This report supports manual data collection by creating printable sheets for recording passenger boards, alights, and onboard counts by trips within a block. Additionally, use these sheets to verify stop order, announcements, and other information during route validation. This process can be removed by your agency, if you are APC certified and using APC counts to report on ridership metrics.
This report is typically used for:
Ride checks and field audits
Schedule adherence review
Passenger count validation
Stop-level announcement verification
Operational performance analysis
To create the Ride Check Sheet report:
- Select your Transit Authority, the Date, and then the Block.
- Click Apply to display the Ride Check Sheet for that block of work.
Trips in the block are linked across the top of the report. Click the links to jump to that trip. The following example the number of jump links for trips across the top indicates that the full Ride Check Sheet for this block contains 20 trips.
Each trip section includes a detailed table with the following columns:
Stop Id - The unique identifier for the stop.
Stop Name - The name of the stop location.
Description - Additional descriptive information about the stop (often includes cross streets or direction details).
Timepoint - Indicates whether the stop is designated as a timepoint (Yes/blank).
STS Distance - Distance value associated with the stop (likely cumulative distance along the route).
STS Time - Time value associated with the stop (likely scheduled travel time from prior stop).
Scheduled Time - The scheduled arrival time at the stop.
Announcement Id - The ID and description associated with the stop’s external announcement.
Boards - Number of passengers boarding at the stop.
Alights - Number of passengers alighting at the stop.
Onboard - Running passenger count after the stop (calculated based on boards and alights).
Notes/Comments - Free-text field for ride check notes or operational comments.