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Title:

Types of Rail Transit Systems and the Movement of the College Educated into the Center of Large American Cities

Accession Number:

01625865

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

In this paper, the authors look at the association between three types of rail transit (light rail, heavy rail, and commuter rail) and the movement of the college-educated young into the central city of the 51 largest American Metropolitan areas. The authors describe eight possible transit system types based on combinations of heavy, light, commuter and bus transportation systems. They find that the presence of a light or heavy rail transit system in a city is associated with a statistically significant increase in the percent of the young college-educated living within three miles of the urban center. Commuter rail was not a significant predictor of an increase. Cities without rail service are significantly less likely to experience an increase in the percent of the young college educated living close-in.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADA20 Standing Committee on Metropolitan Policy, Planning, and Processes.

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-01694

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

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Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

O'Connell, Lenahan
Brock, Timothy J
Blandford, Benjamin
Yusuf, Juita-Elena (Wie)

Pagination:

11p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads; Society

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-01694

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 10:34AM