CONSIDERATION OF SPECIAL USER GROUPS IN REGULAR TRANSIT OPERATION AND FINANCE

Information from the Urban Mass Transportation Act Section 15 Reporting System and the Bureau of the Census was used as the data base for characterizing and evaluating regular transit services and funding for special user groups of the young, the elderly, the poor, minorities, and the carless. For the selected 101 urbanized areas, 32 relevant variables that reflect four distinct sets, transit resources per capita, transit services per capita, transit consumption per capita, and attributes of special user groups, were identified. After the variables accuracy and variability were assessed, correlation analysis revealed that transit resources per capita, transit services per capita, and transit consumption per capita are only 12 percent positively correlated with special user group attributes. For expedient assessment of attributes of special user groups in urban areas, a composite measure that reflects the overall status of the population of the young, elderly, the poor, minorities, and the carless was developed. Transit resources per capita, transit services per capita, and transit consumption per capita were found to be either negatively correlated or not significantly correlated with the composite measure. The results of correlation analyses revealed that transit funding and operations do not appear to create more egalitarian distribution of income and mobility. Such findings have not been previously addressed in transit literature. The composite measure is suggested for use as an index for planning for the use of transit funding and operations in addressing social equity issues.

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• Authors:
  • Vaziri, Manouchehr
• Conference:
  • 65th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1986-1-13 to 1986-1-16
• Publication Date: 1986

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 20-25
• Monograph Title: ISSUES IN PROVIDING MOBILITY FOR THE TRANSPORTATION HANDICAPPED
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1098
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Finance; Financing; Public transit; Special user groups; Transit vehicle operations; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transit services
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00473287
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0-309-04119-8
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Sep 30 1988 12:00AM