MODE CHOICE AND THE SHIRLEY HIGHWAY EXPERIMENT

The project was designed to provide commuters with fast and reliable peak-period bus service to the three major employment areas of downtown D.C., Pentagon and the Northern Virginia Crystal City Complex. Elements are: (1) the busway, including exclusive land on Shirley Highway and bus-priority lanes in D.C.; (2) a bus transit operation with new buses, routes and schedules; (3) residential fringe parking facilities for bus riders. The objectives of the report are: (1) to determine and isolate those factors which influence the switch from auto to bus ridership, their relative importance and how they combine to produce the bus market share; (2) to see how the first objective could be satisfied in a fashion that would allow results to be generalized to other areas.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared by National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C. Technical Analysis Div.
• Corporate Authors:

  DTM, Incorporated

  Bethesda, MD  United States 
• Authors:
  • McLynn, J M
  • Goodman, K M
• Publication Date: 1973-11

Media Info

• Pagination: 155 p.

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00057387
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: C-3-35753
• Files: NTIS
• Created Date: Aug 28 1974 12:00AM