A CASE BOOK OF SHORT-RANGE ACTIONS TO IMPROVE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Short-range public transportation improvements--actions which can be fully operational within one or two years--cover a wide range of service alternatives and administrative options. Over the past decade UMTA has funded research and demonstration projects to test a variety of such actions. This volume focuses on three different travel markets: Home-to-work journeys, special user group travel, and general-purpose travel. This report contains brief case studies summarizing the general features of each project; measuring its benefits, costs and cost-effectiveness using standard assumptions; and presenting the appraisals in standardized format. By physically restricting or pricing private automobile ownership, policymakers can provide a relative advantage to high-occupancy modes. Demographic trends suggest that future travel growth in most cities will be in medium-to low-density suburban areas, rather than in suburb-to-downtown corridors. Growing financial pressures will make it virtually impossible for policymakers to continue the transit service and pricing policies of the 1970s. Greater emphasis on short-range actions will require changes in the institutional framework for planning and decision-making.

• Record URL:
  • https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/419
• Corporate Authors:

  Urban Institute

  2100 M Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20037

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  Office of Management Research and Transit Service
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Kirby, R F
  • Miller, G K
• Publication Date: 1983-2

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: v.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Brokerage; Coordination; Paratransit services; Persons with disabilities; Ridesharing; Social service agencies; Taxicabs; Time duration; Transportation planning; Vanpools; Volunteers; Work trips
• Uncontrolled Terms: Short term; Subscription bus service
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00387667
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-I-84-15 Final Rpt.
• Files: NTL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 30 2003 12:00AM