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Effective strategic planning in public transit systems

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  • Obeng, Kofi
  • Ugboro, Isaiah

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This paper identifies the characteristics of strategic planning systems of transit agencies that enhance these agencies' abilities to respond effectively to federal legislative requirements and mandates, and have positive community impacts. These characteristics are, each unit or division must develop its own action plan to be combined into a system-wide strategic plan, strategic planning should receive more than lip service from top and unit or division level managers, and it requires the involvement and commitment of top-level management. Additional characteristics are, strategic planning should be designed to have an external orientation, to focus on an organization's responsiveness to the demands of its customers, and it should focus on identifying and exploiting areas of future growth opportunities. Furthermore, it requires involvement of employees, and it must fit the management and decision-making styles of top-level managers.

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  • Obeng, Kofi & Ugboro, Isaiah, 2008. "Effective strategic planning in public transit systems," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 44(3), pages 420-439, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:transe:v:44:y:2008:i:3:p:420-439
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    1. Liang, Jinpeng & Wu, Jianjun & Qu, Yunchao & Yin, Haodong & Qu, Xiaobo & Gao, Ziyou, 2019. "Robust bus bridging service design under rail transit system disruptions," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 132(C), pages 97-116.
    2. Fthia Ramdan M. Abusafrita, 2016. "The Rate of Adoption of Strategic Marketing Planning (SMP) by the Libyan Commercial Banks (LCBs). An Exploratory Study," Athens Journal of Business & Economics, Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), vol. 2(1), pages 71-84, January.
    3. Nguyen, Hoa T.M. & Chow, Andy H.F. & Ying, Cheng-shuo, 2021. "Pareto routing and scheduling of dynamic urban rail transit services with multi-objective cross entropy method," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 156(C).
    4. Georgiana-Gabriela IACOBUTA, 2020. "Strategic Planning For The Development Of Public Transportation," Contemporary Economy Journal, Constantin Brancoveanu University, vol. 5(3), pages 130-133.

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