SUBURBAN TRANSIT PLANNING AND FORECASTING

Problems and policy issues of particular concern to suburban transportation planners are identified, including dispersed trip-making, high income and automobile ownership, low densities, significant transit- dependent population, increasing peak-hour freeway congestion, growth policy issues, and short-term availability of less expensive or nonunion labor. Experience in Orange County, 4 areas of Los Angeles County, and Chicago suburbs is discussed. Unique suburban approaches in the planning process are identified, and forecasting problems are discussed. For forecasting implications, 3 high-quality suburban-to-CBD transit services are compared with the range of calibration values for the LARTS model in southern California. Variables compared include the system characteristics in the marginal utility mode-choice model, socioeconomic characteristics of trip-makers, attitudes of trip-makers, and resultant trip-making behavior. The last category focuses on transit's market share, which appears to be a more appropriate planning statistic than the percentage of all trips using transit, as called for in mode-choice models. Some uniquely suburban transit organizational and planning process issues are discussed.

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• Authors:
  • Benson, Daniel E
• Conference:
  • 53rd Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1974-1-21 to 1974-1-25
• Publication Date: 1974

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 36-45
• Monograph Title: PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PLANNING ISSUES
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 519
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Automobile ownership; Behavior; Captive riders; Commuter service; Forecasting; Low density; Mathematical models; Mode choice; Passengers; Problem solving; Rapid transit; Regional planning; Socioeconomic factors; Suburbs; Traffic congestion; Transportation planning; Transportation policy; Travel demand; Trip distribution; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models
• Geographic Terms: Los Angeles (California)
• Old TRIS Terms: Behavioral objectives; Modal selection
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Railroads; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00095587
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309023645
• Report/Paper Numbers: No. 522
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Jul 2 1981 12:00AM