September 2007

Fixed Route Bus Transit Agency Deployments

Agency Name	Contact Information	No. of Buses	Context/Success of Deployment
Denver Regional Transportation District (RTD)	1600 Blake Street Denver, CO 80202 303-628-9000	1,335	Use of AVL, combined with an upgrade in the radio communications system and MDTs, improved on-time performance and incident-response and increased ridership. High costs.
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA)	2424 Piedmont Road Atlanta, GA 30324-3311 404-848-5000	556	Use of AVL and CAD resulted in operating savings and data collection, but high implementation costs.
Ann Arbor Transportation Authority	2700 S. Industrial Hwy. Ann Arbor, MI 48104 734-973-6500	82	Deployed integrated AVL-CAD, MDT, remote diagnostics, and silent alarms on fleet in stages. Improved on-time departures, but not arrivals. Initially, major errors in vehicle location data.
County of Lackawanna Transit	North South Rd. Scranton, PA 18504 570-346-2061	32	Deployed basic AVL system in about 9 months.