Increasing Transit Ridership: Lessons from the Most Successful Transit Systems in the 1990s, MTI Report-01-22

Authors

Brian D. Taylor, University of California, Los Angeles
Peter J. Haas, San Jose State UniversityFollow
Brent Boyd, University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel Baldwin Hess, University of California, Los Angeles
Hiroyuki Iseki, University of California, Los Angeles
Allison Yoh, University of California, Los Angeles

Description

This study systematically examines recent trends in public transit ridership in the U.S. during the 1990s. Specifically, this analysis focuses on agencies that increased ridership during the latter half of the decade. While transit ridership increased steadily by 13 percent nationwide between 1995 and 1999, not all systems experienced ridership growth equally. While some agencies increased ridership dramatically, some did so only minimally, and still others lost riders. What sets these agencies apart from each other? What explains the uneven growth in ridership?

Publication Date

6-1-2002

Publication Type

Report

Topic

Transit and Passenger Rail

MTI Project

2005

Mineta Transportation Institute URL

https://transweb.sjsu.edu/research/Increasing-Transit-Ridership-Lessons-Most-Successful-Transit-Systems-1990s

Keywords

Transit ridership, Transit buses, Transit fares

Disciplines

Transportation

Recommended Citation

Brian D. Taylor, Peter J. Haas, Brent Boyd, Daniel Baldwin Hess, Hiroyuki Iseki, and Allison Yoh. "Increasing Transit Ridership: Lessons from the Most Successful Transit Systems in the 1990s, MTI Report-01-22" Mineta Transportation Institute (2002).