First and Last Mile Assessment for Transit Systems
The First Mile Last Mile (FMLM) challenge garners significant attention as a means to assess the accessibility of the first leg to transit and the last leg from public transit. As a critical barrier to public transit accessibility, the challenge provides many opportunities to closely analyze conditions from the level of the transit station upwards to the level of the system-wide network. Its usefulness in contributing to the body of knowledge on barriers to transit access provides planners and researchers important information with implications in increasing ridership, transit efficiency, multimodal travel options, and accessible mobility. In this project, the authors propose a methodological framework for analyzing the FMLM problems by determining varying causes of poor public transit accessibility and identifying areas with immediate needs for improvements. The authors showcase the analytical framework using a transit network in the state of Utah operated by the Utah Transit Authority. The authors also conducted analysis on the impacts of reduced automobile use on personal and environmental health. As a companion product, a spreadsheet-based sketch planning tool is developed to estimate health cost savings as a result of mode shifts from private automobiles to active transportation options.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
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Corporate Authors:
University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
110 South Central Campus Drive, Room 2115
Salt Lake City, UT United States 84112 North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND United States 58108Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
University Transportation Centers Program
Department of Transportation
Washington, DC United States 20590Utah Transit Authority
200 South 669 West
Salt Lake City, UT United States 84101 -
Authors:
- Liu, Xiaoyue Cathy
- Porter, Richard J
- Zlatkovic, Milan
- Fayyaz, Kiavash
- Taylor, Jeffrey
- Publication Date: 2018-5
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 45p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Accessibility; Automobile travel; Environmental impacts; Evaluation and assessment; Health; Modal shift; Public transit; Savings
- Identifier Terms: Utah Transit Authority
- Geographic Terms: Utah
- Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01675111
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: MPC 18-347
- Contract Numbers: Project 466
- Files: UTC, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
- Created Date: Jul 18 2018 9:51AM