IMPLICATIONS OF SOCIAL AND SPATIAL TRENDS FOR TRANSIT OPERATIONS AND RESEARCH

Population trends and the continuing decentralization of employment, residence, and services add urgency to certain familiar transportation issues and cast others in a new light. This reading of the implications of a particular set of national social and spatial trends as reported by demographic and regional analysts examines their relation to such long-standing issues as the chronic deficits incurred by public transit serving dispersed demand, the inefficiencies of peak-period services, and the relatively low use of ridesharing as a work-trip mode. The multicentered configuration characterizing metropolitan areas today and in the future reveals the more uniform location of the transit dependent throughout metropolitan areas. Certain policy, research, and design implications are suggested: a shift in funding formulas from a fair-share basis to criteria for serving markets cost effectively; a physical infrastructure designed around transfer points for private ridesharing and paratransit and public transit; travel demand forecasting methods that explicitly consider two-worker, husband-wife households; estimates of the market for ridesharing that account for the cultural and social issues impeding its wider acceptance by both individuals and firms. The implications of two specific trends are examined (a) the relation between high rates of low-density population growth and transportation demand and (b) the relation between travel demand analysis and trends in household composition and labor-force participation.

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  • PERIN, CONSTANCE
• Publication Date: 1982

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• Media Type: Print
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 97-103
• Monograph Title: Urban public transportation planning issues
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 877
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Demographics; Equity; Paratransit services; Public transit; Ridership; Socioeconomic factors; Transportation planning; Urban transportation; Work trips
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00372424
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309034655
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Apr 29 1983 12:00AM