Case Study: NJ Transit

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Located in Newark, New Jersey Transit was founded by New Jersey Department of public transportation from the act of 1979, its mission to provide safe, reliable, convenient service with a skilled team of employees, dedicated to Customers’ needs and committed to excellence. NJ Transit purchased the largest private bus company to operate, later added the rail road operations. In 1984, both department of the organizations merge with NJ Transit Mercer to establish a combined organization with the common objective to provide mass transportation.
NJ Transit services extends to major points in the North Eastern area from New Jersey to New York and Philadelphia, a wide range of 5,325 square miles. It is well-known as the nation’s third largest buses
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In addition to, 7 voting members, 4 are from the general public and three state officials. To encourage diversity, one non-voting member of the board is recommended by the labor of organization. The agency Select an executive director to manage the entire agency, plus a chief operating officer to coordinate daily operations. Moreover, the organization utilizes an active representation by acting on behalf of the public to make final decisions; as well as a passive representation by allowing two transitory advisory committees to provide input from the public. Both, the North Jersey advisory committee and the South Jersey committee constitutes fourteen unsalaried members each, where the North Jersey committee members serve a four year terms and the South Jersey committee serves a three year terms. The board schedules open meetings for the public to attend followed in an orderly fashion: a call to order, Safety announcement, pledge allegiance to the flag, approval of minutes of previous meetings, public comments on agenda items on other matters, advisory committee report, senior citizen and disabled residents transportation advisory committee report, board committee report, then executive director monthly reports and adjournment. (NJ Transit, …show more content…
The agency projects extends from building more bus stops with seats with heating system for the winter, repairing emergency ventilation fans, raising signal equipment and bridges to sustain another super storm like Sandy if it occurs. According to NJ Transit’s annual report, 94.4% of rail, 90.7% bus, and 98.1% light rail meet the on the time performance mode. To measure its on-time performance, the agency use a data base from a main frame computer to generate report and analysis. Typically a train is considered late if it arrives or departs five minutes and 59 seconds later than its scheduled time. As for the bus, the same rule applies and the conductor is responsible to record the cause of the delay, whether its traffic, weather related

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