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Transportation investments have the potential to affect both mode choice and route choice for trip-making. The dense urban environment in Brooklyn, New York allows its residents to have choices both between modes and within modes, to eventually select a route. This paper tracks the changes to the transportation network and the decisions of its users that resulted from the implementation of the B44 Select Bus Service (SBS) in Brooklyn, and explores the connection between mode shift and route shift on the project corridors. The SBS implementation process involved a re-routing of the northbound bus, the removal of stops, a reconfiguring of street geometry, signal changes to intersections along the route, and the installation of bus bulbs with new bus shelters and off-board fare payment kiosks to make the bus faster and more reliable. The post-implementation data shows that the project realized its goals of making the B44 faster and gaining new ridership, while not having large detrimental effects on car travel in the area. The B44 SBS project demonstrates that a BRT project can change mode share along a corridor, whether by route shift or mode shift, to a more transit-friendly equilibrium, in a dense urban street environment.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP050 Standing Committee on Bus Transit Systems.

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16-4339

English

16p

2016

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Maps; Photos; References; Tables

Bus stops; Bus transit; Fares; Intersections; Modal shift; Routing; Urban areas

Brooklyn (New York, New York)

Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-4339

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 12 2016 5:55PM