BART'S (BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT'S) FIRST FIVE YEARS: TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL IMPACTS

A final report is presented assessing the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) on transportation and travel in California. The 71 - mile BART began passenger service in 1972. The final section, the transbay link between San Francisco and Oakland, opened in 1974. Ridership has grown to about 140,000 passenger trips per day, 60,000 of them transbay. BART's ridership and impacts have been less than predicted, which reflects the optimism of the predictions and the shortcomings of BART's current service. As intended, BART's most significant improvements in travel times have been for long - distance trips by transit, particularly transbay, to downtown San Francisco. BART carries 21 percent of transbay commuter trips. Areawide, BART's share of trips for all purposes is between 2 and 3 percent. Total bus ridership has changed little because the loss of riders from services paralleling BART has been offset by the use of buses to get to and from BART. Impacts on San Francisco - Oakland Bay bridge traffic have been less than expected, because new trips by car have appeared to replace those removed by BART. Implications for planning rail transit elsewhere are drawn.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Also pub. as Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC. rept. no. HUD-0001644. Prepared by Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co., San Francisco, CA.
• Corporate Authors:

  Metropolitan Transportation Commission

  Ashby Avenue and Domingo Avenue
  Berkeley, CA  United States  94705

  Department of Transportation

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Department of Housing and Urban Development

  451 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20410
• Authors:
  • SHERRET, A
• Publication Date: 1979-4

Media Info

• Pagination: 261 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Feeder buses; Passenger transportation; Passengers; Rapid transit; Ridership; Statistical analysis; Transportation planning; Travel demand; Travel patterns; Urban transportation
• Identifier Terms: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
• Geographic Terms: California
• Old TRIS Terms: Rapid transit railways
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00326473
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-P-30-79-08 Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: DOT-OS-30176
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Feb 6 1982 12:00AM