Title VI Service Equity Analyses: Development of a Comprehensive Method for Quantifying Adverse Effects and Assessing Disparate Impacts of Transit Service Changes
The current practice for conducting service equity analyses of major service changes often falls short in providing transit agencies with a method that makes a proper assessment of potential adverse effects of a service change. This study develops an improved method for assessing disparate impacts and disproportionate burdens of a service change using population data and a transit supply metric. The developed method offers improvement by: (a) identifying a more comprehensive set of the population impacted by a service change, not only surveyed riders using the service in its existing configuration, or populations who reside within a certain geographic distance from the service; (b) quantifying adverse effects in relation to the level of transit service removed or added; and (c) accounting for the availability of alternative transit options that may act to mitigate the overall adverse effect of a service change. The developed methodology is applied to a hypothetical major service change within the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority rapid transit and Key Bus Route network, and results are compared to those obtained using current practice.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP025 Standing Committee on Public Transportation Planning and Development.
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Corporate Authors:
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Authors:
- Hart, Nicholas
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
- Date: 2017
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 20p
- Monograph Title: TRB 96th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Equity; Level of service; Public transit; Rapid transit; Regulations
- Identifier Terms: Civil Rights Act Title VI; Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
- Uncontrolled Terms: Adverse effects
- Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01626042
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 17-02131
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Feb 15 2017 5:03PM