DIRECTIONS FOR TRANSIT: A REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE

In the Victoria area of BC, a study has been completed of total transportation requirements over the next 20 years which provides a useful perspective for the future role of transit. The travel forecasting and costing process has provided for the first time an analysis of present and future costs of transportation borne by three levels of government and by residents of the region as users of the system. One of the major findings of the transportation cost assessment is that little or no economic benefit can be established for further long-term region-wide expansion of the transit system in the Victoria metropolitan area. An examination of present transit and automobile costs at the household level emphasizes the high cost of providing transit service. Increased automobile ownership, suburbanization and public and political attitudes towards transit are some of the factors that have contributed to the changing role of transit. The decline of transit economic advantage is discussed in terms of historic cost trends and in comparison to other transportation costs. Determined efforts to minimize cost increases and to improve productivity in the transit system are needed to reverse the current trends and to maintain or improve the area of effective transit advantage. Only then an expanded role of transit can be justified. (Authot/TRRL)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the 1982 Roads and Transportation Association of Canada Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)

  401-1111 Prince of Wales Drive
  Ottawa, Ontario  Canada 
• Authors:
  • LANGLEY, D W
  • CHERIAN, V
• Publication Date: 1982-9

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 26 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile ownership; Benefit cost analysis; Conferences; Evaluation and assessment; Forecasting; Public transit; Transportation planning; Travel demand; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Use
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• ITRD Terms: 8018: Canada; 8525: Conference; 226: Cost benefit analysis; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 132: Forecast; 744: Public transport; 9084: Use
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00382778
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 30 1984 12:00AM