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Title: TCRP Research Report 201: Understanding Demographics, Preferences, and Locations Influencing the Future of Public Transportation: Multidisciplinary Study of Factors that Affect the Markets for Transit
Accession Number: 01705735
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: Different demographic groups respond differently to common sets of transportation options. This was the topic of research explored in Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Report 201 which examined the impact of demographics, location, and preferences on public transportation ridership levels. The authors took a multidisciplinary approach using concepts from planned behavior and market research procedures to create a structural equations model and a multinomial logit travel demand model. A sample of 3,500 people from surveys conducted in 2014 and 2016 was analyzed for age categories, neighborhood types, and attitude-based market segments. An integrated choice latent variable model augmented travel times and costs with attitudes and preferences, demographic categories, and locational characteristics. Researchers found that the distance to the nearest bus stop increases consistently by age group, and the distance to the nearest commercial or village center increases similarly. Additionally, the study’s analysis has demonstrated that age is a dominant explanatory factor—not only by acting through the intermediate variable of location. For example, the study’s analysis revealed that, for any given level of neighborhood transit accessibility, the younger traveler will choose transit more often than the older traveler. In the hypothetical case in which all age categories adopted the attitudes of those under 30, transit ridership would increase by 5%.
Language: English
Authors: Coogan, Matthew APagination: pp 43-48
Publication Date: 2019-3
Serial: Media Type: Digital/other
Features: Figures; Photos; References
TRT Terms: Identifier Terms: Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: May 15 2019 9:49AM
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