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Lec # Topics KEY DATES
1 Introduction: Transit Industry Status
2 Organizational Models in the US
3 Organizational Models in the UK Assignment 1 out
4 Experience with Contracting Models
5 Contracting with Private Providers
6 Measures of System Performance Term paper proposal due
7 Measures of System Performance (cont.)
8 Measures of System Performance (cont.) Assignment 1 due
9 National Transit Database
10 Strategic Management and Planning
11 Financing
12 Financing (cont.)

Guest Lecturer: Richard H. Doyle, Federal Transit Authority
13 Budgeting Assignment 2 out
14 Fare Policy and Technology

Guest Lecturer: Dan Fleishman, TranSystems
Term paper progress report due
15 Marketing

Guest Lecturer: Karla Karash, TranSystems
16 Labor: Critical Issues

Guest Lecturer: Fred Salvucci, MIT
17 Labor (cont.)
18 Strategies to Improve Labor Relations
19 Workforce Planning and Management Assignment 2 due
20 Workforce Planning and Management (cont.)
21 Safety and Security
22 Supervision and Control
23 Transit Maintenance

Guest Lecturer: Susan Altshuler, MBTA
24 Maintenance Planning and Management

Guest Lecturer: John Attanucci
25 Management Information Systems: Decision Support Systems
26 Term Paper Presentations Term paper due