The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) embarked on a research program entitled “Efficient Deployment of Advanced Public Transportation Systems” (EDAPTS) in the late 1990’s. The Bronco Express EDAPTS Stage 5 Deployment Demonstrationproject at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) is an integral part of this program. Its objective is to go through the procurement and deployment process of a low cost Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) solution to determine if the EDAPTS concepts are optimized for small transit agencies and if they can be successfully transitioned to the commercial marketplace.

This report documents the installation, verification, and validation steps associated with the Bronco Express EDAPTS Demonstration project. It identifies and summarizes procedures that are effective in installing and testing a lower-cost ITS system and provides a practical methodology for verifying and validating small transit ITS systems. It also documents outcomes of the installed system in compliance with the user needs and the performance specifications as requested in the Bronco Express EDAPTS RFP.

The Efficient Deployment of Advanced Public Transportation Systems (EDAPTS) demonstration at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona assessed the viability of using the EDAPTS procurement, installation, verification, and validation processes in a small transit environment to reduce the cost of ownership for technology solutions. Modified Systems Engineering processes were used to deploy an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) solution on the Cal Poly Pomona Bronco Express campus bus system. This report provides a summary of methodologies used, outcomes, findings, recommendations and lessons learned stemming from the demonstration.

The report explains the use of a modified version of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Systems Engineering “V-model” that helped the research team and stakeholders coalesce with a common understanding of expectations of what the procured system needed to do. The EDAPTS procurement process used by Bronco Express demonstrated a practical procurement and bidding methodology useful to small and medium transit agencies when acquiring ITS solutions. It also summarizes procedures that are effective for installing and testing lower-cost ITS systems and provides a practical methodology for verifying and validating them. Lastly, it compares the results with the original user needs and the performance specifications requested in the Bronco Express EDAPTS RFP.