Role of Private-for-Hire Vehicles in Texas Public Transit

摘要

The Texas Transportation Institute divided this project into three general tasks. The first task involved fielding a web-based information outreach effort to both the PHV industry and public transit providers. An interactive web survey compiled a profile of each respondent, providing information on fleet size and composition, organizational structure, contract type used, dispatching system used, and type of services offered. The results are compared to those of the TCRP study. The information from all three sources (PHV, local transit, TCRP) identifies opportunities and challenges regarding the use of PHV in the Texas transit environment.