STRATEGY FOR IMPLEMENTING INTEGRATED REGIONAL TRANSIT

The recent desire for expanded urban public transportation generated by increased environmental and energy awareness and by the negative impact of extensive freeway construction has increased interest in the more efficient use of existing transportation facilities and in finding more cost-effective means of improving and expanding public transit service. A promising solution to these problems is in restructured conventional and paratransit services that are operated as comprehensive regional transit systems integrated operationally, physically, and institutionally. This paper examines the implications of embarking on a 10-year strategy to implement such a system. Three levels of ridership response are assumed, and their effects on system scale and operating policy descisions at biennial intervals are studied. The operating cost and deficit implications of these three response levels are then traced, yielding insight into the feasibility of an evaluationary strategy. It is concluded that, if a high ridership response results, the dual goals of expanded and improved transit service and reduced operation deficits can both be accomplished. /Author/

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• Authors:
  • Sobel, Kenneth L
  • Batchelder, James H
• Conference:
  • 56th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1977-1-24 to 1977-1-28
• Publication Date: 1977

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 27-31
• Monograph Title: Transit planning and operations
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 625
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cost effectiveness; Energy; Environment; Level of service; Operating costs; Paratransit services; Policy; Regional transportation; Ridership; Urban transportation
• Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00168066
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309026504
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Jan 30 1981 12:00AM