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Welcome to TransitWiki.org
TransitWiki.org is developed and maintained by transit planners for transit planners. The goal of the site is to facilitate information transfer among California's transit agencies to accelerate the successful implementation of cost-effective strategies to improve transit service. On this site you'll find basic information about strategies, examples of their implementation, and links to reports and guidance from the American Public Transportation Association, the Transit Cooperative Research Program, University Transportation Centers, Caltrans, and local agencies.
TransitWiki.org was originally created by the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies and funded by the Caltrans Division of Mass Transportation's Statewide Transit Strategic Plan project. UCLA and Caltrans maintain no responsibility for site content contributed after September 27, 2012.
Getting Started
This Alpha version is a draft version of a site that will be finalized in September. The draft version is incomplete, but is meant to sketch an example of the final resource so that Caltrans staff and other project stakeholders may provide feedback. Only the featured articles listed below have been completed to near-final versions. The remaining content on the site serves as placeholders.
Finding Information
The site has two navigation options: a hierarchical category tree and a web of links between articles
- Hierarchical browsing by category:
- Category:Capital planning and project delivery - cost-effective strategies for major investments
- Category:Operations planning - strategies to improve operating performance
- Category:Transit system management - managerial strategies affecting transit agencies, including fare restructuring and outsourcing.
- Category:Coordination - measures which require significant coordination with external agencies and actors
- Try web-style navigation by starting at one of the featured articles
- Fare reform
- Contracting transit operations
- Streetcar alternatives
- Automated fare media
- California Vanpool Authority
- Value-capture finance
- Category:Reduce dwell time - an example of a category page with content
- External resources
- Check out this Directory of transit agencies in California (from Transit Unlimited)
- Public Transport resources on Wikipedia
- Streetswiki for pedestrian & bike strategies.
Updates for Authors
- 6/12 - site transferred to transitwiki.org
- 4/5 - Spring quarter kick-off meeting at Lewis Center Conference Room - meeting invite via email
- 3/28 - Thank you for continuing to add and edit content
- 3/7 - Major work session
- 2/14 - Updated Help:Contents to improve guidance for adding or editing content, pages, and categories. Have a question? Ask it on Help talk:Contents.
- 2/13 - Before creating a new page or category, please expand and look at the site trees for Category:Internal strategies and Category:External strategies
- 2/9 - Please work on converting outline the to Wiki form.
- 2/9 - The site is based on the same system as Wikipedia. They have extensive tutorials[1] on how to edit Wiki pages.
Help with the Wiki
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