BART IMPACT PROGRAM: ANALYSIS OF PRE-BART URBAN RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENT SURVEY

This report presents an analysis of a 1972 home interview survey of 2,541 persons living near BART, after most of the system's construction but before its operation. Most of the survey dealt with anticipated rather than actual impacts, although perceived impacts of the system's construction were included. The analysis emphasized tests of the significance of relationships between perceived (or anticipated) BART environmental impacts and hypothesized determinants of those perceptions including specific characteristics of BART, its physical setting, and the respondents themselves. Results of the analysis included the finding that most residents had very favorable attitudes and expectations regarding BART's effects on them. Variations in these responses tended to be related mainly to the respondent's distance from BART and his or her plans to make use of the system.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared in cooperation with DeLeuw, Cather and Co. and Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C.
• Corporate Authors:

  Metropolitan Transportation Commission

  Hotel Claremont
  Berkeley, CA  United States  94705

  De Leuw, Cather and Company

  120 Howard Street
  San Francisco, CA  United States  94120

  Department of Housing and Urban Development

  451 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20410

  Department of Transportation

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1976-3

Media Info

• Pagination: 63 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Communities; Environmental impacts; Expected value; Interviewing; Public opinion; Public relations; Rapid transit; Surveys
• Identifier Terms: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
• Geographic Terms: California
• Old TRIS Terms: Expectation; Rapid transit railways
• Subject Areas: Environment; Public Transportation; Railroads; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00144021
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-BIP-WP-24-4-76 Work Paper
• Contract Numbers: DOT-OS-30176
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 15 1982 12:00AM