Marketing Research Paper

Showcasing Research Paper Showcasing Research Paper | |How to Market an After-Hours STS Service | |MGT 5019 Summer 2011 | | | |8/8/2011 | | Showcasing Need In many networks across the country, access to open travel during late-night or early-morning hours is restricted, best case scenario. Many travel suppliers, particularly those working in littler networks, just offer types of assistance through the early night hours. In different networks, transportation administrations end at or before 1:00 a.m. Among the 11 enormous metropolitan travel frameworks that offer both substantial rail and transport services,(Atlanta, Ga.; Baltimore, Md.; Boston, Mass.; Chicago, Ill.; Cleveland, Ohio; Los Angeles and San Francisco, Calif.; Miami Fla.; New York, N.Y.; Philadelphia, Pa.; and Washington, D.C), 9 give after-12 PM benefits on weeknights and ends of the week on probably a few courses. However how are administration needs met in different networks? In numerous networks, travel offices have actualized late-night administrations intended to meet the transportation needs of evening bar goers and socialites. Late-night administration will intend to address the issues of individuals who wish to go out and make some great memories and not need to stress over driving drunk. At this moment, the main alternatives for individuals who visit a bar are that they need to drive under the influence, ride with a companion or flag down a taxi. Flagging down a taxi in our general vicinity isn't troublesome yet can be expensive and you may need to stand by a long time before really returning home. Riding with a companion is fine yet at the same time more than likely the individual driving will have a beverage or two and wind up driving impaired. This leads us to the requirement for an open transportation administration that takes into account the socialites and bar goers. The proposition isn't for another business, yet rather to broaden the St. Mary’s County transport administration previously being given through St. Mary’s Transit System (STS). Current Product The STS is the open transportation framework in St. Mary’s County, it is a division of the County Department of Public Works. The statement of purpose of STS is â€Å" To give sheltered, reliable and savvy transportation to our clients and portability for all residents†. The STS gives fixed course, ADA paratransit, and office contract administration all through the district. The fixed course administration is an arrangement of giving open transportation on which a vehicle is a since quite a while ago set course as per a fixed calendar. Paratransit is a progressively adaptable method of open of open transportation that doesn't follow fixed courses or calendars. STS utilizes this type of administration to give transportation to crippled individuals who can't utilize fixed course transportation. Offices, for example, the Health Department, the Department of Aging, and the Department of Social administrations will regularly contract for STS administrations. STS runs eight fixed courses on weekdays by and large from 6:00am to 6:00pm. The eight fixed courses on the weekdays are the accompanying: 1. Lexington Park/Leonardtown, 2. Charlotte Hall, 3. Extraordinary Mills, 4. Leonardtown Loop, 5. Highway 5 Express, 6. Calvert Connection, 7. Northern Route, and 8. Southern Route. The essential