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This paper describes how a bus stop measuring system can be developed not only to achieve transit operation efficiency, but also to proactively collaborate with urban planners and traffic engineers on transit/land use interface activities. The measuring system is developed by identifying transit performance variants at the bus stop level, using a dynamic composite weighting factor approach on a GIS platform. A “tier structure framework ” is used to categorize the composite scores of bus stops into six groups. Specific transit improvement actions are then tailored based on their bus stop characteristics. Two project application examples are presented in this paper. One is a bus stop thinning project for speed improvement, and the other is for prioritizing capital project improvements. As various “Active Transportation Programs ” (ATP) emerge to encourage local jurisdictions to plan transit connectivity with other community gathering places, this bus stops measuring approach presents a continued process to monitor their performance. It is also used to strengthen integration with other street improvement activities, including pedestrian paths an