Research Request - Non-Revenue Vehicle Fleet Sizes

[evansiroky]

Research Question

Single sentence description: How do the Non-Revenue fleet sizes compare between transit agencies?

Detailed description: using the NTD data we're downloading into our warehouse, we should generate stats on how many Non-Revenue vehicles each transit agency has.

How will this research be used?

What will be achieved or informed? What is the intended impact?

Perhaps we can identify areas for potential cost savings.

Stakeholders & End-Users

Who is asking the question, and who is the audience?

Idea from Evan

Metrics

• Total number of Non-Revenue vehicles
• Number of Non-Revenue vehicles vs GTFS service hours
• Number of Non-Revenue vehicles vs NTD ridership

Data sources

• Cal-ITP data sources: GTFS, List of organizations

• External data sources: NTD Non-Revenue vehicles

• Remaining data source questions:

Deliverables

Notebook and/or dashboard. Potentially add to Statewide Transit Metrics Dashboard.

Timeline of deliverables

No due date