CAB AND RIDE DEMONSTRATION PROJECT EVALUATION. DRAFT DEMONSTRATION EVALUATION PROJECT APPENDICES I-VII

The Cab & Ride demonstration project in Franklin County, Ohio, was a cooperative venture between the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC-the MPO), the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA-the RTA), and United Transportation, Inc. (private operator of Yellow Cab). The main objective of the project was to evaluate the use and effectiveness of taxi feeder service as an auxiliary to current fixed-route bus service in suburban areas of metropolitan Columbus, Ohio. Cab & Ride was designed as a peak hour subsidized paratransit service to demonstrate how feeder service can effectively serve suburban residential areas where conventional transit service cannot operate efficiently because of low residential densities or suburban sprawl. This report evaluates such issues as implementation, ridership, travel impacts, marketing and others. It singles out the labor issue as having the greatest impact on the project. Opposing viewpoints held by representatives of the local transit union and MORPC illustrated the problems of interpreting 13 (c) in the transit industry and the potential barriers implementation of policies regarding private sector participation and use of paratransit. Based on demonstration results, the report states that to avoid high operational and capital costs, feeder service should be provided by taxis and not by vans or small buses. Survey data indicated that the service area population in this demonstration was characterized by upper income households with available automobiles and a low tendency to use public transportation even when offered on a door-to-door basis. The appendix to this report contains documentation papers such as contract, request for proposal, ride spreadsheets, and surveys.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • A companion report is the Project Evaluation report number UMTA-OH-06-0039-87-1.
• Corporate Authors:

  Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission

  285 East Main Street
  Columbus, OH  United States  43215-5272

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1987-7

Media Info

• Features: Tables;
• Pagination: v.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus transit; Demonstration projects; Feeder services; Fixed routes; Labor unions; Paratransit services; Private enterprise; Residential areas; Ridership; Socioeconomic factors; Suburbs; Taxicabs
• Old TRIS Terms: Bus services; Cab and ride
• Subject Areas: Economics; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00474145
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: UMTA-OH-06-0039-87-2
• Contract Numbers: UMTA-OH-06-0039
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Oct 31 1987 12:00AM