Economic Impact Analysis of Georgia’s Rural and Small Urban Transit Systems, Volume 2

On March 30, 2017, the Georgia Legislature passed House Resolution 848 to create a Commission on Transit Governance and Funding. The Commission’s mission is to “study and assess the needs for and means of providing a system of mass transportation…in the state and [identify] potential methods of funding such systems” (HR 848). Currently, the State of Georgia has 21 distinct Federal Transit Administration (FTA) grant recipients that provide transit service to 14 urban areas and 114 counties with rural populations. Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) is responsible for administering and providing oversite for FTA grants received by small urban areas with a population less than 200,000 and rural counties. The establishment of the Commission shines a spotlight on transit in Georgia. To justify additional funding for transit, the Commission will need information on the economic impact of the provision of transit services on the State’s economy. The final report for this project is divided into two volumes. Volume 1 quantifies these economic impacts in the rural and small urban areas that fall under GDOT’s responsibility. Volume 2 conducts an analysis of mobility and accessibility in rural areas in Georgia using a database of rural transit trips and provides a high-level assessment of costs of expanding and initiating service from 6 AM – 4 PM Monday through Saturday in all Georgia counties with rural populations. The analysis shows that expansion and initiation of service at the proposed level would increase ridership by 400,000 (or 38 percent from FY 2018 levels) and costs by $9M (or about 21 percent from FY 2018 levels). Further, many of the areas in which service would be initiated are in counties with the lowest levels of accessibilities.

• Record URL:
  http://g92018.eos-intl.net/eLibSQL14_G92018_Documents/18-14-%20Volume%202.pdf
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/57560
• Corporate Authors:

  Georgia Institute of Technology

  Atlanta, GA  United States  30332

  Georgia Department of Transportation

  Office of Performance-based Management and Research
  600 West Peachtree St. NW
  Atlanta, GA  United States  30308

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Garrow, Laurie A
  • Dhongde, Shatakshee
  • Wolfe, Andreas
  • Cunningham, James
• Publication Date: 2020-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 103p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Costs; Economic impacts; Mobility; Public transit; Ridership; Rural areas; Schedules and scheduling; Small cities
• Geographic Terms: Georgia
• Subject Areas: Economics; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01761965
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-GA-21-1814, RP 18-14
• Contract Numbers: PI#0016121
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jan 6 2021 11:50AM