TRANSIT RIDERSHIP FORECASTING - A MICROCOMPUTER APPLICATION

This article describes the advantages and disadvantages of implementing transit ridership forecasting techniques on microcomputers, taking into account necessary and desirable simplifications and modifications. One model, which has been successfully implemented on a microcomputer, will be presented as an indication of the considerations involved. Forecasting transit ridership can be accomplished by a variety of methods of varying degrees of sophistication. For example, elasticities have been estimated between ridership and a large number of travel factors including fare and headway. With these elasticities, the effects of fare and headway changes on an existing route can be quickly and roughly estimated. Other techniques, which assume ridership is proportional to the number of dwelling units in the service area, enable calculation of impacts of route extensions.

Media Info

  • Features: References;
  • Pagination: p. 297-310
  • Serial:

Subject/Index Terms

Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00389788
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Oct 30 1984 12:00AM