SECTION 2. APTS DEPLOYMENT BY TRANSIT AGENCY IN THE UNITED STATES' 78 LARGEST METROPOLITAN AREAS

Table 2 presents the information collected by Oak Ridge National Laboratory/SAIC for transit agencies residing in jurisdictions of 50,000 persons or more within the 78 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. A total of 221 transit agencies were surveyed. All of these agencies which have installed, or are planning to install, any of the APTS elements are listed in the Table. As indicated in the Legend, entries enclosed by brackets signify elements either in the implementation or planning stage and are expected to be operational by the year 2005. All other entries indicate operational elements.

The agencies are arranged alphabetically, first by state and then by agency name. Table 2 also lists the number of vehicles operated by each agency (directly or by contract) in each service type. However, the APTS element is not necessarily installed on every vehicle in the service type for which it is operational or planned.

As mentioned in the Introduction, after the long survey form failed to achieve an adequate response, a shorter form was used. This short form eliminated several pieces of information obtained via the long form. Since partial information would not convey the correct level of deployment for all transit agencies in the 78 largest metropolitan areas, the APTS categories for which information was not obtained in both the long and short survey forms are not included in Table 2. Further, the short form did not solicit the service type for the APTS elements of Advanced Communications or Advanced Transit Information. In these instances, the APTS deployment status is listed for the agency as a whole and not by service types. Table 2 also covers fewer APTS elements than Table 3 for reasons discussed in the Introduction.