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This study presents a time-varying transit patronage model, capturing the interaction between transit demand and land use patterns. This study considers how one might evaluate the transit demand changes by time of day with respect to land uses. Depending on a specific time of day, land uses (e.g., residential areas) can be also treated either as trip production (leaving home in the morning) or trip attractions (returning home in the afternoon). To determine transit ridership along a certain transit route, detailed land uses are examined in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan areas. Time-of-day count models are developed based on disaggregate data on parcel-level land uses and automatically collected farecard transactions, representing individuals’ movements. In this model, transit demand from farecard transaction data is considered as the dependent variable, and detailed land uses are used as explanatory variables. The model is able to explain the distribution of weekday boardings at a specific stop over time. This model can be used to manage and design effective transit services, such as increasing service along specific corridors.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP025 Public Transportation Planning and Development.

01470560

13-4055

English

17p

2013

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Data collection; Land use planning; Peak hour traffic; Ridership; Smart cards; Travel demand; Travel patterns; Weekdays

Minneapolis (Minnesota); Saint Paul (Minnesota)

Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-4055

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Feb 5 2013 12:47PM