Systems (EDAPTS)

Xudong Jia
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
California Polytechnic State University, Pomona

Jeffrey Gerfen
Research Engineer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Summary

The purpose of this project is to perform a "hands-off" test deployment of EDAPTS, with the goal of understanding the commercialization of EDAPTS and documenting its results. By analyzing and documenting the effectiveness of the deployment process and successful operation of EDAPTS, the research team will be able to create a system deployment package complete with handbook to guide small- and medium-sized transit property owners through the replication of elements tested at both Cal Poly universities. Included in this handbook is an economic assessment and justification for EDAPTS and its developmental life cycle, funding, features, implementation sequence, maintenance, measures of success, public feedback, and subsystems.

Other deliverables consist of a final report describing the entire test process, a preliminary compilation of EDAPTS implementation steps, and a one-day workshop session at Caltrans (or another location if specified).

Related PATH Articles/Journals

Xudong Jia and Jeff Gerfen, "Cal Poly Pomona EDAPTS Test Deployment Operations Description Version 6.0" (UCB-ITS-PWP-2007-02). 01 July 2007.