Uncover the Impacts of Coordinating Human Services Transportation -- One Study, Two Locations, and Three What-if Coordination Scenarios
Meeting the growing mobility needs of the transportation disadvantaged population with quality service and constrained by limited resources has been a challenge facing all transit providers, policy decision makers, and government agencies. While stakeholders generally agree that coordination can lead to service improvement and cost savings, there is a lack of information on potential coordination impacts at the local level to allow state and local stakeholders to make informed decisions. To address this knowledge gap, the authors collected and analyzed actual service data from two rural transit providers in North Carolina and South Carolina and ran multiple simulations based on different coordination scenarios. The objective of the study was to simulate and compare potential impacts of coordination on system performance and individual travelers under different coordination scenarios. This study revealed that coordination leads to enhanced system efficiency. Consistently in both case study areas, a higher degree of coordination, meaning a larger pool of trips with shared resources, results in improved overall system performance. The results show a reduction in both total revenue distance and total revenue hours ranging from 7 to 13% when comparing “some” coordination to “full” coordination. Additionally, the average number of passengers per revenue hour increased by approximately 10%. The study results also suggested that the impacts of coordination on individual travelers are inconclusive. The average trip time showed some variation in either direction moving from some coordination to full coordination scenarios.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP055 Rural Public and Intercity Bus Transportation. Alternate title: Impacts of Coordinating Human Services Transportation: One Study, Two Locations, and Three What-if Coordination Scenarios.
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Corporate Authors:
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Authors:
- Burnier, Carolina
- Jacobi, Amy
- Torng, Gwo-Wei
- Gross, Yehuda
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC
- Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
- Date: 2014
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Maps; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 14p
- Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Coordination; Decision making; Mobility; Quality of service; Simulation; Transportation disadvantaged persons; Travel time
- Geographic Terms: North Carolina; South Carolina
- Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01519305
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 14-3940
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Mar 24 2014 12:02PM