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Title:

Impact of Public Transit Bus System Redesign on Baltimore City Public School Students

Accession Number:

01763798

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Baltimore City Public School System (BCPSS) follows an open choice model for middle and high schools, and student transportation is provided by the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA). Studies have shown that BCPSS students traveling by public transit have travel times longer than Baltimore residents' work commutes. Public transit routes are designed for access to jobs that were historically located?in the Central Business District (CBD) and not to serve students and schools which are more dispersed throughout the city. The objectives of this research is to evaluate the effect of the MTA transit service redesign on BCPSS students. This was achieved by performing a travel time analysis to schools pre and post network redesign and identifying residential locations (aggregated to traffic analysis zones (TAZs)) and school pairs with insufficient service based on key performance metrics.

Supplemental Notes:

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

Report/Paper Numbers:

TRBAM-21-03404

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

Authors:

Elgendi, Fathy
Lee, Young-Jae
Chavis, Celeste

Pagination:

26p

Publication Date:

2021

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 100th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2021-1-5 to 2021-1-29
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board; Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Web

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Baltimore (Maryland)

Subject Areas:

Passenger Transportation; Public Transportation; Society; Vehicles and Equipment

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2021 Paper #TRBAM-21-03404

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 23 2020 11:11AM