Sponsor
This research was funded by the National Institute for Transportation and Communities, or NITC, a program of TREC at Portland State University.
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
9-2009
Subjects
Local transit -- Oregon -- Portland Metropolitan Area, Transit operators
Abstract
This report analyzes factors contributing to short duration (one to three days) unscheduled absences among operators at TriMet, the transit provider for the Portland, Oregon metropolitan region. The analysis draws on a wide array of operator-specific information recovered by transit ITS technologies in combination with information from the agency’s human resources, scheduling, incident, and customer relations databases. The likelihood of an absence is estimated in relation to personal characteristics, employment status, aspects of assigned work, service delivery and performance indicators, temporal factors, and customer feedback. The findings can be used directly to support extraboard planning practices. More generally, the findings point to changes in policies and practices that would potentially reduce the incidence of short duration absences.
DOI
10.15760/trec.141
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/15957
Citation Details
Strathman, James G., Joseph Broach, and Steve Callas. Evaluation of Short Duration Unscheduled Absences Among Transit Operators: TriMet Case Study. OTREC-RR-09-05. Portland, OR: Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC), 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/trec.141
Description
This is the final report, OTREC-RR-09-05, and can be found online at: http://trec.pdx.edu/research/project/93
The Project Brief associated with this report can be found at: http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/16960