People-Focused and Near-term Public Transit Performance Analysis
Public transit ridership forecasts have long played a role in understanding the potential success of a policy or investment, but their limitations have led researchers and practitioners to identify other performance analysis approaches. Accessibility, or the ease of reaching opportunities, has become very popular and widely used for this purpose. But commonly used accessibility measures also embody weaknesses that are seldom acknowledged; these limit their utility for truly understanding the benefits of transit investments. In this paper, the authors identify the pros and cons of these competing approaches and offer a third strategy. Specifically, they describe how revealed travel behavior data, potentially combined with near-term forecasts, can provide information about how current public transit users will be affected by a new project. While acknowledging the limitations of this approach, they demonstrate how accessibility can be misleading when applied without an understanding of ridership patterns.
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Supplemental Notes:
- © 2021 Alex Kramer.
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Authors:
- Karner, Alex
- Publication Date: 2022
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: Appendices; Figures; References;
- Pagination: 100019
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Serial:
- Journal of Public Transportation
- Volume: 24
- Issue Number: 0
- Publisher: University of South Florida, Tampa
- ISSN: 1077-291X
- EISSN: 2375-0901
- Serial URL: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/jpt/
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Open Access (libre)
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Access; Analysis; Human factors; Performance measurement; Public transit; Travel behavior
- Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01829773
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Dec 10 2021 11:40AM