KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES: RADIAL VS. MULTIDESTINATIONAL TRANSIT IN DECENTRALIZING REGIONS
Ever more dispersed travel patterns in modern U.S. urban areas raise questions about appropriate policy for fixed-route public transit, particularly rail transit. It has been argued that fixed transit routes should be radial, serving only regional central business districts and adjoining inner-city neighborhoods; however, others argue that fixed routes should be reconfigured as networks to serve only many regional destinations. This paper evaluates these 2 approaches with an examination of transit performance indicators in 9 urban regions, tabulated annually from time series data for 1983-1998. The public transit route configuration in 6 of the 9 regions follows the first approach. The configuration in the other 3 regions is multidestinational. Results of this examination, controlled for population, show that the multidestinational approach is more effective, and more equitable than the best of the radial approaches.
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Corporate Authors:
American Planning Association
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Authors:
- Thompson, G L
- Matoff, T G
- Publication Date: 2003
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 296-312
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Serial:
- Journal of the American Planning Association
- Volume: 69
- Issue Number: 3
- Publisher: American Planning Association
- ISSN: 0194-4363
- Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpa20/current
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Fixed routes; Radial travel; Rail transit; Regional development; Regional transportation; Transportation planning; Travel behavior; Travel patterns; Urban areas; Urban transit
- Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00960680
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, ATRI
- Created Date: Jul 29 2003 12:00AM