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Title:

TRANSIT USE AND ENERGY CRISES: EXPERIENCE AND POSSIBILITIES

Accession Number:

00371333

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/0309033748

Abstract:

A representative sample of 66 urbanized areas is used to examine the relation between gasoline supply and transit ridership during the second and third quarters of 1979. An overview of the effect of the 1979 gasoline shortfall on transit ridership indicates that ridership increased by 5.1 percent in the time frame of the study over the corresponding period in 1978. The largest percentage increases in ridership were seen in western U.S. urbanized areas and small urbanized areas. Cross elasticities of transit ridership with respect to gasoline supply and calculated for various categories broken down by region and system size. The measure used for this calculation is arc elasticity. Cross elasticities vary from -0.45 for large systems in the Northeast to -4.99 for small systems in the West, and the cross elasticity for the entire sample is found to be -0.75. The role of transit in alleviating the impact of the 1979 energy crisis is found to be minor: Gasoline savings due to transit patronage increases amounted to less than 5 percent of the decrease in gasoline sales. Methods of calculating ridership increases and gasoline savings attributable to transit for a variety of energy futures are developed. The results indicate that transit cannot be expected to play a major role in a future energy emergency. (Author)

Supplemental Notes:

Publication of this paper sponsored by Committee on Energy Conservation and Transportation Demand.Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

Monograph Accession #:

00380410

Report/Paper Numbers:

HS-035 230

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Boyle, Daniel K

Pagination:

pp 16-21

Publication Date:

1982

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 870
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

Conference:

61st Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board

Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
Date: 1982-1-18 to 1982-1-22

ISBN:

0309033748

Media Type:

Print

Features:

References (27) ; Tables (8)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Energy crisis; Transit services

Subject Areas:

Economics; Energy; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I10: Economics and Administration

Files:

HSL, TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Mar 31 1983 12:00AM

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