e-Transit: Electronic Business Strategies for Public Transportation Volume 2. Application Service Provider Implementation Guidelines

摘要

TCRP Report 84: e-Transit: Electronic Business Strategies for Public Transportation documents principles, techniques, and strategies that are used in electronic business strategies for public transportation. TCRP Report 84 will be published as multiple volumes; Volume 2: Application Service Provider Implementation Guidelines presents the results of an investigation into the use of application service providers (ASPs) and thin client computing technologies by transit agencies. The characteristics and market position of ASPs were investigated, and the strengths and weaknesses of this computing service model were identified. A similar investigation of thin client computing was conducted and reported in this volume. This report may be used by senior managers, operations managers, maintenance managers, customer service managers, and schedulers.