THE EFFECTS OF THE 1972 TRENTON, NEW JERSEY BUS STRIKE ON THE MODAL CHOICE OF THE COMMUTERS

The drivers of the Transport of New Jersey (TNJ) Bus Company declared a strike against their employer in 1972 for seventy-five days, leaving about 350,000 daily riders with the problem for finding alternate modes of transportation. The objectives of this report are to establish 'what happened' in modal use during the strike-related periods and to attempt to identify how location and passenger characteristics may or may not affect such strike-related modal use changes.

• Corporate Authors:

  Northwestern University, Evanston

  Department of Civil Engineering, 600 Foster Street
  Evanston, IL  United States  60208

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • BATA, A F
• Publication Date: 1974-6

Media Info

• Pagination: 120 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobiles; Bus transportation; Buses; Commuters; Economic impacts; Mode choice; Passenger transportation; Strikes; Theses; Travel demand; Travel patterns; Urban transportation
• Geographic Terms: New Jersey
• Old TRIS Terms: Modal selection
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Highways; Motor Carriers; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00136986
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: MA Thesis, UMTA-IL-11-0005-74-2
• Contract Numbers: DOT-UT-495
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 11 2003 12:00AM