Publication Date

Summer 1997

Degree Type

Master's Project

Degree Name

Master of Urban Planning (MUP)

Department

Urban and Regional Planning

Abstract

The role of public transit is manifold, ranging from providing congestion relief, to ensuring that land use and urban aesthetics are improved, from reducing energy consumption: and environmental pollution to solving the problem of mobility and addressing urban poverty. In addition to meeting all these goals, transit operators are expected to increase ridership, reduce fares and run efficient services. There is widespread agreement that transit performance should be evaluated although there is not much consensus on why, how or what aspect of transit performance ought to be evaluated.

This report explores the possibility of using GIS and US Census data to evaluate how transit is performing with regard to serving the population dependent upon it for its mobility.

Part I of this report provides some background information and contains three sections:

Section A describes the traditional performance measures used by transit agencies to evaluate their system/ routes.

Section B describes the factors that indicate transit dependency.

Section C includes a brief introduction to GIS and the US Census data and their use in transit planning.

Part II of this report is a case study conducted to develop transit dependency measures for route performance analysis using GIS and Census data.

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