ATTITUDE SURVEYS, TRANSIT PLANNING, AND AUTOMOBILE-USE CONSTRAINTS

This paper summarizes the procedures, findings, and implications of an attitudinal survey of existing and potential transit users. Employees at work places having different levels of transit accessibility and different industry classifications were sampled about (a) the characteristics of a desirable transit service, and (b) the conditions under which they would use such a service. The approach used here appears to be more cost-effective and more accurate than the traditional home interview or busrider attitude and market-research studies and was useful in market segmentation for transit-system planning purposes. Radical differences were found between transit users and nonusers in regard to acceptable transit-service levels. Even with a level of service acceptable to non-users of transit, most automobile drivers conditioned a change of regular modes of travel to work on motor-fuel supply restraints. /Author/

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• Authors:
  • Hoey, William F
  • Levinson, Herbert S
• Conference:
  • 56th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1977-1-24 to 1977-1-28
• Publication Date: 1977

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 1-4
• Monograph Title: Transit planning and operations
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 625
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Attitudes; Automobiles; Cost effectiveness; Data collection; Fuel consumption; Level of service; Mode choice; Surveys; Transportation planning; Work trips
• Old TRIS Terms: Modal selection; User characteristics
• Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00168060
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309026504
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Jan 30 1981 12:00AM