00743129

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/1576-16

http://scholar.google.com...lson&publication_year=1997

Advocates of transit suggest that there are several important social benefits of transit systems--savings in pollution, congestion, and general social costs. Estimates of such savings have been limited to general comparisons with the personal occupancy vehicle (POV) mode usually on a vehicle-miles-traveled basis. Those savings are simulated in the context of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA). It is estimated that between 1980 and 1994, MARTA generated about $2.2 billion in total social cost savings by diverting POV riders to transit. Compared with the POV alternative, MARTA generates an average of about $107 million annually in savings to society even after considering society's subsidies to transit. Shortcomings of the analysis and policy implications are discussed.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1576, Financial, Economic, and Social Topics in Transportation.

English

p. 125-131

1997

Transportation Research Record

0309062055

References (14) ; Tables (7)

Alternatives analysis; Automobile travel; Case studies; Costs; Public transit; Social benefits

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority

Economics; Finance; Highways; Public Transportation; Society; I10: Economics and Administration

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Nov 14 1997 12:00AM

• BUYING TIME: INSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES IN CONGESTION RELIEF TOLLS
• COMPARISON OF TOLLING STRATEGIES FOR HIGHWAY 407 IN THE GREATER TORONTO AREA
• EVALUATION OF CONGESTION PRICING ALTERNATIVES IN THE TWIN CITIES
• EXCLUSIVE LANES FOR TRUCKS AND CARS ON INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS
• EXTENT TO WHICH USER FEES COVER ROAD EXPENDITURES IN THE UNITED STATES
• FEDERAL ALLOCATION FORMULAS: EVALUATION OF OPTIONS FOR INTERMODAL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION EFFICIENCY ACT REAUTHORIZATION
• INCENTIVE TOLLS FOR CONGESTION MANAGEMENT: A PLANNING TOOL FOR THE PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY
• INNOVATIVE FINANCING APPROACH FOR PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH TURNPIKE
• LONG-TERM HIGHWAY REVENUE FORECASTING FOR INDIANA
• MEASURING THE CONTRIBUTION OF TRANSPORTATION TO THE U.S. ECONOMY: U.S. TRANSPORTATION SATELLITE ACCOUNT
• MEASURING THE NEIGHBORHOOD BENEFITS OF RAIL TRANSIT ACCESSIBILITY
• MODELING THE INTERNALIZATION OF EXTERNAL COSTS OF TRANSPORT
• PASSENGER CAR EQUIVALENTS FOR HIGHWAY COST ALLOCATION
• REVIEW AND UPDATE OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION'S CASH FLOW FORECASTING MODEL
• SOCIAL COST COMPONENT OF AN EFFICIENT TOLL
• TRANSPORT DEMAND MANAGEMENT BY ELECTRONIC FEE COLLECTION IN A ZONE-BASED PRICING SCHEME: THE STUTTGART MOBILPASS FIELD TRIAL
• TRANSPORT STRATEGY FOR POLISH CITIES
• URBAN TRANSPORTATION POLICIES AND PRACTICES IN THE UNITED STATES AND ITS PEER COUNTRIES
• USE OF WORK GROUP TECHNOLOGY IN TRANSPORTATION AGENCIES: CURRENT EXPERIENCE AND OPPORTUNITIES