SUMMARY EVALUATION OF THE HADDONFIELD DIAL-A-RIDE DEMONSTRATION

The Haddonfield, New Jersey Dial-A-Ride demonstration was instituted in February 1972 to determine public attitudes toward DRT, measure its public acceptance, evaluate its technical and economic feasibility, and measure the impacts of the DRT concept on the community. The purpose of the report is to summarize the preliminary evaluation of the Haddonfield demonstration in terms of what was learned from the experiment while attempting to achieve the stated objectives. The concept had favorable public acceptance, and the improvements in the system parameters, such as increase in service area, introduction of shuttle service, and reduction of fares, caused increases in ridership and productivity. Ridership, productivity, and quality-of-service parameters of the Haddonfield system compare favorably with DRT systems operating in other U.S. cities.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also PB-235 995.
• Corporate Authors:

  Mitre Corporation

  Westgate Research Park
  McLean, VA  United States  22101

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Mouchahoir, G E
• Publication Date: 1975-5

Media Info

• Pagination: 45 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Communities; Demonstration projects; Evaluation; Feasibility analysis; Impacts; Level of service; Operating costs; Paratransit services; Prices; Productivity; Public opinion; Quality control; Ridership; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Quality; Service; Services
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00094127
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: MTR-6926 Sumry Rpt., UMTA-VA-06-0012-75-1
• Contract Numbers: DOT-UT-500
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 29 1981 12:00AM