00387642

Component

http://onlinepubs.trb.org...s/trr/1983/931/931-001.pdf

https://scholar.google.co...+Rao&publication_year=1983

A transit mall combines transit preferential treatment with pedestrian oriented approaches. Pedestrian and transit uses are believed to complement each other. By combining the two, a special focus can be created in the downtown area that helps business, brings people together, improves bus services, creates an attraction that stimulates bus ridership by increasing the efficiency and capacity of moving buses through downtown, and possibly contributes to stimulating downtown development in a transit-supportive pattern, The Portland, Oregon, experience with a transit mall is described, user and provider impacts are assessed, and interactions between transportation and land use that can be achieved through investment in transit are examined. The results of the evaluation are summarized in a cost-benefit framework, and the benefit/cost ratio is found to be 2.29. The largest benefits with the mall, as compared with the anticipated stiuation had the mall not been built, accrue from savings in bus operating costs and modal shifts.

Publication of this paper sponsored by Committee on Urban Activity Systems. 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.

00392261

pp 1-6

1983

Transportation Research Record

0309036216

Print

References (7) ; Tables (2)

Benefit cost analysis; Bus lanes; Investments; Land use; Pedestrian areas; Ridership; Transit malls; Warranty

Warranties

Portland (Oregon)

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

TRIS, TRB

Sep 28 1984 12:00AM

• APPROACH TO TRANSPORTATION PLANNING FOR A HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM
• BENEFITS MATRIX MODEL FOR TRANSPORTATION PROJECT EVALUATION
• CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT, PARKING, AND TRANSIT TRADE-OFFS
• CAMPUS TRAFFIC AND PARKING PROBLEMS AND SOME SOLUTIONS
• CHALLENGES TO THE FUTURE OF URBAN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING
• DOWNTOWN RETAIL IN BOSTON: SOCIAL TRENDS AND IMPACT OF A PEDESTRIAN MALL
• EVALUATION OF THE TRANSFERABILITY OF TRIP GENERATION MODELS FROM ONE URBAN AREA TO ANOTHER
• INTERACTIVE NETWORK EDIT AND DISPLAY PROGRAM FOR THE APPLE II PERSONAL COMPUTER
• LAND USE-TRANSPORTATION ANALYSIS SYSTEM FOR A METROPOLITAN AREA
• LONG-RANGE TRANSPORTATION REVENUE FORECASTING
• MULTIPURPOSE TRAFFIC ASSIGNMENT USING VOLUME RESTRAINT AND LINK RESTRAINT FOR APPLICATION IN SMALL URBAN AREAS
• NEW FIXED-ROUTE BUS SERVICE IN A SMALL URBAN AREA
• RENAISSANCE FOR THE STATE TRANSPORTATION NEEDS STUDY
• REVENUE VERSUS NEEDS: AN ANALYTIC APPROACH
• SPATIAL AGGREGATION EFFECTS IN EQUILIBRIUM AND ALL-OR-NOTHING ASSIGNMENTS
• STATEWIDE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING IN MINNESOTA
• STATEWIDE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
• USE OF TOPAZ FOR TRANSPORTATION-LAND USE PLANNING IN A SUBURBAN COUNTY
• WORK LOCATION ESTIMATION FOR SMALL URBAN AND RURAL AREAS