THE DETERMINATION AND EVALUATION OF OBJECTIVE ACCESS TIMES TO PUBLIC TRANSIT FOR DISAGGREGATE TRAVELER BEHAVIOR MODELING

The paper investigates methods of overcoming the deficiency of zonal aggregate transit network data for representing local walk access variations. Alternative methods of determining transit access in a real setting are reduced to five, based on modifications of transit network coding procedures. These are evaluated by comparison with values from travelers' reports, bus time tables, and zonal networks. A method of manually coding alternative access links from known individual trip-ends to standard network nodes is found to give a four-to-one improvement in the resulting walk access variance of a trip sample compared to an interzonal representation access for the trips. Numerous other sources of differences between calculation methods and reports for all components of a transit trip were investigated.

• Corporate Authors:

  Metropolitan Transportation Commission

  Hotel Claremont
  Berkeley, CA  United States  94705

  Department of Transportation

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  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Department of Housing and Urban Development

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  Washington, DC  United States  20410

  University of California, Berkeley

  Berkeley, CA  United States  94720
• Authors:
  • REID, F A
• Publication Date: 1974-11

Media Info

• Pagination: 59 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Access; Analysis of variance; Bus lines; Bus transportation; Consumer behavior; Data collection; Demand; Disaggregate analysis; Distance; Networks; Public transit; Recommendations; Ridership; Statistical analysis; Surveys; Time; Transportation; Transportation planning; Travel; Travel patterns; Walking distance
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation networks
• Old TRIS Terms: Disaggregate models
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00090342
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: MTC-TM-10-15-74 Tech. Memo
• Contract Numbers: DOT-OS-30176
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 22 1981 12:00AM